Bentley AutoPIPE Software
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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
• Dynamic zoom, pan, or rotate model capability with toolbar or mouse wheel and buttons
• 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™
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
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