 PipePak's built-in library manager enables engineers to add, modify and
remove common piping data. |
 Engineers at the County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County used ALGOR's PipePak to evaluate loads at the support locations of this odor control piping system, which is part of the Joint Water Pollution Control Plant in Carson, California.
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 Interactive dynamic clipping planes can be used to slice and hide areas of a complex piping network. |
PipePak's Report Wizard and environment provides automatic generation and
display of HTML or text-based reports that summarize input; equipment data;
analysis results including code stress allowables and stress ratios; and more. |
 A frequency response analysis was performed on this section of a piping system to determine its dynamic response to a sinusoidal force generated by a pump in the system.
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Window-Native Interface
PipePak’s
Windows-native graphical user interface provides:
- right-click functionality,
multiple views and
docking toolbars
- a
tree view that provides easy navigation and review of all piping system
data
- a
data entry dialog view that facilitates easy data entry, review and
modification
- the capability to
cut, copy and paste data from individual and multiple spreadsheet cells
and rows
- an integrated
report view that displays input and output reports
- real-time
data checking for reasonable input
- a built-in
library manager that enables engineers to add, modify and remove data for pipe size, material properties, allowable stress,
valves, flanges, wind loads, seismic
loads, pump allowables, hangers and plastic pipe properties.
Structural Analysis in Compliance with
Industry-Standard Piping Codes
PipePak features a built-in, fast bandwidth minimization algorithm and sequential equation solver
for performing structural analysis in compliance with industry-standard piping codes.
Analysis capabilities include linear static stress, natural frequency (modal),
response spectrum (single and multiple), frequency response and time history.
PipePak supports industry-standard piping codes including revisions through:
- ASME B31.1-2004 Power Piping
- ASME B31.3b-2004 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
Powerful Visualization
A built-in graphics environment provides extensive results evaluation and
presentation capabilities including:
- 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
- built-in checking of all results for ASME and ANSI code compliance
- dynamic clipping planes for interactively slicing and hiding areas of a
complex piping network
- the ability to output result contours and images of piping networks as
BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, PCX and TGA formats
Built-in HTML and Text Report Generation
Formatted, customized reports can be generated using the
Report Wizard, which summarizes input, equipment data and analysis results,
including code stress allowables and stress ratios. The HTML report can include model graphics or a company logo. The HTML report automatically highlights output rows where the calculated
stresses are above the allowable stresses to
facilitate results evaluation. Text-only reports may also be generated, viewed and edited in PipePak's Report View
environment.
To see a sample report generated by the HTML Report Wizard, click here.
Extensible to a Broad Range of FEA and Mechanical Event Simulation Tools
Models of specific piping components can be created within leading CAD solid
modelers, PV/Designer or ALGOR's precision finite element model-building tool and then analyzed with ALGOR's FEA and Mechanical Event Simulation
(MES) capabilities.
InCAD
technology provides full associativity with leading CAD solid modelers
such as Autodesk Inventor, CADKEY, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Rhinoceros, Solid Edge
and SolidWorks. PV/Designer
enables engineers to quickly use templates to create parametric piping entities
such as pressure vessels and intersecting pipes. ALGOR
also provides a precision finite element model-building tool, Superdraw, to allow engineers
to edit and enhance CAD geometry or build geometry from scratch. Structural components
can be built using beam and truss elements, including standard cross-sections from the AISC library.
These modeling tools support ALGOR’s wide range of simulation
capabilities including static stress and MES with linear and nonlinear material models, linear dynamics, steady-state and transient heat transfer, steady and unsteady fluid flow, electrostatics, full multiphysics and piping.
Common applications of these capabilities include optimizing the flow through components,
ensuring the safety of components in high-temperature environments and
examining how the temperature changes of fluid within the piping system influence structural integrity.
Flexible License Management
All ALGOR software supports LAN and WAN networked
license sharing; enterprise-wide and remote-use licensing; and single,
node-locked licensing.
Customer Service
Software support and service includes a technical service engineer and account manager assigned specifically to each
account, online customer account management tools, keystroke-specific tutorials, an
accuracy verification CD-ROM and
process-oriented documentation with every purchase; Internet-based, streaming-video
Webcasts for free software demonstrations; in-depth
distance learning Web Courses;
e-mail news bulletins and frequent,
automatic software updates.
Software support and service
includes a technical service
engineer assigned specifically
to each account.
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