AutoPIPE provides tools for dynamic analysis, response spectrum, harmonic, seismic anchor movement, and modal dynamic analysis. Dynamic loads can easily be combined with static loads for code compliance and operating combinations.
AutoPIPE also provides built-in wave loading and underwater current loading with effects of buoyancy. Users can have varying mass, drag, or lift coefficients throughout the model. Nonlinear pipe/soil interaction using bilinear springs and mass lumping, waterhammer/steamhammer load synthesizers, relief valve thrust load generator, wind load profiles per UBC, AISC, or user defined profiles. You can input different static G factors in different sections of the model for more accurate static earthquake responses.
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