Bentley AutoPIPE Product Data Sheet
Bentley AutoPIPE Product Data Sheet
Bentley AutoPIPE Product Data Sheet
Interface with ProjectWise, CAE, STAAD.Pro and Plant Design CAD Systems
The only solution on the market today for a truly integrated design between piping and structural analysis, AutoPIPE V8i can automatically transfer pipe support loads as well as import complete structures to and from STAAD.Pro V8i, saving weeks of design time and providing safer, more-realistic engineered designs. Import 3D plant design CAD models from AutoPLANT V8i, PlantSpace V8i, OpenPlant V8i, Intergraph PDS, SmartPlant, CADWORX, SolidWorks, Inventor, Plant 3D, CATIA, and Aveva PDMS, into AutoPIPE V8i to save hundreds of man-hours and ensure accurate pipe stress models. AutoPIPE V8i provides users with full read/write interoperability with Caesar II, and its models and data can be read by Bentley Navigator or MicroStation alongside any CAD model to support early engineering decision making, perform 3D hot clash detection, and reduce design iterations. AutoPIPE also generates fully dimensioned stress isometrics with custom data and comments highlighting the pipe stress engineers changes. In addition, AutoPIPE V8i is integrated with ProjectWise for global collaboration of engineering and CAD data files on major projects
Quality Assurance
AutoPIPE V8i rigorous quality assurance program has passed numerous nuclear and Nuclear Procurement Issues Committee (NUPIC) audits to 10CFR50 App. B, ISO9001, CSA N286.7-99, ASME NQA-1, and ANSI N45.2 standards, making Bentley AutoPIPE V8i one of the few pipe stress programs with a high-level of quality. AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i provides design of critical safety pipework to ASME Class 1, 2, or 3.
System Requirements
Processor Pentium III or higher Operating System Windows Vista Business (32- or 64-bit), Windows XP (32- or 64-bit), or Windows 7 Professional (32- or 64-bit) Memory 256 MB RAM Hard Disk 256 MB
Analysis
Unlimited static analysis to examine different loading scenarios including hot modulus for any combination of 100 thermal, 10 seismic, 10 wind, and 50 dynamic load cases. Automatic generation of wind profiles per ASCE and UBC guidelines Wave loading and buoyancy for offshore applications Hydrotest analysis with locking spring hangers Fluid transient utilities for water and steam hammer plus relief valve load analysis Automatic spring hanger sizing from 27 manufacturers State-of-the-art nonlinear support gap, friction, yielding, and soil interaction with advanced features of seismic wave propagation, overburden and settlement loads, and stresses to ASCE, AWWA, and ASME Thermal stratification bowing analysis Thermal transient analysis (TTA), fatigue and high energy/leakage design for ASME Class 1 Seismic static and response spectra load generator to IBC, Euro, ASCE, Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Chinese, standards Ec/Eh ratio applied to expansion stresses for any piping code Integrated flange loading analysis per ASME VIII Div 1 and 2, ASME III App XI, and ANSI B16.5 Nozzle flexibility analysis per API 650 App. P, ASME Class 1, WRC 297 and Biljaard methods
Dynamic Analysis
Time history dynamic analysis with ground motion Mode shapes, accelerations, and natural frequencies Harmonic load analysis Uniform & MSRS response spectrum and shock spectra Multiple spectrum enveloping NRC spectra and code case N411 (PVRC) damping and spectra NUREG.CR-1677, CR-6414 and CR-6049 benchmarks Automatic mass discretization Missing mass and ZPA correction
Piping Codes
ASME B31.1 (multiple years), B31.3, B31.4, and B31.8 ASME Sec. 3, Class I, II, and III (multiple years from 1972) European Standard Metallic Industrial Piping EN13480 B31.4, B31.8, B31.4 Offshore, B31.8 Offshore and CSA_Z662 Offshore codes, DNV OS F101 offshore code Canadian CAN/CSAZ662 British Standard BS 806, BS 7159 (GRP piping code)
Bi-directional integration with STAAD.Pro for more efficient, accurate engineering designs.
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