Abstract: The correlation of a pipe cooling finite element method(FEM) and a pipe cooling equivalent thermal conduction method is studied in this paper;the same set of FEM mesh is applied to simulate and analyze the unsteady temperature field and creep stress field,and comparatively analyze the concrete pouring surface average temperature,elastic strain energy as well as viscous strain energy calculated by the two kinds of pipe cooling calculation methods.The concrete average temperatures calculated by the pipe cooling equivalence thermal conduction method and FEM are close;the former one is the equivalent average of the latter one;but the temperatures of the same node for the two methods are different,and sometimes the difference is relatively great.Since the former one is the equivalent average of the temperature for the latter one,their elastic strain energy and viscous strain energy are close;but their strains of the same node are different,and sometimes the difference is also relatively great.