AutoPIPE
The ideal tool for pipe stress analysis and design
Bentley AutoPIPE - AutoPIPE สำหรับวิเคราะห์ค่าความแข็งแรง, ค่าความเค้นของท่อตาม Piping code ทั้งที่เป็นแบบ Loads และ Deflections ในรูปแบบที่เป็น Static และ Dynamic loading conditions (Stress Analysis)
Modeling Features
- Single line, double line or solid model view with interactive zoom, pan, or rotate model capability
- Graphical point and click capability for inserting, modifying or deleting piping components and loading parameters
- Graphic selection of sections of model to cut, copy or paste
- Automatic renumbering of point names
- User specified vertical axis (Y, Z, or X)
- 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,
temperatures or pressures
- Library of temperature-dependent code material properties and allowable stresses
- ANSI/ASME, DIN, JIS and GRP standard piping
component libraries
- FRP pipe 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 model from AutoPLANT, PlantSpace, Intergraph PDS and PlantFLOW?, Bentley’s analysis application used to calculate steady state single-phase pressures, flow velocities, temperatures, and fluid properties in gas or liquid piping networks
- Export model geometry data as PXF files into AutoPLANT
- Export model geometry data as DXF files into AutoCAD? and MicroStation?
Dynamic Analysis Features
- Time history dynamic analysis with waterhammer, relief valve, steamhammer fluid transient synthesizers
- Mode shapes and natural frequencies
- Harmonic load analysis
- Response spectrum and shock spectra
- NRC spectra and code case N411
- NUREG.CR-1677 benchmark
Piping Codes
- ASME B31.1, B31.3, B31.4, B31.8
- ASME Sec. 3, Class II & III
- European Standard Metallic Industrial Piping EN13480
- 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, 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 ten years
- AutoPIPE QA & Reporting Services for nuclear plant
engineering users to help meet safety related QA requirements
Analysis Features
- 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 restraints and provides insulation on/off option
- Fluid transient synthesizer for water hammer and steam relief
valve loads
- Automatic spring hanger sizing based on hanger data from
17 manufacturers
- Accurate nonlinear support gap and friction solutions
- Nonlinear pipe/soil interaction for buried pipeline analysis
- Jacketed piping analysis
- Integrated flange loading per ANSI B16.5
- Nozzle flexibility analysis per API 650 App. P, ASME class 1,
WRC 297 and Biljaard methods
Result Features
- Graphical point and click to view stresses, deflections, or loads,
at any point on the model
- Automatic or user-defined load combinations
- Calculation of maximum stresses along component without
modeling intermediate points
- Rotating equipment evaluation for API 610, NEMA and API
617, and user-defined rotating equipment
- Min/Max load summaries
- Export nozzle loads to WinNOZL module for calculation of local
shell stresses
- Calculation and evaluation of code stresses for 22 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 to output
only the results needed
