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
• Formally approved 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