Brochure Bentley AutoPIPE 
Modeling Features
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Single line, double line or solid model view with
interactive zoom, pan, or rotate model capability
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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
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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?, Bentleys 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
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Export model geometry data as DXF files into AutoCAD? |
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
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Rotating equipment evaluation for API 610, NEMA and
API
617, and user-defined rotating equipment
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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 |
and
MicroStation?
Dynamic Analysis Features
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Time history dynamic analysis with waterhammer, relief
valve, steamhammer fluid transient synthesizers
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Mode shapes and natural frequencies
- Harmonic load
analysis
- Response spectrum and shock spectra
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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
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Canadian CAN/CSAZ662
- 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
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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
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