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Pipe Stress Analysis and Design Software

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Ensure high quality, cost-effective piping designs and a smooth workflow.

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  • AutoPIPE

  • What is AutoPIPE?

    AutoPIPE is an intelligent analysis and design application built to calculate pipe stress, loads, and deflections under various load conditions. It offers various automation features and unmatched interoperability with other software applications.

    Model, Analyze, and Visualize Pipe Stress

    Improve efficiency with object-oriented point-and-click interactive modeling. Save time and improve consistency due to AutoPIPE’s robust integration with all major intelligent 3D CAD systems. Rapidly set up, analyze, and visualize results for various loading scenarios, including thermal, seismic, wind, and dynamic (response spectra) load cases.

    Check Structural Interoperability and Pipe Stress Clashes

    Improve model accuracy and better represent real-life plants by including the support structural stiffness in the piping model and transferring the support reaction loads to STAAD.Pro. Analyze any static or dynamic loading condition applied to piping and structures, then determine the pipe stress operational displacements and clash check them against the entire plant model.

    Comply with Industry Codes and Standards

    Ensure your projects comply with major American (ASME) and European (EN) metallic piping codes. The software includes API, NEMA, ANSI, ASCE, AISC, UBC, ISO, and WRC guidelines and design load limits. AutoPIPE offers easily accessible, built-in ASME B31J flexibility and stress intensification factor calculations with a simple checkbox.

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  • AutoPIPE Advanced

  • What is AutoPIPE Advanced?

    AutoPIPE Advanced includes everything that is in the base version of AutoPIPE, plus it offers even faster analysis and optimization features.

    Advance Your Analysis Capabilities

    Expanding on AutoPIPE’s capabilities, AutoPIPE Advanced also includes a buried pipe with upheaval analysis and soil properties calculator, flange analysis to ASME VIII Division 1 and 2, force time history analysis, multiple response spectra analysis, harmonic, fluid transient analysis, stress isometric, seismic anchor motion (SAM), wave loading and buoyancy, and much more.

    Optimize Supports

    Improve efficiency and save time by using the machine learning Support Optimizer technology provided with AutoPIPE Advanced. Let the software use the power of all of your computer’s cores and evaluate thousands of possible support configurations against the design code requirements for the various system loadings.

    Comply with Industry Codes and Standards

    Ensure the safety of your projects across the power, process, nuclear, offshore, chemical, and oil and gas industries with global metallic and non-metallic piping design codes. The software incorporates major American (ASME), European (EN/ISO/DNV/BS), Canadian (CSA), and Japanese (JSME/KHK) piping codes, plus coverage for hydrogen pipelines and industrial piping with ASME B31.12.

    Data Sheet

  • AutoPIPE Nuclear

  • What is AutoPIPE Nuclear?

    AutoPIPE Nuclear offers critical design features for safety and shortens nuclear piping design cycles and manufacturing cycles.

    Perform Nuclear Analysis

    Expanding on the analysis capabilities in AutoPIPE Advanced, AutoPIPE Nuclear also provides fatigue analysis, high energy leakage and crack detection, and thermal transient analysis.

    Assure Quality

    Bentley development and testing procedures conform to ASME NQA-1, ASME N45.2, CSA N286.7-99, and 10CFR50. Critical error reporting to 10CFR21 is available for subscribers of the QA&R program that also gives access to our validation calculations and allows users to perform audits on our procedures.

    Conform to Industry Codes and Standards

    AutoPIPE Nuclear includes the American (ASME Class NB and NC/D) and Japanese (JSME NC1 and MITI501) piping codes for nuclear safety-related and critical pipe stress analysis.

    Data Sheet

What is AutoPIPE?

AutoPIPE is an intelligent analysis and design application built to calculate pipe stress, loads, and deflections under various load conditions. It offers various automation features and unmatched interoperability with other software applications.

Model, Analyze, and Visualize Pipe Stress

Improve efficiency with object-oriented point-and-click interactive modeling. Save time and improve consistency due to AutoPIPE’s robust integration with all major intelligent 3D CAD systems. Rapidly set up, analyze, and visualize results for various loading scenarios, including thermal, seismic, wind, and dynamic (response spectra) load cases.

Check Structural Interoperability and Pipe Stress Clashes

Improve model accuracy and better represent real-life plants by including the support structural stiffness in the piping model and transferring the support reaction loads to STAAD.Pro. Analyze any static or dynamic loading condition applied to piping and structures, then determine the pipe stress operational displacements and clash check them against the entire plant model.

Comply with Industry Codes and Standards

Ensure your projects comply with major American (ASME) and European (EN) metallic piping codes. The software includes API, NEMA, ANSI, ASCE, AISC, UBC, ISO, and WRC guidelines and design load limits. AutoPIPE offers easily accessible, built-in ASME B31J flexibility and stress intensification factor calculations with a simple checkbox.

Data Sheet

What is AutoPIPE Advanced?

AutoPIPE Advanced includes everything that is in the base version of AutoPIPE, plus it offers even faster analysis and optimization features.

Advance Your Analysis Capabilities

Expanding on AutoPIPE’s capabilities, AutoPIPE Advanced also includes a buried pipe with upheaval analysis and soil properties calculator, flange analysis to ASME VIII Division 1 and 2, force time history analysis, multiple response spectra analysis, harmonic, fluid transient analysis, stress isometric, seismic anchor motion (SAM), wave loading and buoyancy, and much more.

Optimize Supports

Improve efficiency and save time by using the machine learning Support Optimizer technology provided with AutoPIPE Advanced. Let the software use the power of all of your computer’s cores and evaluate thousands of possible support configurations against the design code requirements for the various system loadings.

Comply with Industry Codes and Standards

Ensure the safety of your projects across the power, process, nuclear, offshore, chemical, and oil and gas industries with global metallic and non-metallic piping design codes. The software incorporates major American (ASME), European (EN/ISO/DNV/BS), Canadian (CSA), and Japanese (JSME/KHK) piping codes, plus coverage for hydrogen pipelines and industrial piping with ASME B31.12.

Data Sheet

What is AutoPIPE Nuclear?

AutoPIPE Nuclear offers critical design features for safety and shortens nuclear piping design cycles and manufacturing cycles.

Perform Nuclear Analysis

Expanding on the analysis capabilities in AutoPIPE Advanced, AutoPIPE Nuclear also provides fatigue analysis, high energy leakage and crack detection, and thermal transient analysis.

Assure Quality

Bentley development and testing procedures conform to ASME NQA-1, ASME N45.2, CSA N286.7-99, and 10CFR50. Critical error reporting to 10CFR21 is available for subscribers of the QA&R program that also gives access to our validation calculations and allows users to perform audits on our procedures.

Conform to Industry Codes and Standards

AutoPIPE Nuclear includes the American (ASME Class NB and NC/D) and Japanese (JSME NC1 and MITI501) piping codes for nuclear safety-related and critical pipe stress analysis.

Data Sheet

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“Seamless software integration from AutoPIPE and STAAD contributed to a shortened product qualification process, saving 60% of the analysis and design cycle time. The software also helped us to coordinate with design teams on final assembly, fabrication, and production, and enabled the timely market launch of the product.”

— BANGALORE, INDIA, GE Water & Process Technologies

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Frequently Asked Questions

AutoPIPE is an analysis and design application used to calculate piping stresses, loads, and deflections under static and dynamic load conditions.

AutoPIPE is a common pipe stress design and analysis software known for its intuitiveness. Not only is it affordable and reliable, but it offers customizable reporting, automated support structure optimization, and makes it easy to import and export various file formats such as CAESAR II files to save time and eliminate errors. AutoPIPE is offered in various versions so you can choose which version is best for you.

Find out which version is right for you.

AutoPIPE offers machine learning support optimization saving hundreds of design hours. It also offers buried pipeline design and analysis capabilities, with 3D hot clash interference detection. Advanced interoperability allows you to import structural models from applications like SACS for offshore projects or structural analysis applications like STAAD so it’s easy to include the structural steel flexibilities in the pipe model. Structural and piping engineers work more efficiently together reducing risks and non-conformances. AutoPIPE includes support for many international design codes including ASME B31 J, as well as ASME III Nuclear codes for class 1, 2, and 3 piping. (Available in AutoPIPE Nuclear sold by Bentley directly.)

AutoPIPE has full interoperability between OpenPlant, STAAD, SACS, or third party products like CAESAR, SmartPlant, PDMS, or PDS. This allows the pipe design to be automatically imported into the pipe stress analysis program through a PXF file, PCF file, or similar. Advanced mapping ensures piping geometry, pipe properties, material, component class, support data and more are imported correctly. This workflow allows the piping to be modeled just once, increasing efficiency and eliminating manual errors.

Over 30 international design codes are supported including multiple years of ASME III, B31.1, B31.3, B31.4, B31.8, EN13480, CSA-Z662, ISO14692, DNV F101, ASME B31 J. AutoPIPE is one of the few pipestress analysis programs that adheres to the strictest international quality standards, including ISO 9001, NQA-1, 10CFR50 and approved by NIAC, NUPIC since 1986.

The price of AutoPIPE and AutoPIPE Advanced varies per region. While there are various types of licensing available a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Bentley’s eStore, and it comes in the form of a Virtuoso Subscription which means you get both the software AND training, expert services, and custom mentoring.

  • Microsoft Windows 10 or 11 64 bit Professional
  • 4GB Hard Drive and 4GB Memory recommended
  • Any industry-standard video card that supports Open GL 3D graphics
  • Recommended: Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.0 or higher

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Licensing and Subscription options

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One-year license with training

Virtuoso Subscription – A popular choice for small and medium-sized businesses

Get access to software that comes with training – fast! Bentley’s eStore, Virtuosity, offers a convenient way to lease a 12-month license of Bentley software for a low, upfront cost. Every online purchase through Virtuosity comes as a Virtuoso Subscription that includes training and auto-renewals.

With no contract required, it’s easy to get started quickly.

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One-time purchase with support

Perpetual License with SELECT

A perpetual license of Bentley software is a one-time purchase, with a yearly maintenance subscription, called SELECT. This includes 24/7/365 technical support, learning resources, and the ability to exchange licenses for other software once a year. With SELECT, you will benefit from:

  • License pooling, so you can access your software from multiple computers.
  • Access additional Bentley software with Term Licenses, which allow you to pay for what you use without the upfront cost of purchasing a perpetual license.

Annual renewal quotes are delivered directly to your inbox, and our experienced Renewal Representatives are available to answer your questions and guide you through any changes you’d like to make.

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