Pipe stress and Vessel analysis

Pipe stress and vessel engineers work in the power, nuclear, offshore, chemical, and oil and gas industries. These specialized engineers need pipe stress and vessel analysis software to accurately design pressure vessels, heat exchangers, tanks, and air coolers. Pipe stress and vessel analysis software helps them evaluate the effect that a variety of loads have on the piping system, pressure vessel, and heat exchanger stresses to optimize the most efficient design of their industrial facilities. They need to ensure their designs are code-compliant and cost-effective to keep their assets safely in operation.

Using Bentley’s popular pipe stress and vessel analysis software, produce code-compliant piping and vessel designs for any plant environment, anywhere in the world. Bentley’s AutoPIPE software helps improve productivity with time-saving automated features, interactive modeling, and integration with other discipline software. You can even check for clashes to avoid unanticipated issues by including the structural supports in your piping model.

AutoPIPE is an smart analysis and design application built to calculate pipe stress, loads, and deflections under various load circumstances. It offers various automation features and unmatched interoperability with other software applications

Swiftly set up, analyze, and visualize results for various loading scenarios, including thermal, seismic, wind, and dynamic (response spectra) load cases. Improve efficiency with object-oriented point-and-click interactive modeling. Save time and improve consistency due to AutoPIPE’s robust integration with all major intelligent 3D CAD systems.

Analyze any static or dynamic loading condition applied to piping and structures, then determine the pipe stress operational displacements and clash check them against the entire plant model. Improve model accuracy and better represent real-life plants by including the support structural stiffness in the piping model and transferring the support reaction loads to STAAD.Pro.

Ensure your projects comply with foremost American (ASME) and European (EN) metallic piping codes. It offers easily accessible, built-in ASME B31J flexibility and stress intensification factor calculations with a simple checkbox.The software includes API, NEMA, ANSI, ASCE, AISC, UBC, ISO, and WRC guidelines and design load limits.

This includes everything that is in the base version of AutoPIPE, plus it offers even faster analysis and optimization features.

Enhancing on AutoPIPE’s competences, AutoPIPE Advanced also includes a buried pipe with upheaval analysis and soil properties calculator, multiple response spectra analysis, flange analysis to ASME VIII Division 1 and 2, force time history analysis, , harmonic, stress isometric, fluid transient analysis, seismic anchor motion (SAM), wave loading and buoyancy, and much more.

Improve efficiency and save time by using the machine learning Support Optimizer technology provided with AutoPIPE Advanced. The software use the power of all of computer’s cores and evaluate thousands of possible support configurations against the design code requirements for the various system loadings.

The software incorporates major American (ASME), European (EN/ISO/DNV/BS), Canadian (CSA), and Japanese (JSME/KHK) piping codes, plus coverage for hydrogen pipelines and industrial piping with ASME B31.12. This ensure the safety of your projects across the power, process, nuclear, offshore, chemical, and oil and gas industries with global metallic and non-metallic piping design codes.

Shortens nuclear piping design cycles and manufacturing cycles with AutoPIPE Nuclear critical design features for safety.

Expanding on the analysis capabilities in AutoPIPE Advanced, AutoPIPE Nuclear also provides and thermal transient analysis. fatigue analysis, high energy leakage and crack detection.

Critical error reporting to 10CFR21 is available for subscribers of the QA&R program that also gives access to our validation calculations and allows users to perform audits on our procedures. Bentley development and testing procedures conform to ASME NQA-1, ASME N45.2, CSA N286.7-99, and 10CFR50.

This version of software includes the American (ASME Class NB and NC/D) and Japanese (JSME NC1 and MITI501) piping codes for nuclear safety-related and critical pipe stress analysis.

Experience the future of vessel design with AutoPIPE Vessel. Powerful solution for designing complex pressure vessels and shell and tube heat exchangers under multiple loading conditions. With a comprehensive suite of global and regional pressure design code standards, automated workflows, detailed equipment cost estimation, and self-explanatory step-by-step reports, you can deliver accurate, safe, and compliant designs on time and under budget. Furthermore, AutoPIPE Vessel’s unparalleled automatic drawing feature can generate highly detailed, fabrication-level drawings and 3D models in a matter of minutes.

Adjust to your project requirements and ensure compliance with a comprehensive suite of pressure codes, analytical local load methods, construction standards including TEMA, and several design codes for regional wind and seismic loads.

Take control during check mode at any time to get the results you need. Improve and accelerate designs with the use of the automated design capabilities. Advanced optimization eliminates the need for manual iterations and automatically determines the minimum thickness required for all checks.

3D models in both *.dgn and *.dwg formats can be created without the need of any third-party software and configure drawing sheet layout as per requirement. Decrease manual drawing time and rework with automated detailed drawings and components development.

Maximize productivity and minimize errors with the highly customizable material database, support standards, default values, and more. Combine this with project specifications for the ultimate design experience.