CSiPlant 8.1.0 (1298)

Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI) is pleased to announce the availability of CSiPlant 8.1.0 (1298). The next-generation pipe stress and plant design software which connects Piping Engineers and Structural Engineers, innovating how teams collaborate on a single model.

CSiPlant offers advanced analysis technology to the process, power, pipeline and offshore industries, and provides piping-code compliance checks with stress-intensification and flexibility factors that are automatically calculated and applied.

What's new in CSiPlant 8.1.0 - Date: 13-Oct-2023

Design
Design codes B31.3, B31.4 and B31.8 2022 have been added.


Loading
Ground displacement profiles can be assigned along distributed soil supports to simulate constant or varying ground settlement scenarios, particularly for buried pipelines.


Modeling
Assign variable-length auto meshing to pipe and frame objects to allow increased mesh refinement at features of interest while reducing mesh density where refinement is are not required.


Graphically display the locations of discrete supports that are generated for distributed support assignments.



CSiPlant is a standalone piping stress analysis program based on our SAP2000 structural software, but with a user interface and design features tailored for piping stress and structural engineers working in the process, power, pipeline, and offshore industries. As a result of being based on SAP2000, CSiPlant inherited a number of unique capabilities not available in other older generation piping stress programs. Capabilities such as second order nonlinear P-delta analysis with large displacements, unlimited path dependent load sequencing (can be important when friction or soil is modeled), nonlinear time history dynamic analysis which can consider gaps, multi-linear restraint behavior, one-way supports, friction, and P-delta effects in the dynamic analysis, unlimited number of load cases, and buckling analysis, to name a few of CSiPlant’s unique advantages for more realistic analysis results. All this using a modern intuitive and efficient graphical user interface. CSiPlant's bi-directional integration with SAP2000 provides comprehensive and reliable integration between piping stress and structural analysis for more accurate calculation of piping code stresses and reactions, with options to automatically export selected pipe support loads from the combined CSiPlant model back into SAP2000. These more rigorous analysis technologies and methods provide “more applicable data” as referenced in the ASME B31 codes.
The SAPFire Analytical Engine includes multi-threaded solvers and algorithms that can take advantage of multi-core CPUs. The design algorithms can also utilize multiple cores.

CSiPlant - The Next-Generation Pipe Stress and Plant Design Software


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Founded in 1975, Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI) is recognized globally as the pioneering leader in software tools for structural and earthquake engineering. Software from CSI is used by thousands of engineering firms in over 160 countries for the design of major projects, including the Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan, One World Trade Center in New York, the 2008 Olympics Birds Nest Stadium in Beijing and the cable-stayed Centenario Bridge over the Panama Canal. CSI's software is backed by more than three decades of research and development, making it the trusted choice of sophisticated design professionals everywhere.

Owner: Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI)
Product Name: CSiPlant
Version: 8.1.0 (1298)
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.csiamerica.com
Languages Supported: english
System Requirements: Windows *
Size: 484.8 mb