• Piping Systems
  • Linear static stress analysis
  • Natural frequency (modal)
  • Response spectrum (single and multiple)
  • Frequency response
  • Time history
  • Supports industry-standard piping codes including revisions through:
    • ASME B31.1-2001 Power Piping
    • ASME B31.3b-2002 Process Piping
    • ASME B31.4a-2002 Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and Other Liquids
    • ASME B31.8a-2000 Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems
    • ASME Section III Division 1 - Subsection NC Class 2 Components (2002)
    • ASME Section III Division 1 - Subsection ND Class 3 Components (2002)
    • British Standard BS 806 (1993)
    • European Standard EN 13480-3:2002
  • "In-line" analysis of flanges, reducers and rotating equipment
  • Built-in nozzle flexibility calculations
• Frame Structures
  • Static stress with linear material models
  • Weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia
    

• Piping Systems

  • Includes easy-to-use options for defining a complete piping system (pipe runs and components) using:
    • A spreadsheet to enter coordinates
    • A graphical drawing package
    • Various geometric import operations:
      • Import piping data from CADPIPE (.ude, .cty) files
      • Import piping data from CAESAR II (.cii) files
      • Import piping data from Intergraph PDS (.neu, .pds) files
      • Import piping data from AutoCAD (.dxf) or IGES (.igs) files into Superdraw III and then transfer drawing (.esd) files
    • Any combination of graphical drawing, spreadsheet data entry or importing of geometry
  • Includes industry-standard piping components including:
    • ANSI pipe size specifications
    • ANSI B16.5 (Gasket Diameter) flanges
  • Hanger design and selection including:
    • Basic Engineers
    • Bergen Paterson
    • Flexider
    • Grinell
    • Power Piping
  • Expansion joint design and selection
  • Includes common piping data
    • Stress intensification factors
    • Concentrated forces
    • Concentrated weights
    • Concentrated masses
    • Cut short/long
  • Support for underground piping systems
  • Support for jacketed pipe
• Frame Structures

  • CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in CDL, DXF and IGES file formats
  • Capability to combine all element types available for a given analysis type in a single model
  • Capability to define loads and constraints relative to a local coordinate system
  • Interactive definition of beam cross-section orientation
  • Capability to define beam offset locations
  • Capability to import FEA models that are stored in ABAQUS, ANSYS, FEMAP, NASTRAN, PATRAN or SDRC file formats

• Piping Systems

  • Isotropic
  • Orthotropic
  • Fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP)
• Frame Structures

  • Linear elastic isotropic

• Piping Systems
  • Forces
  • Moments
  • Prescribed displacements
  • Temperatures
  • Pressures
  • Occasional loads
    • Wind
    • Earthquake
    • Pitch and roll for shipboard piping
  • Simultaneous, multiple pressure, thermal, displacement and occasional loads
  • Includes common piping constraints and supports
    • Anchors
    • Rigid supports
    • Spring supports
    • Constant force hangers
    • Undesigned hangers
    • Snubber supports
    • Guide supports
    • Linestop supports
    • Rotational supports
    • Inclined supports
    • One-way restraint supports
    • Limitstop supports
    • Support displacement
  • Includes effects of friction between pipe and supports
• Frame Structures
  • Forces
  • Moments
  • Temperatures
  • Prescribed displacements
  • Prescribed rotations
  • Distributed loads
  • Gravitational forces
  • Centrifugal forces
  • Global and off-axis constraints
  • Variable-stiffness off-axis constraints
  • End releases
    

• Piping Systems
  • Built-in, fast bandwidth minimization algorithm and sequential equation solver
• Frame Structures
  • Symmetric sparse
  • Skyline
  • Iterative
  • Banded
  • Parallel processing for multiple processors

• Piping Systems

  • Viewing by diameter, schedule, wall thickness, corrosion allowance, insulation, content, material, pressure and temperature
  • Display of piping networks in either wireframe or shaded view
  • Control over model display options including the display of dimension lines, point names, labels and symbols
  • Dynamic clipping planes for interactively slicing and hiding areas of a complex piping network
  • Interactive selection of components of the piping network through either the tree view or OpenGL graphics window
  • Displays deflected shapes, forces and moments, mode shapes and stress contours including code stress, principal stress, longitudinal stress and hoop stress
  • Displays deflection and modal analysis result animations
  • Annotations that highlight the location of the minimum and maximum result values
  • Text listing (time-varying where applicable) of:
    • Displacements
    • Forces
    • Moments
    • Support reactions
    • Stresses
  • Built-in checking of all results for ASME and ANSI code compliance
  • Automatic highlighting of output rows in an HTML report where the calculated stresses are above the allowable stresses
  • Rotating equipment reports including:
    • API610 pumps (8th Edition)
    • NEMA SM23 turbines
  • Built-in options to quickly change load cases to verify model and extract numerical data from any analysis visualization
  • Inquire on analysis results by clicking on any component in the piping network
• Frame Structures

  • Integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation
  • 3-D dynamic viewing options and rich colors provided by OpenGL-based displays
  • Material and result rendering for model and analysis visualization
  • Cross-sectional viewing options
  • Dynamic clipping planes for slicing models
  • Capability to display parts as transparent (translucent)
  • Multiple methods for selecting parts or elements in order to hide areas of the model
  • Result contours of:
    • Displacement
    • Stress
    • Strain
    • Reaction force
  • • Factor of safety
  • Annotations that highlight the location of the minimum and maximum result values
  • Capability to define result probes at desired locations
  • Annotation of graph values
  • Capability to display or graph results in an arbitrary orientation using a local coordinate system
  • Capability to simultaneously view varying result types through multiple view windows
  • Shear and bending moment diagrams
  • Text output of weight, volume, center of gravity, mass moment of inertia and products of inertia
  • Precision contouring for accuracy assessment
  • Capability to combine the results of multiple linear static stress analyses
  • Graphs convergence for linear static iterative solver
  • Built-in, virtual instrumentation through Monitor for result graphs
  • Automatic display of units in the results legend
  • Uses TrueType fonts for legend and annotations
  • Dynamic controls for positioning the results legend, annotations and background images
  • Pre-defined and user-defined color palettes for result contours
  • Slider to dynamically control the scale and display of the displaced model
  • Capability to display the undisplaced model using transparency
  • Slider for controlling the display of elements based on a lower or upper result limit
  • Capability to individually control the color, mesh and display of results for each part
  • Realistic visualization of beam elements
  • Point-and-click result inquiry options
  • Inquire mode enables results from selected objects or load and constraint data to be displayed and available for copy and paste operations to other applications
  • Result text listing
  • Support for exporting results to common Windows applications
  • Capability to save all settings for a specific presentation and view that same display at any time or use those settings with a different model

RESULTS PRESENTATION

• Piping Systems

  • Output result contours and images of piping networks as BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, PCX and TGA formats
  • Built-in animation creation and display tools
  • Report Wizard for automatic generation of HTML or text-based reports that summarize input, equipment data and analysis results, including code stress allowables and stress ratios
• Frame Structures

  • VRML utility to generate 3-D, web-based models
  • Output result contours and graphs as BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, PCX and TGA formats
  • Integrated animation creation and display tools
  • Automatic image generation of each result presentation for inclusion in reports
  • Report Wizard and environment for automatic HTML generation and display

USER INTERFACE

• Piping Systems

  • Windows-native interface with right-click functionality, multiple views and docking toolbars
  • Tree view that provides easy navigation and review of all piping system data
  • Data entry dialog view that facilitates easy data entry, review and modification
  • Capability to cut, copy and paste data from individual and multiple spreadsheet cells and rows
  • Capability to directly move to the spreadsheet rows that define the component(s) selected in the visualization view
  • 3-D dynamic viewing options, including pan, rotate and zoom options
  • Built-in library manager for adding, modifying and removing data for pipe size, material properties, allowable stress, valves, flanges, wind loads, seismic, pump allowables, hangers and plastic pipe properties
  • Built-in data checking for reasonable input
  • Limit checking for allowable temperature ranges
  • Support for standard and custom unit systems
  • Easy application of stress intensification factors for piping components, such as lap joint flanges, valves and elbows, which have a varying thickness and other physical properties
• Frame Structures

  • Windows-native interface with tree views, multiple views and docking toolbars
  • Right-click application, modification and deletion of loads, constraints and FEA properties
  • Shortcut keyboard and mouse controls for dynamic viewing options
  • Capability to input equations into data input screens
  • Built-in data checking for reasonable input
  • Load and constraint set capabilities for managing different design scenarios
  • Drag and drop of loads and constraints
  • Material Library Manager includes a library featuring materials from MatWeb and provides the capability to import, create and manage customized libraries
  • Capability to exchange material data with third-party material libraries through XML
  • Right-click, context-sensitive help
  • Support for standard and custom unit systems
  • Capability to specify graphs using mathematical expressions
  • Control over all graph labels and axis indicators
  • Pre-defined and user-defined graph display styles
  • Data management utility for archiving models

AUTOMATION

• API for reading ALGOR results and using the automatic 3-D meshing tools
• Published, centralized file format
• Built-in script and macro tools
• Add-In Manager provides ability for third-party plug-ins that offer extended software functionality
• Support for plug-and-play analysis add-ons
• Capability to define a user-defined result type
• EAGLE, a programming language designed to assist in performing repetitive tasks, conducting parametric or variational FEA studies, optimizing designs and performing FEA and MES analyses which require multiphysics

CONFIGURATION

• Support for LAN and WAN networked license sharing; enterprise-wide and remote-use licensing; and single, node-locked licensing
• Support for redundant servers

   

   

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