AutoPIPE
AutoPIPE

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.

According to the largest EPCs in the world, their turn-around time for pipe stress work was reduced between 20-50 percentage productivity gains by switching from competitors programs to Bentley AutoPIPE. Because 80 to 90 percent of pipe stress work is spent finding solutions, Bentley AutoPIPE has been designed with many productivity features, like graphical copy/paste, point and click for fast modification, Excel style grids, and instant feedback from graphical results. This allows AutoPIPE users to quickly iterate toward a solution and hand over final code stress reports and final piping layouts to the designer, or support loads to the structural engineer weeks in advance.

Produktinformationen

Modeling Capabilities

  • Interactive pipe routing facilities
  • User defined SIF
  • English / Metric / SI mixed unit for input and output
  • Complete ANSI, ASME and British Standards SIF Library
  • Built in flexibility factors per ASME, ANSI and British Standards
  • Automatic vessel / nozzle flexibility – WRC 297 and Flat Bottom Tank criteria
  • Structural Steel modeling capability
  • Expansion Joints
  • ANSI and JIS component and material database
  • Grinnell, Bergen-Paterson, Basic Engineers, Pipe Technology, Sarathi and Lisega Pipe Support Catalogue
  • Extensive pipe support modeling capabilities
    • Anchors
    • Skew supports
    • Snubbers
    • Constant / Variable supports
    • Rigid supports with user defined stiffness
    • Bi-directional support with friction
    • Bi-linear support
    • Bi-directional support with gap and friction
    • Friction support
    • Gaps

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/CSA–Z662
  • British Standard BS 806, BS 7159 (GRP piping code)
  • FRP ISO 14692
  • ASME N755 HDPE Code Case
  • Russian SNIP 2.05.06-85 Oil and Gas
  • Swedish Piping Code (SPC) Method 2
  • Norwegian Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and TBK 5-6
  • Dutch Stoomwezen D1101
  • Japanese KHK, MITI class 3, JSME NC1-PPC and General Fire Protection code
  • French RCC-M and SNCT

Quality Assurance and Verification

  • 10CFR50 Appendix B and ANSI N.45.2.11 compliance
  • More than 100 audits
  • Three-volume verification manual containing extensive hand calculations
  • NUREG/CR-1677 Volume 1 and 2 benchmarks
  • Resultant Moments and Stress contour plots

AutoPIPE at-a-glance

Modeling

  • Single line, wire-frame and solid render drawing modes
  • CAD style single, double, or quad view ports
  • Vertical axis (Y or Z) can be switched on the fly
  • On-screen distance calculator for accurate coordinate checks
  • Built-in valve actuator for more accurate valve modeling
  • Segment management: reverse, split, join, and re-order segments
  • CAD line class and line numbers
  • Connectivity checker to avoid model disconnects
  • English, metric, SI, and user-defined units
  • Extensive ANSI/ASME, DIN, EN, JIS, GD, GB, GOST, and GRP/FRP standard piping component and material libraries
  • Structural steel modeling using structural databases for 17 countries
  • Expansion joint modeling with tie rod assemblies
  • Model import from AutoPLANT®, PlantSpace®, OpenPlant®, MicroStation®, Excel®, AutoCAD®,Intergraph PDS®, SmartPlant®, Aveva PDMS®, CADWORX®, SolidWorks®, Inventor®, Plant 3D, CATIA®, and PlantFLOW®
  • PIPELINK bi-directional integration with STAAD.Pro
  • Automatic stress isometric generation in DXF, DWG or DGN formats with engineers mark-ups
  • Model geometry data export into AutoPLANT®, MicroStation®, and AutoCAD®
  • Automated ring main wizard
  • Automatic ASCE soil calculator

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/CSA–Z662
  • British Standard BS 806, BS 7159 (GRP piping code)
  • FRP ISO 14692
  • ASME N755 HDPE Code Case
  • Russian SNIP 2.05.06-85 Oil and Gas
  • Swedish Piping Code (SPC) Method 2
  • Norwegian Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and TBK 5-6
  • Dutch Stoomwezen D1101
  • Japanese KHK, MITI class 3, JSME NC1-PPC and General Fire Protection code
  • French RCC-M and SNCT

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

Input and Results

  • Results saved to Microsoft Access MDB file for post-processing
  • Automatic or user-defined load combinations grid
  • Automated batch processing
  • Maximum intermediate stresses
  • Reference point for manufacturer equipment loading reports
  • Rotating equipment calculations to API 610, NEMA and API 617, and user-defined standards
  • Results can be filtered and sorted by stress, deflection, or load criteria

Technical Support

Our support staff is available to assist you with advice and assistance. You can reach us by phone and email. If you need personal assistance, you can also schedule a callback.

Online Training

Benefit from free online presentations, problem-solving support, and high-quality, effective on-site training that will help you get your project off to a quick start or increase your internal quality and efficiency.

Engineering Services

Together with our internationally operating partner, MF Engineering & Consulting, we consistently develop our expertise and find the right solution for your challenges.