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this post is my first time with English. I hope that my explanation more easier for reader.

In a structure building, especially steel structure. we should know how to calculate area. this is used
for us to calculate such as shear force, weldment area and others. it would be explain in next post.
apparently. ok let's start our discussion based on case.

There are risers hanging to jacket platform. Riser is a pipe that connects an offshore Floating
Production Structure or a Drilling Rig or Fix offshore structure to a sub-sea system either for
production purposes such as drilling, production, injection and export, or for drilling, completion and
workover purposes (Wikipedia.red). They are a key component for the offshore industry and
maintaining theri functionality is central to the success of the production system. Actually there are
3 types of riser clamp depend on function (as far i know), Fix clamp, adjustable clamp and hanger
clamp. we are now talking about fix clamp and hanger clamp because we look for the connection
that using weld connection.

during hanging the riser tie up with riser clamp, and among of them are connected with stub. the
connection between stub and riser are using clamp, and other side using weldment connection to
horizontal bracket. take a look to below for example figure.
 Ilustration Riser Clamp at Plan View

In a riser clamp system, at least there are 3 necessary components that is riser clamp, stub
and bracing where is will be connected. in figure above, plan view illustration from riser clamp
that we are talking about. alright we will see the connection stub and horizontal bracing,
section F.

Section F
Section F describe connection stub to horizontal bracing. the component consist of stub with
OD 6-5/8 " and 0.75 WT and stiffener with dimension rectangular (assume) 4"x0.5" there are
doubler plate between horizontal brace and stub, however we can ignore it.

how to calculate the area of them in Cad (as far i know, with cad, this exactly fastest way to
get area better than hand calculation.)

1. Open your CAD and drawing stiffener and Stub that we describe above

OD stub = 6-5/8" x 0.75 WT

Stiffener = 4"x1/2"
angle = 45 deg
 Dimesion
2. click command : UCS -> put in center of circular stub [enter/ok]

Location local UCS

3. click command : trim -> trim circular between inner
stiffener [enter/ok]
 after trimming
3. click command : PE -> M -> select all drawing except inner circular
[enter/ok]

click [y] in command convert lines, arcs, and splines to polylines

4. click command : PE -> M -> select all drawing except inner circular
[enter/ok]

click [J] in command enter an option (close/join/etc)[enter/ok] twice

4. click command : RE -> select all drawing [enter/ok]

5. click command : SU -> select DRAWING 1(OUTSIDE -CIRCULAR-AND

STIFFENER) [enter/ok] THAN SELECT DRAWING 2 (INNER CIRCULAR)
4. click command : MASSPROP -> select all drawing [enter/ok]

ok, congratulation you made it. if you wanna know that your assumption is correct, please check the
centroid. it should be zero, than you are able to make this output for your necessary action.

for exercise, you can click here for soft file

source :
http://www.afrizalr.com/2017/03/how-to-calculate-area-and-inertia.html