Newly Released Software Is Powered by ADLPipe and Enables Design and Engineering Professionals to Quickly Make Modifications and Find Solutions in Problem Areas

EXTON, Pa. - Jan, 27th, 2008 - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today released Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i, powered by ADLPipe. This plant detailed design tool helps engineers, constructors, and owner-operators conduct extensive and more accurate modeling and stress analyses on aging and new nuclear power stations. To address the widely anticipated need for field-proven design methods leading to shorter nuclear plant design, site-licensing, and manufacturing cycles, AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i combines ADLPipe - the industry's most widely used standard piping analysis engine - with the innovative and productive modeling environment of Bentley AutoPIPE. One of the many benefits of Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i stems from its use of a CAD-like graphical interface with unique graphical-object, point-and-click, and copy-and-paste technologies. This enables design and engineering professionals to quickly make modifications and find solutions in problem areas. Current users of Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i include Washington Group; Shaw Stone and Webster, a unit of The Shaw Group Inc.; Fluor Federal Services; and AREVA NP.

With global demand for electricity expected to double by 2030, the cost of carbon-based energy sources climbing, and much of the world taking steps to sustain the environment by reducing carbon emissions, the building of new nuclear power stations is once again an attractive and viable option. As aging nuclear plants close, and the demand for new stations increases, a sizable investment in nuclear power plants by the U.S., Europe, India, and China is anticipated. With the release of AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i, powered by ADLPipe, Bentley is well positioned to support this growing commitment on the part of governments to the renaissance of nuclear power plant construction.

Among the major features of Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i, powered by ADLPipe, are:
• Comprehensive analysis capability, including ASME NB Class 1, ASME NC Class 2, ASME ND Class 3, material properties database, Class 1 components and joint type, rupture stress criterion, and comprehensive fatigue evaluation;
• Bentley's rigorous quality assurance and reporting program that's in accordance with ASME NQA-1, ISO 9001, CSA N286.7-99, ASME N45.2, and 10CFR50 application standards;
• ASME NB and NC code years that date to 1972 for maintenance and operation on existing nuclear plants;
• Japanese JSME PPC Class 2 piping code;
• Advanced analysis features integrated through wall thermal gradient, thermal stratification, fluid transient, seismic response spectra enveloping, and steam relief analyses;

• Bidirectional integration with STAAD.Pro for combined piping and structural analysis for more accurate engineering designs;
• User-defined static-load sets that provide unlimited static analyses that specify different design scenarios;
• Automated and user-defined stress combinations with powerful filtering capabilities that identify and solve complex problems quickly;

• Reliable 3D CAD interoperability with software products that include AutoPLANT, PDS, PDMS, PlantSpace, ProjectWise Navigator, and SmartPlant 3D for fast and accurate model creation;
• ADLPipe Translator to import and convert existing ADLPipe models.

Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i is part of Bentley's newly launched V8i software portfolio for infrastructure. Encompassing products for all of the solution communities served by Bentley, including roads, bridges, rail and transit, campuses, factories, buildings, power generation, mining and metals, oil and gas, water and wastewater, electric and gas utilities, communications, and cadastre and land development, the V8i portfolio leverages and extends core capabilities of its new interoperability platform to provide the breadth and depth of technology needed for fully integrated project delivery. Developed as a collective whole, the V8i software portfolio facilitates streamlined workflows among multiple disciplines and across project teams throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

To learn about Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i, powered by ADLPipe, visit www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+AutoPIPE.

About Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators are indispensable in improving our world and our quality of life; the company's mission is to improve the performance of their projects and of the assets they design, build, and operate. Bentley sustains the infrastructure professions by helping to leverage information technology, learning, best practices, and global collaboration - and by promoting careers devoted to this crucial work.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,800 colleagues, offices in more than 50 countries, annual revenues surpassing $500 million, and since 1993, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. Nearly 90 percent of the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms are Bentley subscribers, and a 2008 Daratech study ranked Bentley as the world's #2 provider of geospatial software solutions.

I am using Autopipe + XM version 9. While converting from CAESAR II when there is trunnion support on elbow (modelled support), the conversion process will get aborted. Is this a bug?

Last month saw the release of updates to two of Bentley's engineering applications: STAAD.Pro and AutoPIPE. Both programs are popular in plant engineering environments and now these two products work together to seamlessly allow structural and pipe stress engineers to exchange and update model data.

Better tools for collaboration across disciplines are increasingly important to companies facing shorter schedules and leaner, more efficient engineering staff. When asked "How have you improved productivity" earlier this year, American companies between $250 and $405 B responded that they had "deployed new types of collaborative software." When asked about their plans for innovation this year, the same companies responded that they intended to "make business processes more efficient."¹

(¹Source: 2010 Information Week 500 survey)

So, Bentley is helping to do this by streamlining the sharing of data between applications engineers use everyday. This is accomplished by the new PipeLink utility shipping with STAAD.Pro and AutoPIPE. This tight integration helps to speed up design by reducing the time to transfer piping data and support loads to hours, instead of weeks. Designs are more accurate and safer by considering structural sway and stiffness. Less assumptions required by engineers produces more accurate and realistic designs. Integration provides early clash detection, can yield costs savings on pipe supports and steel structure, and produces safer structure, piping, and equipment designs.

Watch PipeLink in Action

Combined Integration

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Simplified Integration

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User Driven Need for Integration Tools

These are real world issues that are consistent in the plant market today. Some of the comments we've heard (emphasis added):

• "There are some significant disconnects between the pipe stress folks and the structural folks. As far as conveying information from pipe stress to Structural, we typically provide the preliminary structural steel drawings to pipe stress for them to mark up loads on it. This is extremely inefficient. Also, piping should try to get as much structural steel put onto the steel drawings so that detailing, fabrication and erection can be done in a single pass."

• "We have some serious frustrations in the way piping designers do their work, interfacing with structural and mechanical. I know the current process is disjointed, but it is all our tools provide us."

• "We have standard loadings that take care of the major stuff.The thing that is a killer is the special case stuff.The thermal loads and piping movements, spring supports, anchor points etc.These types of things have special details, as well as high loads.In addition, a structural engineer can’t guess where these things are going to be or what they will look like. This has to come from the Piping Engineer and we have to sort through drawings. Most of the time this info gets to structural at best just before you issue the drawings. Sometimes it is after the first fabrication release has been sent out and you have to revise the drawings."

So, to address this need, Bentley has introduced bi-directional model exchange to both STAAD.Pro and AutoPIPE.

These links can transfer structural model, displacements & loads, and multiple piping models to AutoPIPE. The link can also transfer pipe support loads to STAAD. The model data can be transferred as many times as necessary with saved revision history for each transaction.

Some examples of how this integration can help your business' workflow:

Scenario 1: Multi-User Project

On large or complex projects, multiple engineers might be involved with both the pipe model and/or the structural model. These can all be integrated. Here, pipe stress analysis is typically performed on each pipe line number in separate models by different team members. These can all be imported into the same structural model for analysis.

Scenario 2: Combined Piping Model

A combined piping model in AutoPIPE can be imported multiple times into the same STAAD model. Pipe-Structure connections are saved in STAAD. The changed support loads can be exported multiple times to STAAD and new piping loads are updated automatically.

Scenario 3: Multiple, Bi-Directional Exchange of Data

The structural data can be imported into AutoPIPE to analyze the combined stiffness of the structure + piping model. Pipe-Structure connections are saved in both programs. Changed support loads can be exported multiple times to STAAD and new piping loads are updated automatically.

Scenario 4: Simplified Method

If you need to only use a small set of data, such as the STAAD displacement results in AutoPIPE, this is still possible. Here, only the structural displacements applied to pipe supports are used in AutoPIPE, but these can be updated multiple times.

This exciting new capability can greatly streamline your company's cross-discipline work and reduce costly errors resulting from manual data exchange designs.

eSeminar

To learn more, use your SELECT user account to watch an eSeminar on our PipeLink Integration tool:

http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Promo/AutoPIPE/eSeminars.htm

This is cross-posted on the Structural Analysis & Design blog.

AutoPIPE - STAAD Integration permits FASTER DESIGNS with LESS ASSUMPTIONS & COST SAVINGS

PipeLink easily integrates the Combined Piping and Structure Model in one analysis to produce a More Realistic & Safer Integrated Piping & Structural Model with 20 -30% less Project Design hours. 

PipeLink....

• Permits Less Assumptions for a more Accurate, Realistic Engineered Design
• Help provides for Safer Structure, Piping, & Equipment
• Helps to promote Potential Cost Savings on Pipe Supports & Steel Structure
• Single or Multiple User Integrated Models with Bi-Directional Data Exchange
• Considers the Structural Sway & Stiffness for more accurate, safer designs.
• Have the Ability to Connect a piping node to a distance along a beam member instead of simply a structure node
• Automatically connect pipe nodes to the closest structure node
• Save the supported node connections for the next revised piping model imported into STAAD
• Has Options for new generated loads to update the existing pipe loads instead of appending to the load case definition
• Can Transfer the nearest structure locations back to the pipe stress model
• Support Reactions can be translated Into Equivalent STAAD Load Cases on the Structural Model saving time and money.
• Multiple Pipe Model imports into STAAD.Pro are possible.
• Transfer Piping Hanger Support Onto The Structural Model Or Examine The Local Piping + Structure Interaction
• Identify Major Interferences from within STAAD or AutoPIPE and Perform detailed clash detection using Bentley Navigator
• As the piping model changes, the structural model will update itself!

FREE Live Seminars to sharpen your skills.  The Insider Skills series is offered weekly and AutoPIPE  is featured on week 2 of each month . 

Next seminar is November 8th .  Add these sessions to your calendar and use a single link to join all these sessions.

Event:  Insider Skills:  AutoPIPE

When: Friday's @ 1pm eastern/Noon central/10am pacific  (week 2 of every month)    

Where:  click here to join

Here is  our full schedule for 2013 (click attached file to add to your calendar):

ProStructures -  June 7,  July 5, August 2, September 6, October 4, November 1, December 6

AutoPIPE- June 14, July 12, August 9, September 13, October 11, November 8, December  6

STAAD -  June 21, July 19, August 16, September 20, October 18, November 15, December 13

RAM - June 28, July 26, August 30, September 27, October 25, November 22, December 13

Need to learn more about certain feature or workflow?  Email us and it could be featured  in our next Insider Skills. 

Missed a seminar? Click here for our recordings.

Plan for our seminar to be about 1 hour long.  Questions will be taken at the end of seminar.

Prior to joining our seminar check your system configuration.

System Configuration:

(https://www.elluminate.com/support)  this link will check your system and instruct you on any updates needed

• Download Java Web Start (download & run offline installer)

• Join the configuration room to complete the installation. Login using your name.

Participation Requirements:

• Network connection - Cable/DSL or higher (500kb/s min.)
• Screen Resolution - 1280 x 1024 minimum

Audio Requirements:

• Computer Headset or Computer Speakers

Looking for more FREE content?  Bookmark my Blog!

 Jessica Portuese's Blog

Hi,

I changed the near and far point names, but they don't show up on the drawing (only in input grid).

Can you guide me how to make them appear?

Thanks

Please see the following blog for more information related to AutoPIPE:

http://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/jessica_portuese_blog/default.aspx

Newly Released Software Is Powered by ADLPipe and Enables Design and Engineering Professionals to Quickly Make Modifications and Find Solutions in Problem Areas

EXTON, Pa. - Jan, 27th, 2008 - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today released Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i, powered by ADLPipe. This plant detailed design tool helps engineers, constructors, and owner-operators conduct extensive and more accurate modeling and stress analyses on aging and new nuclear power stations. To address the widely anticipated need for field-proven design methods leading to shorter nuclear plant design, site-licensing, and manufacturing cycles, AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i combines ADLPipe - the industry's most widely used standard piping analysis engine - with the innovative and productive modeling environment of Bentley AutoPIPE. One of the many benefits of Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i stems from its use of a CAD-like graphical interface with unique graphical-object, point-and-click, and copy-and-paste technologies. This enables design and engineering professionals to quickly make modifications and find solutions in problem areas. Current users of Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i include Washington Group; Shaw Stone and Webster, a unit of The Shaw Group Inc.; Fluor Federal Services; and AREVA NP.

With global demand for electricity expected to double by 2030, the cost of carbon-based energy sources climbing, and much of the world taking steps to sustain the environment by reducing carbon emissions, the building of new nuclear power stations is once again an attractive and viable option. As aging nuclear plants close, and the demand for new stations increases, a sizable investment in nuclear power plants by the U.S., Europe, India, and China is anticipated. With the release of AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i, powered by ADLPipe, Bentley is well positioned to support this growing commitment on the part of governments to the renaissance of nuclear power plant construction.

Among the major features of Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i, powered by ADLPipe, are:
• Comprehensive analysis capability, including ASME NB Class 1, ASME NC Class 2, ASME ND Class 3, material properties database, Class 1 components and joint type, rupture stress criterion, and comprehensive fatigue evaluation;
• Bentley's rigorous quality assurance and reporting program that's in accordance with ASME NQA-1, ISO 9001, CSA N286.7-99, ASME N45.2, and 10CFR50 application standards;
• ASME NB and NC code years that date to 1972 for maintenance and operation on existing nuclear plants;
• Japanese JSME PPC Class 2 piping code;
• Advanced analysis features integrated through wall thermal gradient, thermal stratification, fluid transient, seismic response spectra enveloping, and steam relief analyses;

• Bidirectional integration with STAAD.Pro for combined piping and structural analysis for more accurate engineering designs;
• User-defined static-load sets that provide unlimited static analyses that specify different design scenarios;
• Automated and user-defined stress combinations with powerful filtering capabilities that identify and solve complex problems quickly;

• Reliable 3D CAD interoperability with software products that include AutoPLANT, PDS, PDMS, PlantSpace, ProjectWise Navigator, and SmartPlant 3D for fast and accurate model creation;
• ADLPipe Translator to import and convert existing ADLPipe models.

Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i is part of Bentley's newly launched V8i software portfolio for infrastructure. Encompassing products for all of the solution communities served by Bentley, including roads, bridges, rail and transit, campuses, factories, buildings, power generation, mining and metals, oil and gas, water and wastewater, electric and gas utilities, communications, and cadastre and land development, the V8i portfolio leverages and extends core capabilities of its new interoperability platform to provide the breadth and depth of technology needed for fully integrated project delivery. Developed as a collective whole, the V8i software portfolio facilitates streamlined workflows among multiple disciplines and across project teams throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

To learn about Bentley AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i, powered by ADLPipe, visit www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+AutoPIPE.

About Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators are indispensable in improving our world and our quality of life; the company's mission is to improve the performance of their projects and of the assets they design, build, and operate. Bentley sustains the infrastructure professions by helping to leverage information technology, learning, best practices, and global collaboration - and by promoting careers devoted to this crucial work.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,800 colleagues, offices in more than 50 countries, annual revenues surpassing $500 million, and since 1993, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. Nearly 90 percent of the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms are Bentley subscribers, and a 2008 Daratech study ranked Bentley as the world's #2 provider of geospatial software solutions.

I am using Autopipe + XM version 9. While converting from CAESAR II when there is trunnion support on elbow (modelled support), the conversion process will get aborted. Is this a bug?

Last month saw the release of updates to two of Bentley's engineering applications: STAAD.Pro and AutoPIPE. Both programs are popular in plant engineering environments and now these two products work together to seamlessly allow structural and pipe stress engineers to exchange and update model data.

Better tools for collaboration across disciplines are increasingly important to companies facing shorter schedules and leaner, more efficient engineering staff. When asked "How have you improved productivity" earlier this year, American companies between $250 and $405 B responded that they had "deployed new types of collaborative software." When asked about their plans for innovation this year, the same companies responded that they intended to "make business processes more efficient."¹

(¹Source: 2010 Information Week 500 survey)

So, Bentley is helping to do this by streamlining the sharing of data between applications engineers use everyday. This is accomplished by the new PipeLink utility shipping with STAAD.Pro and AutoPIPE. This tight integration helps to speed up design by reducing the time to transfer piping data and support loads to hours, instead of weeks. Designs are more accurate and safer by considering structural sway and stiffness. Less assumptions required by engineers produces more accurate and realistic designs. Integration provides early clash detection, can yield costs savings on pipe supports and steel structure, and produces safer structure, piping, and equipment designs.

Watch PipeLink in Action

Combined Integration

(Please visit the site to view this video)

Simplified Integration

(Please visit the site to view this video)

User Driven Need for Integration Tools

These are real world issues that are consistent in the plant market today. Some of the comments we've heard (emphasis added):

• "There are some significant disconnects between the pipe stress folks and the structural folks. As far as conveying information from pipe stress to Structural, we typically provide the preliminary structural steel drawings to pipe stress for them to mark up loads on it. This is extremely inefficient. Also, piping should try to get as much structural steel put onto the steel drawings so that detailing, fabrication and erection can be done in a single pass."

• "We have some serious frustrations in the way piping designers do their work, interfacing with structural and mechanical. I know the current process is disjointed, but it is all our tools provide us."

• "We have standard loadings that take care of the major stuff.The thing that is a killer is the special case stuff.The thermal loads and piping movements, spring supports, anchor points etc.These types of things have special details, as well as high loads.In addition, a structural engineer can’t guess where these things are going to be or what they will look like. This has to come from the Piping Engineer and we have to sort through drawings. Most of the time this info gets to structural at best just before you issue the drawings. Sometimes it is after the first fabrication release has been sent out and you have to revise the drawings."

So, to address this need, Bentley has introduced bi-directional model exchange to both STAAD.Pro and AutoPIPE.

These links can transfer structural model, displacements & loads, and multiple piping models to AutoPIPE. The link can also transfer pipe support loads to STAAD. The model data can be transferred as many times as necessary with saved revision history for each transaction.

Some examples of how this integration can help your business' workflow:

Scenario 1: Multi-User Project

On large or complex projects, multiple engineers might be involved with both the pipe model and/or the structural model. These can all be integrated. Here, pipe stress analysis is typically performed on each pipe line number in separate models by different team members. These can all be imported into the same structural model for analysis.

Scenario 2: Combined Piping Model

A combined piping model in AutoPIPE can be imported multiple times into the same STAAD model. Pipe-Structure connections are saved in STAAD. The changed support loads can be exported multiple times to STAAD and new piping loads are updated automatically.

Scenario 3: Multiple, Bi-Directional Exchange of Data

The structural data can be imported into AutoPIPE to analyze the combined stiffness of the structure + piping model. Pipe-Structure connections are saved in both programs. Changed support loads can be exported multiple times to STAAD and new piping loads are updated automatically.

Scenario 4: Simplified Method

If you need to only use a small set of data, such as the STAAD displacement results in AutoPIPE, this is still possible. Here, only the structural displacements applied to pipe supports are used in AutoPIPE, but these can be updated multiple times.

This exciting new capability can greatly streamline your company's cross-discipline work and reduce costly errors resulting from manual data exchange designs.

eSeminar

To learn more, use your SELECT user account to watch an eSeminar on our PipeLink Integration tool:

http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Promo/AutoPIPE/eSeminars.htm

This is cross-posted on the Structural Analysis & Design blog.

AutoPIPE - STAAD Integration permits FASTER DESIGNS with LESS ASSUMPTIONS & COST SAVINGS

PipeLink easily integrates the Combined Piping and Structure Model in one analysis to produce a More Realistic & Safer Integrated Piping & Structural Model with 20 -30% less Project Design hours. 

PipeLink....

• Permits Less Assumptions for a more Accurate, Realistic Engineered Design
• Help provides for Safer Structure, Piping, & Equipment
• Helps to promote Potential Cost Savings on Pipe Supports & Steel Structure
• Single or Multiple User Integrated Models with Bi-Directional Data Exchange
• Considers the Structural Sway & Stiffness for more accurate, safer designs.
• Have the Ability to Connect a piping node to a distance along a beam member instead of simply a structure node
• Automatically connect pipe nodes to the closest structure node
• Save the supported node connections for the next revised piping model imported into STAAD
• Has Options for new generated loads to update the existing pipe loads instead of appending to the load case definition
• Can Transfer the nearest structure locations back to the pipe stress model
• Support Reactions can be translated Into Equivalent STAAD Load Cases on the Structural Model saving time and money.
• Multiple Pipe Model imports into STAAD.Pro are possible.
• Transfer Piping Hanger Support Onto The Structural Model Or Examine The Local Piping + Structure Interaction
• Identify Major Interferences from within STAAD or AutoPIPE and Perform detailed clash detection using Bentley Navigator
• As the piping model changes, the structural model will update itself!

FREE Live Seminars to sharpen your skills.  The Insider Skills series is offered weekly and AutoPIPE  is featured on week 2 of each month . 

Next seminar is November 8th .  Add these sessions to your calendar and use a single link to join all these sessions.

Event:  Insider Skills:  AutoPIPE

When: Friday's @ 1pm eastern/Noon central/10am pacific  (week 2 of every month)    

Where:  click here to join

Here is  our full schedule for 2013 (click attached file to add to your calendar):

ProStructures -  June 7,  July 5, August 2, September 6, October 4, November 1, December 6

AutoPIPE- June 14, July 12, August 9, September 13, October 11, November 8, December  6

STAAD -  June 21, July 19, August 16, September 20, October 18, November 15, December 13

RAM - June 28, July 26, August 30, September 27, October 25, November 22, December 13

Need to learn more about certain feature or workflow?  Email us and it could be featured  in our next Insider Skills. 

Missed a seminar? Click here for our recordings.

Plan for our seminar to be about 1 hour long.  Questions will be taken at the end of seminar.

Prior to joining our seminar check your system configuration.

System Configuration:

(https://www.elluminate.com/support)  this link will check your system and instruct you on any updates needed

• Download Java Web Start (download & run offline installer)

• Join the configuration room to complete the installation. Login using your name.

Participation Requirements:

• Network connection - Cable/DSL or higher (500kb/s min.)
• Screen Resolution - 1280 x 1024 minimum

Audio Requirements:

• Computer Headset or Computer Speakers

Looking for more FREE content?  Bookmark my Blog!

 Jessica Portuese's Blog

Hi,

I changed the near and far point names, but they don't show up on the drawing (only in input grid).

Can you guide me how to make them appear?

Thanks

Please see the following blog for more information related to AutoPIPE:

http://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/jessica_portuese_blog/default.aspx

Please click on the link below to give us your feedback on what topics you would like us to discuss during the 2014 eSeminar series:

Bentley AutoPIPE Vessel V8i is a stand-alone, Engineering application for the comprehensive calculation of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, tanks, and air coolers to ASME, European, French CODAP, German ADM,and Russian GOST standards. It is the only program to perform truly optimized vessel design in minutes and produce fully automated detailed drawings and cost estimates.

This is maintenance release 2 for AutoPIPE Vessel V8i which includes several bug fixes, cost estimate in U.S. units plus the following new features including the latest ASME 2013 code update and support for Solidworks 2011 to 2014 from maintenance release 1.

Design Codes

- Code Update PD5500 2012 Amendment A2:2013

- Code Update EN 13445-3 A1:2012

- Code Update EN 13445-2+A2:2012 Issue 5 (2013-07)

- Standard Update EN 1092-1:2007+A1:2013

- Calculation angle for saddle according to TEMA 8th Ed. RGP

For additional information on release notes and system requirements see the Readme document at the link below:

http://selectservices.bentley.com/en-US/Support/Downloads+And+Updates/Readme/Bentley+AutoPIPE+Vessel+V8i+v33020108.htm

Bentley AutoPIPE V8i is a stand-alone, engineering application for the calculation of piping stresses, fatigue stresses, fluid transient, bowing or thermal transient analysis, flange or pipe support design, and equipment nozzle loading analysis under static and dynamic loading conditions. In addition to 24 piping codes, AutoPIPE incorporates ASME, JSME, British Standard, European, API, NEMA, ANSI, ASCE, AISC, UBC, GOST and WRC guidelines and design limits to provide a comprehensive analysis of the entire system.

This is a patch release for AutoPIPE V8i SELECTseries 5 (v09.06.00.15, released October 2013) which includes several bug fixes including the following critical and major errors. For an explanation of these errors you can download the document at the link HERE.

Critical Errors

• Temperature dependent data not updated on modifying temperature for points range
• Different hot modulus value not used for analysis for points on the same pipe ID
• Incorrect analysis results with imposed disp. or anchor movement on soil points

Major Errors

• Maximum expansion (EXP) added at moment level not associating thermal case
• Thermal bowing: "Instantaneous expansion coeff. for NS materials" is not used
• Absolute axial stress not used for calculating expansion stress for B31.3 (2012)
• Ce factor and exposure category is not retained in UBC wind profile dialog

We want to sincerely apologize for the delay it required to release this patch. We continue to strive to provide quality products in accordance with our Nuclear Quality Assurance program approved to ASME NQA-1 and therefore must meet these rigorous standards which often requires a lot of effort in testing and verification.

Also included with this release is a new tutorial & sample model for the ISO 14692 FRP code.

For additional information on release notes and system requirements see the Read Me document.

Accurately modeling buried piping can be an intimidating task. There are multiple factors to take into account and features within AutoPIPE that need to be understood to be properly used. In this webinar we will show some of the intricacies that need to be addressed when modeling buried piping systems. Bonus material includes ASME B31 2012 Code major changes explained.

Dates: June 17th (North America), June 18th (Europe / Middle East), June 19th (Asia / India)

Time: Check registration page for local time in your area

Duration: 1 hour (45-minute presentation, 15-minute live Q&A)

Register here
http://pages.info.bentley.com/webinars/

For accurate Pipestress models, learn why and how to easily model Vessels and Vessel Nozzle flexibility as well as  capturing full ASME VIII flange design checks on all flanges in AutoPIPE. We will also review the additional local load analysis, flange and nozzle flexibility and reinforcement design methods in AutoPIPE Vessel including optimization available.

Date: July 22nd (North America), July 23rd (Europe / Middle East), July 24th (Asia / India)

Time: Check registration page for local time in your area

Duration: 1 hour (45-minute presentation, 15-minute live Q&A)

Register here
http://pages.info.bentley.com/webinars/

The complexity of some piping systems and how they are accurately modeled can be quite challenging. In this webinar, we will show you examples of some of these complex systems and how users are modeling them.
Examples include:
 •Solving expansion Joint design on hot piping
 •Designing Pumping stations
 •Important Seismic design considerations
 •Hot Piping Clash Detection to quickly identify interferences during operation
 •Using STAAD integration for safer engineering designs

Duration: 45-minute presentation

View Recording Here:

http://pages.info.bentley.com/event-details-ae/?SKID=CT_SMM_ESEM_AUTOP_05_14&asocial=social_20140522_23051854&eventGUID=9a0b7bda-596d-48f4-b441-bf53359a83df