This core package provides piping system designers
and engineers with a tool for defining complete piping
systems and performing structural analysis in compliance
with industry-standard piping codes. PipePak's capabilities
for design, analysis, validation and reporting enable
engineers to create better, more reliable piping systems
faster.
TYPICAL APPLICATIONS
- Fuel systems
- Liquid pipeline system design
- Heat exchanger fabricators
- Nuclear piping system design
- Pipe rerouting
- Plastic product manufacturing plant design
- Food processing plant
- Pump/flange leakage
- Rotating equipment seal problems
- Shock testing of piping systems on naval
ships
- Steam distribution systems under airport
runways
- Steam piping
- Piping systems in NASA testing facilities
and support facilities, such as power production
sites
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- Furnace piping
- Hydrocarbon processing systems
- Heating and cooling steam systems in buildings
- Offshore processing systems
- Piping restraint re-evaluation
- Process chemical systems
- Pulp and paper piping systems
- Reciprocating compressor piping vibration
problems
- Retrofitting piping systems with new materials
- Skid system analysis
- Turbine trip and steam hammer
- Compressor selection to avoid a piping system's
natural frequency
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ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES
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Piping Systems
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Linear static stress analysis
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Natural frequency (modal)
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Response spectrum (single
and multiple)
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Frequency response
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Time history
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Supports industry-standard
piping codes including revisions through:
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ASME B31.1-2001 Power
Piping
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ASME B31.3b-2002 Process
Piping
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ASME B31.4a-2002 Pipeline
Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons
and Other Liquids
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ASME B31.8a-2000 Gas
Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems
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ASME Section III Division
1 - Subsection NC Class 2 Components (2002)
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ASME Section III Division
1 - Subsection ND Class 3 Components (2002)
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British Standard BS
806 (1993)
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European Standard EN
13480-3:2002
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"In-line" analysis
of flanges, reducers and rotating equipment
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Built-in nozzle flexibility
calculations
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Frame Structures
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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
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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
ELEMENT LIBRARY
- Piping Systems
- Pipes
- Bends
- Valves
- Reducers
- Bellows
- Flanges
- Tees
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- Frame Structures
- 3-D truss element
- 3-D beam element
- Gap element
- Cable element
- Rigid element
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MATERIAL MODELS
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Piping Systems
- Isotropic
- Orthotropic
- Fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP)
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Piping Systems
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Forces
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Moments
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Prescribed displacements
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Temperatures
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Pressures
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Occasional loads
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Simultaneous, multiple pressure,
thermal, displacement and occasional loads
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Includes common piping constraints
and supports
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Includes effects of friction
between pipe and supports
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Frame Structures
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Piping Systems
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Frame Structures
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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
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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
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Annotations that highlight
the location of the minimum and maximum result
values
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Capability to define result
probes at desired locations
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Annotation of graph values
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Capability to display or
graph results in an arbitrary orientation using
a local coordinate system
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Capability to simultaneously
view varying result types through multiple view
windows
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Shear and bending moment
diagrams
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Text output of weight, volume,
center of gravity, mass moment of inertia and
products of inertia
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Precision contouring for
accuracy assessment
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Capability to combine the
results of multiple linear static stress analyses
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Graphs convergence for linear
static iterative solver
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Built-in, virtual instrumentation
through Monitor for result graphs
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Automatic display of units
in the results legend
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Uses TrueType fonts for
legend and annotations
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Dynamic controls for positioning
the results legend, annotations and background
images
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Pre-defined and user-defined
color palettes for result contours
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Slider to dynamically control
the scale and display of the displaced model
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Capability to display the
undisplaced model using transparency
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Slider for controlling the
display of elements based on a lower or upper
result limit
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Capability to individually
control the color, mesh and display of results
for each part
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Realistic visualization
of beam elements
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Point-and-click result inquiry
options
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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
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Result text listing
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Support for exporting results
to common Windows applications
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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API for reading ALGOR results
and using the automatic 3-D meshing tools
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Published, centralized file
format
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Built-in script and macro tools
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Add-In Manager provides ability
for third-party plug-ins that offer extended software
functionality
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Support for plug-and-play analysis
add-ons
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Capability to define a user-defined
result type
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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
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