PipePak           Core Package 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. In addition, this core package includes capabilities for designing beam/truss models for static stress analysis using a precision finite element model-building tool and FEMPRO, an easy-to-use, single user interface for finite element modeling, results evaluation and presentation. Typical Applications Compressor selection to avoid a piping system's natural frequency Food processing plant Fuel systems Furnace piping Heat exchanger fabricators Heating and cooling steam systems in buildings Hydrocarbon processing systems Liquid pipeline system design Nuclear piping system design Offshore processing systems Pipe rerouting Piping restraint re-evaluation Piping systems in NASA testing facilities and support facilities, such as power production sites Plastic product manufacturing plant design Process chemical systems Pulp and paper piping systems Pump/flange leakage Reciprocating compressor piping vibration problems Retrofitting piping systems with new materials Rotating equipment seal problems Shock testing of piping systems on naval ships Skid system analysis Steam distribution systems under airport runways Steam piping Turbine trip and steam hammer Analysis Capabilities 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 B31.1-2007 Power Piping ASME B31.3b-2006 Process Piping ASME B31.4a-2006 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 Modeling 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 Export model to CAESAR II (.cii) file 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 Beam modeling including direct access to AISC section property data Capability to import FEA models that are stored in ABAQUS, ANSYS, FEMAP®*, NASTRAN, PATRAN or SDRC file formats *FEMAP is a registered trademark of UGS Corp. of Plano, Texas. Element Library Piping Systems Pipes Bends Valves Reducers Bellows Flanges Tees Frame Structures 3-D truss element 3-D beam element Gap element Cable element Rigid element Click here for a more detailed element library Material models Piping Systems Isotropic Orthotropic Fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP) Frame Structures Linear elastic isotropic Loading and Constraints 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 (nodal, gravitational and centrifugal) Moments Temperatures Prescribed displacements Prescribed rotations Distributed loads Global and off-axis constraints Variable-stiffness off-axis constraints End releases Local coordinate system support Lumped masses Mass moments of inertia Solver Options Piping Systems Built-in, fast bandwidth minimization algorithm and sequential equation solver Frame Structures Symmetric sparse Skyline Algebraic multigrid (AMG) iterative Banded Parallel processing for multiple processors Distributed memory processing (32- and 64-bit Linux [Red Hat]) Results Evaluation 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, support reactions 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 Result displays of: Displacement Stress Strain Reaction force Factor of safety User-supplied functions operating on calculated results, user-supplied constraints and material properties AISC (ASD 1989) code checking Shear and bending moment diagrams Precision contouring for accuracy assessment Built-in, virtual instrumentation through Monitor for result graphs Point-and-click result inquiry options Result text listing Support for exporting results to common Windows applications Capability to define result probes at desired locations Dynamic clipping planes for slicing models Realistic visualization of elements Capability to display parts as transparent (translucent) 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, PDF or text-based reports that summarize input, equipment data and analysis results, including code stress allowables and stress ratios Frame Structures 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 VRML utility to generate 3-D, web-based models with results Export a model's visualization data to third-party HOOPS Stream File (HSF) format 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 or PDF 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, plastic pipe properties and code allowables 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 Capability to import constraints from ASCII text files Shortcut keyboard and mouse controls for dynamic viewing options Capability to use mathematical expressions for data entry Built-in data checking for reasonable input Load and constraint set capabilities for managing different design scenarios Drag and drop Material Library Manager includes a library featuring materials from MatWeb and provides the capability to import, create and manage customized libraries Right-click, context-sensitive help Support for standard and custom unit systems 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 Customization options for user control over default settings, displays, annotations, reports and much more Frame Structures Internationalized language support including: Graphical user interface and user documentation in Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Italian and Spanish Automatic language detection based on Windows regional settings Convenient selection of language of user's choice Support for Windows (32- and 64-bit), Linux (32- and 64-bit) and HP-UX (64-bit) operating systems Ability to run an analysis on a remote computer Support for 3-D motion controllers from 3Dconnexion including SpacePilot, SpaceBall, SpaceMouse and SpaceTraveler Customizable mouse functionality including pre-defined and user-defined templates Support for LAN and WAN 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