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Expansion effects on structural members

Currently, when structural members/beams are connected to high temp piping, AutoPIPE does not consider the axial expansion effect of the structural members in its analysis. Since AutoPIPE, is capable of evaluating temperature effect of piping, it ...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed 18 days ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Include ASME B16.5 dimensions in EN1591 Flange Analysis

Currently, the EN1591 flange analysis only includes PN flange dimensions. Theoretically, you could manually input all the dimensions for an ASME flange but that would be extremely tedious to do every time. There is some ambiguity/"looseness" with ...
Sean Pellerin 18 days ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Add Snow and Ice load to structural and pipe members

Snow loads should be considered in the GR load case during analysis and design for static seismic loads, to account for the contribution of snow mass to horizontal seismic inertia forces.
Shrey Sharma 2 months ago in Analysis 2 Needs review

Update Joint Type SIF Sus Tors Index to read "Auto" instead of "1.00"

When a Joint type and user SIF are inserted, the Sus Tors. Index value will actually be computed in the post processor. In the meantime, AutoPIPE displays a value of "1.00" in the dialog, which can be misleading for the user. It is recommended to ...
Mike Dattilio 4 months ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Add features to include Type A/B fitting pressure factor for En13480 piping code

Add options into application that accommodates En13480 table A.2 specification for all fittings per En10253 requirements to define pressure factors to be applied to fittings of Type A and wall thickness requirements of fittings of Type B. Add opti...
Shrey Sharma 9 months ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Add ability to group analysis sets which represent different analysis cases

Piping Stress, Pipe Support, and Foundation load generation require different analysis conditions using different seismic loads to meet differing code requirements. Currently, this is difficult to manage in the same autopipe file as users may have...
Sujaan Ahamed Fareed 10 months ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Apply wind Shape factor to pipe properties instead of everything as it varies due to geometry in AS1170.2

You currently only have 1 place to input the Wind shape factor and this is applied to all pipes but the value is different for each diameter in Accordance with AS1170.2. This value could be input in the pipe properties for individual pipe sizes, t...
Paul Nielsen 11 months ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Add option in pipe support data "Support", column for "Rigid for Hydrotest"

Pls add option in the pipe support "Support" data, column to allow users option to check mark pipe support node points where spring rate/stiffness are provided. (Note: for spring types, default will have the check-mark activated). For example, usi...
Guest 12 months ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Option to calculate transportational vibrations during shipment of the pipes

Currently, there is no option to analyze transportational vibrations on a pipe line when it is being shipping to a different location, specially for skid mounted piping. This allows users to identify shipping supports which can be removed after th...
Guest about 1 year ago in Analysis 0 Needs review

Add redundant anchor for thermal load only

As AutoPipe limited node to 10000 only, for bigger model we model part of the system and we need to apply boundary conditions at the discontinuous node, if it is defined as anchor and apply node displacement (for thermal growth) this fictitious an...
Guest about 1 year ago in Analysis 0 Needs review