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Modeling
- OpenGL CAD graphics with toggle between single line, wire-frame, and solid render drawing modes
- CAD style floating view and component toolbars
- New Reference point for manufacturer equipment loading reports
- Dynamically zoom, pan, or rotate model capability with toolbar or mouse wheel and buttons
- Single, double, or quad view ports for CAD style work environment
- Graphical object technology with point and click capability for inserting, modifying, or deleting piping components
- Graphical model selections for cut, copy, or paste
- Interactive input spreadsheet grid synchronized with the plot for checking, sorting and editing model data
- Up to 20 thermal, 10 static and 10 each of dynamic load cases
- Automatic renumbering of point names
- Switch vertical axis (Y or Z) on the fly
- English, Metric, SI, and user-defined units with automatic
unit conversions
- Undo/Redo up to 99 operations
- Color-coded model view based on pipe identifiers, soil, temperatures, and pressures
- Library of temperature-dependent code material properties and allowable stresses for most piping codes
- ANSI/ASME, DIN, JIS, and GRP standard piping component libraries
- FRP and plastic pipe vendor libraries
- Customizable libraries for pipe components and materials
- Structural steel modeling using AISC standard structural steel library with nonlinear pipe/structure interaction
- Expansion joint modeling with tie rod assemblies
- Import models from AutoPLANT, PlantSpace, Intergraph PDS, Aveva PDMS or PlantFLOW™ (Bentley’s flow analysis application used to calculate steady state single-phase pressures, flow velocities, temperatures, and fluid properties in gas or liquid piping networks)
- CAD support and anchor tags
- Apply true CAD joint types to any point
- New automatic stress isometric generation with fully dimension Iso and customizable data
- Export model geometry data as PXF files into AutoPLANT
- Export model geometry data as DXF files into AutoCAD® and MicroStation®
Dynamic Analysis
- Time history dynamic analysis with built-in relief valve, and water and steam hammer fluid transient utilities
- Mode shapes, accelerations, and natural frequencies
- Harmonic load analysis
- Response spectrum and shock spectra
- Multiple spectrum enveloping
- NRC spectra and code case N411 (PVRC) damping and spectra
- NUREG.CR-1677 benchmark
- Automatic mass discretization
- Missing mass and ZPA correction
Piping Codes
- ASME B31.1, B31.3, B31.4, B31.8
- ASME Sec. 3, Class II and III
- European Standard Metallic Industrial Piping EN13480
- B31.4 Offshore, B31.8 Offshore & CSA_Z662 Offshore codes
- Canadian CAN/CSA–Z662
- British Standard BS 806, BS 7159 (GRP piping code)
- Swedish Piping Code (SPC) Method 2
- Norwegian Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and TBK 5-6
- Dutch Stoomwezen D1101
- Japanese KHK, MITI class 3 and General Fire Protection code
- French RCC-M and SNCT
AutoPIPE Quality Assurance Program
- Passed numerous independent on-site audits to 10CFR50 App. B, ISO9001, ASME NQA-1 and ANSI N45.2
- Formal test plans for verification of every new feature to AutoPIPE
- Integration testing for features implemented in previous versions with records of validation spanning more than seventeen years
- AutoPIPE QA & Reporting Services for nuclear plant engineering users to help meet safety related QA requirements
Analysis
- Calculation of the effects of multiple wind, earthquake, thermal and
dynamic loads
- Automatic generation of wind profiles per ASCE and UBC guidelines
- Wave loading and buoyancy for offshore applications
- Hydrotest analysis automatically converts spring hangers to rigid
vertical supports
- Fluid transient utilities for water and steam hammer plus relief valve
load analysis
- Automatic spring hanger sizing based on hanger data from
21 manufacturers
- Accurate nonlinear support gap and friction solutions
- Nonlinear state-of-the-art pipe/soil interaction for buried pipeline analysis
- Jacketed piping analysis
- Thermal bowing analysis
- Integrated flange loading analysis per ANSI B16.5
- Nozzle flexibility analysis per API 650 App. P, ASME class 1, WRC 297 and Biljaard methods
Results
- Graphical point and click to view sorted stresses, deflections, or loads, at any point on the model
- Result grid synchronized with the plot for on screen viewing, filtering, printing and sorting all results
- Results saved to MS Access MDB file
- Automatic or user-defined load combinations
- Calculation of maximum intermediate stresses along any component
- Rotating equipment evaluation for API 610, NEMA and API617, and user-defined rotating equipment
- Min/Max load summaries
- Export nozzle loads to WinNOZL module for calculation of local shell stresses to WRC107, WRC297, KHK, API650 & PD5500
- Calculation and evaluation of code stresses for 29 standard piping codes
- Graphic viewing of results using color-coded model to highlight points that exceed user-specified criteria
- Filtering of results by stress, deflection or load criteria for custom reports
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