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CONNECT Edition

Bentley AutoPIPE
® ®

Comprehensive Software for Pipe Stress Analysis

Bentley AutoPIPE is a design and analysis program for

calculating piping code stresses, loads, and deflections under
static and dynamic load conditions, even to the highest nuclear
standards. Costly plant shutdowns caused by pipes moving as
they heat up can be avoided with 3D ‘hot’ clash detection. This
functionality can also be used to avoid piping failures during
extreme loading conditions (like earthquakes). AutoPIPE also
includes special features for advanced buried pipeline analysis,
wave loading, fluid transients, FRP/GRP or plastic pipe, as well
as time-saving integrations with STAAD.Pro® and all major
plant design systems.

Integrated Modeling and Documentation Workflows

The CONNECT Edition provides a common environment for comprehensive project
delivery and connects users, projects, and your enterprise. With the CONNECT Edition, Bentley AutoPIPE includes clash detection to avoid costly operation failures.
you now have a personal portal to access learning, communities, and project
information. You can also share personal files directly from your desktop with other Graphical Review of Analysis Results
users, or stage them for easy access from a Bentley mobile app, such as Navigator Once a system is analyzed, users can click on the graphical model and instantly view
Mobile. With the new project portal, your project teams can review project details stresses, deflections, forces, and moments. Color-coded results and pop-up windows
and status, and gain visibility into project performance. With the CONNECT Edition, enable users to quickly identify and investigate critical areas without having to review
your project team may also wish to take advantage of the new ProjectWise® a voluminous amount of batch output data. Up to 1,000 load combinations can be
Connection Services including Project Performance Dashboards and Issues Resolution. viewed with the powerful on-screen results grid, which provides interactive filtering,
sorting, and printing of maximum result values.
Unique, Object-based Graphical User Interface
The OpenGL CAD graphical user interface found in Bentley AutoPIPE enables Interface with AutoPIPE Vessel, STAAD.Pro, Plant Design
users to easily create and modify the pipe stress model. Users can simply point CAD Systems, and ProjectWise
and click on the graphical model to insert, modify, or delete pipe supports, AutoPIPE can automatically transfer pipe support loads as well as import complete
loads, or components. After each operation, the model display is automatically structures to and from STAAD.Pro V8i, saving weeks of design time and providing safer,
updated for instant visual feedback. Using AutoPIPE graphical select options, more-realistic engineered designs. In addition, AutoPIPE can now transfer piping
users can insert, delete, or modify components, supports, pipe properties, nozzle loads on vessels to AutoPIPE Vessel for final vessel design. Import 3D plant design
temperatures/pressures, or other parameters across an entire range of points CAD models from AutoPLANT® V8i, PlantSpace® V8i, OpenPlant V8i, Intergraph PDS,
with one command. Graphical selection of ranges is also used to cut, copy, and SmartPlant, CADWORX, SolidWorks, Inventor, Plant 3D, CATIA, and Aveva PDMS, into
paste operations. Users can check, sort, or make changes to the input data quickly AutoPIPE to save hundreds of man-hours and ensure accurate pipe stress models.
using interactive grid spreadsheets like Excel. AutoPIPE features up to 99 undo
or redo steps to correct mistakes, perform ‘what-if’ analysis, or to iterate quickly AutoPIPE provides users with full read/write interoperability with Caesar II, and
through design scenarios. 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
Advanced Analysis Features for Varied Piping Environments detection, and reduce design iterations. AutoPIPE also generates fully dimensioned
stress isometrics with custom data and comments highlighting the pipe stress
AutoPIPE provides unique capabilities for process, power, oil and gas, nuclear,
engineer’s changes. In addition, AutoPIPE is integrated with ProjectWise for
underground, offshore floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) platform
global collaboration of engineering and CAD data files on major projects.
and subsea pipeline areas with 25 international piping codes. Advanced AutoPIPE
capabilities include nonlinear hydrotest analysis, built-in wave loading, buried pipeline
analysis, jacketed piping, dynamic loadings, orthotropic fiberglass reinforced plastic Quality Assurance
(FRP/GRP), and HDPE plastic piping analysis. It also includes thermal stratification AutoPIPE’s rigorous quality assurance program has passed numerous nuclear and
or bowing, thermal transient, pipe/structure interaction, fluid transient with closure Nuclear Procurement Issues Committee (NUPIC) audits to 10CFR50 App. B, ISO9001,
time and relief valve utilities, advanced load sequencing, non-linear support gaps CSA N286.7-99, ASME NQA-1, and ANSI N45.2 standards, making Bentley AutoPIPE
and friction and jacketed piping. Local stress calculation to WRC 107, WRC 297, PD one of the few pipe stress programs with a high level of quality. AutoPIPE Nuclear
5500, KHK, and API 650 is available using AutoPIPE Nozzle. V8i provides design of critical safety pipework to ASME Class 1, 2, or 3.
System Requirements Bentley AutoPIPE At-A-Glance
Processor
Pentium III or higher Modeling • ASME N755 HDPE Code Case
• Single line, wire-frame, and solid-render drawing modes • Russian SNIP 2.05.06-85 Oil and Gas
Operating System • CAD style single, double, or quad view ports • Swedish Piping Code (SPC) Method 2
Windows 7 Professional (32- or • Norwegian DNV-OS-F101 offshore code & TBK 5-6
• Vertical axis (Y or Z) can be switched on the fly
64-bit), Windows 8 or 8.1 (32- or
• On-screen distance calculator for accurate • Dutch Stoomwezen D1101
64-bit), Windows 10 (32- or 64-bit)
coordinate checks • Japanese KHK, MITI class 3, JSME NC1-PPC and
Memory • Built-in valve actuator for more accurate valve modeling General Fire Protection code
512 MB RAM Hard Disk 500 MB • Segment management: reverse, split, join, and • French RCC-M and SNCT
Hard Disk re-order segments
Analysis
256 MB • CAD line class and line numbers
• Unlimited static analysis to examine different loading
• Connectivity checker to avoid model disconnects scenarios including hot modulus for any combination of
• English, metric, SI, and user-defined units 100 thermal, 30 seismic, 10 wind, and 50 dynamic load cases.
• Extensive ANSI/ASME, DIN, EN, JIS, GD, GB, GOST, and • Automatic generation of wind profiles per ASCE and
Find out about Bentley GRP/FRP standard piping component and material libraries UBC guidelines
• Structural steel modeling using structural databases • Wave loading and buoyancy for offshore applications
at: www.bentley.com for 17 countries • Non-linear hydrotest analysis with gaps and friction for
Contact Bentley • Expansion joint modeling with tie rod assemblies more realistic design
1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) • Model import from OpenPlant V8i, MicroStation, AutoPLANT • Fluid transient utilities for water and steam hammer
Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 V8i, PlantSpace V8i, PlantFLOW, Microsoft Excel®, Autodesk plus relief valve load analysis
AutoCAD, Inventor, Plant 3D, Intergraph PDS, SmartPlant, • Automatic spring hanger sizing from 27 manufacturers
Global Office Listings
CADWORX, Aveva PDMS, Dassault SolidWorks, and CATIA
www.bentley.com/contact • State-of-the-art nonlinear support gap, friction, yielding,
• PIPELINK bi-directional integration with STAAD.Pro V8i and soil interaction with advanced features of seismic wave
• Automatic stress isometric generation in DGN, DWG or DXF propagation, overburden and settlement loads,
formats with engineers’ mark-ups and stresses to ASCE, AWWA, and ASME
• Model geometry data export into AutoPLANT V8i, • Thermal stratification bowing analysis
MicroStation V8i, AutoCAD, Inventor, and SolidWorks • Thermal transient analysis (TTA), fatigue and high
• Automated ring main wizard energy/leakage design for ASME Class 1 piping
• Automatic ASCE or PRCI (recommended over ASCE) • Seismic static and response spectra load generator
soil calculator to IBC, Euro, ASCE, Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and
Chinese standards as well as alternative requirements from
Dynamic Analysis
CSA for nuclear designs
• Time history dynamic analysis with ground motion
• Ec/Eh ratio applied to expansion stresses for
• Mode shapes, accelerations, and natural frequencies any piping code
• Harmonic load analysis • Integrated flange loading analysis per ASME VIII
• Uniform & MSRS response spectrum and shock spectra Div 1 and 2, ASME III App XI, and ANSI B16.5
• Multiple spectrum enveloping • Nozzle flexibility analysis per API 650 App. P,
• NRC spectra and code case N411 (PVRC) damping ASME Class 1, WRC 297 and Biljaard methods
and spectra
• NUREG.CR-1677, CR-6414, and CR-6049 benchmarks Input and Results
• Automatic mass discretization • Results saved to Microsoft Access MDB file for
• Missing mass and ZPA correction post-processing
• Automatic or user-defined load combinations grid
Piping Codes • Automated batch processing
• ASME B31.1, B31.3, B31.4 on and offshore, and • Maximum intermediate stresses
B31.8 on and offshore (multiple years from 1967) • Reference point for manufacturer equipment loading reports
• ASME Sec. III Class I, II, and III (multiple years from 1972) • Rotating equipment calculations to API 610, NEMA
• European Standard Metallic Industrial Piping EN13480 SM-23, and API 617, and user-defined standards
• Canadian CAN/CSA–Z662 On & Offshore Codes • Results can be filtered and sorted by stress, deflection,
• British Standard BS 806, BS 7159 (GRP piping code) or load criteria
• FRP ISO 14692

Bentley AutoPIPE provides bi-directional integration with Users can click on the graphical model to instantly
STAAD.Pro for more efficient, accurate engineering designs. view stresses.
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