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AutoPIPE Pipe Stress

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    Add a feature to apply impose displacement at any node point regardless of support settings.

    This is to apply at nodes where support is not applied so the user can apply imposed discplacement regardless of support setting.
    Guest 11 months ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

    Angle measurement

    It is important to know not only the distance between the two points but also the angle of the pipe with respect to the coordinate axes during creating and modifying a model. I would like you to add another item to the Tools menu called Angle Meas...
    Guest over 4 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 3 Future consideration

    Allow gap supports with response spectra analysis

    Response spectrum analysis is a static equivalent linear analysis to a dynamic earthquake event. AutoPIPE allows the use of V-Stops with gaps for static analysis. The condition of the gap closure and subsequent support loading is determined by eva...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

    Increase tag length or remove the restriction altogether (like Caesar II)

    The current max length of tags is 36 characters. Tag is meanwhile just about the only play where we can save some element-specific information. For example in the case of a Support I would like to save AT LEAST the following:1) The designation of ...
    Guest over 4 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 0 Future consideration

    Evaluate ASME B16.5/47 flanges per ASME BPVC VIII-1 UG-44(b)

    ASME B31.3-2022 F312 FLANGED JOINTS suggests using UG-44(b) "for qualifying piping external loadings on welding neck flanges". UG-44(b) is a modification of the very conservative equivalent pressure method.
    Sean Pellerin almost 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration

    Combination Reorganization

    In the screenshot in the attached link, for example, i would like to move the highlighted combinations between LC130 and LC131. Does this make sense? As far as I know, the only way to do this is to duplicate LC131 to LC148 and then delete them. Li...
    Guest almost 5 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 1 Future consideration

    Flange Ansi check as per UG-44: setting a user ratio for each rating

    Ansi/kellogs method is a widely used way to check flange joint, but different standard, or client specification could use different allowable. Now the ASME BPVC VII UG-44 suggest 2.2 for B16.5 #150 and 1.5 for most of the others; DNV suggested 1.5...
    Gianludovico Spizuoco almost 2 years ago in Reporting 1 Future consideration

    Dynamic interface between Autopipe and Openplant

    Currently, the interface between Autopipe and Openplant is disconnected. Users have to manually export piping models to Autopipe, and perform analysis. If changes need to happen in one model, the other model isnt't updated dynamically. Further, th...
    Sujaan Ahamed Fareed almost 3 years ago in AutoPIPE Pipe Stress 2 Future consideration

    Add ASME Nonmetallic stress allowables to AutoPipe (ASME NM 3.3)

    ASME NM.3.3-2020 has Nonmetallic Material Properties (Maximum Allowable Stress Values for thermoplastic (CPVC, PEX, PE, PVC, PVDF), Yield Strength Values, Thermal Expansion Coefficients, Moduli of Elasticity, Poisson's Ratio. This will allow the s...
    Guest 7 months ago in Code 2 Future consideration

    Allow load combination re-sorting or insert

    In the load combination options, users can custom define loads. The combination ordering is specific to the entries - the rows at the bottom can use previous combinations above, but not v/v. AutoPIPE generates an error if a load case tries to refe...
    Guest almost 2 years ago in UI 0 Future consideration