Bentley AutoPipe 09.04.00.19

AutoPIPE provides a comprehensive and advanced software tool specialized in pipe stress analysis. The intuitive modeling environment and the advanced analysis features provide for increased productivity and improved quality control. Fluent data collaboration can be obtained through the integration with structural and 3D models providing an environment for increased business growth.

AutoPIPE is the choice of leading EPCs worldwide. The most comprehensive piping analysis software for 20 years in small to high-end piping projects worldwide for the power, oil and gas, petrochemical, offshore, and nuclear markets. Faster engineered piping systems backed by nuclear Quality Assurance to ISO 9001.

Features

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
- Formal 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



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