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AutoPIPE® Vessel
Comprehensive Software for the
Mechanical Design of Pressure Vessels

AutoPIPE Vessel enables fully automatic workflows, including complete

FASTER TIME TO PRODUCTION
global codes and applied loadings for pressure vessels to deliver greater
Comprehensive, flexible modeling and an easy-to-use interface enables
productivity, safer designs, cost-effective manufacturing, and improved
designers to find solutions quickly, improves the efficiency of modeling,
project collaboration. AutoPIPE Vessel performs truly optimized pressure
and increases profitability. This allows manufacturers to improve productivity
vessel design in minutes.
and delivery time and enables easier, more accurate design and analysis.
MAXIMIZE PRODUCTIVITY
OF SKILLED ENGINEERING RESOURCES IMPROVED COLLABORATION
AutoPIPE Vessel provides the most productive, cost-effective, and accurate AutoPIPE Vessel shares data with plant design software such as AutoPLANT®
designs for the safe operation of pressure vessels under all loading and PDS and shares nozzle load data with AutoPIPE while automatically
conditions. The software supports numerous regional and global standards producing drawings in all major CAD formats (for example MicroStation®
including pressure vessel design codes and regional wind and seismic and AutoCAD). Through its superior interoperability, AutoPIPE Vessel ensures
codes. By enabling the use of both new and older design codes, and material greater efficiency in the supply chain and greater alignment with engineering
standards from any year, it improves flexibility for re-rating and revamping companies. By enabling engineers to collaborate more efficiently, it reduces
of existing equipment. Enabling these design codes and material standards iterations and errors, enables better quality designs, unifies workflows
provides the opportunity to design for brownfield and greenfield projects, across a comprehensive set of capabilities, and improves data handover
shortens design time and rework by eliminating guesswork, and reduces to operations and maintenance.
training time by providing a single, easy-to-use application for global
projects. It ensures confidence in pressure vessel design and improves
competitiveness through higher design quality.

OPTIMIZED AND FLEXIBLE VESSEL

DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING
With AutoPIPE Vessel manufacturers can evaluate options to provide
comprehensive, high-quality solutions for all loading and manufacturing
scenarios in minutes. Support for manufacturing component details
and drawings as well as installation and operating conditions, enables
high-quality designs and reduces manual drawing time and rework,
improving competitiveness. Fatigue analysis, installation,
support-in-place design and analysis, pressure testing, automatic Vertical pressure vessel with platforms Vessel with limpet coils.
drawing production, and cost estimation are key features. and staircase.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM: Intel or AMD processor 3.0 GHz or greater, Windows 8 Professional (64 bit) or higher, Windows 10 (64 bit) or higher,
Microsoft Office 2013 or higher, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB hard disk. Any industry-standard video card that supports OpenGL 3D graphics.
RECOMMENDED: Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.0 or higher

AutoPIPE Vessel At-A-Glance

DESIGN CODES OCCASIONAL LOAD CODES
Š ASME VIII Div. 1 and Div. 2 Š ASCE 7 Š AD-Merkblatter S3/0 Š NBC Canada
Š BS PD 5500 Š ANSI A58.1 Š IS 875 Part 3 and 1893 Š GOST R 51273
Š EN 13445 Š UBC and IBC Š NBR 6123 Š Parasismique PS 92 and PS 69
Š CODAP Div. 1 and Div. 2 Š EN 1991-1-4 and 1998 Š Neige et Vent 65 - Neige 84 Š LNEC
Š AD Merkblatter Š BS 6399 Part 2 and CP3 Part 2 Š NBE AE 88 Š Turkish Rules
Š GOST R 52857, 34233 Š DIN 4149 Š DL 235/83 Š NB/T 47041
Š GB-150 Š GB 5001

Š U.S. customary and SI units, MKS units (for input only)

PRESSURE VESSELS
Š Smart import of sustained, thermal, and occasional nozzle loading
Š Seven international design codes to ASME VIII Division 1 and 2,
from Bentley AutoPIPE
including ASME code case 2695, GB-150, BS PD 5500, EN 13445,
Š Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese,
AD Merkblatter, CODAP, GOST R 52857, and GOST 34233
Chinese, Croatian, and Russian (fully customizable dictionary)
Š Support types:
Š QA formatted Microsoft Word reports for all designed components
Š Vertical support – Skirt, legs, brackets, and intermediate skirt
and full vessel loading cases, including bending moment diagrams,
Š Horizontal support – Up to 10 saddles
weld, nozzle, and flange sketches and full design code references
Š Nozzle reinforcement and flange design to all major global standards
Š All load case combinations (operating, installation, hydrotest,
including EN 13445 Annex G/EN 1591
wind, motion, blast, shutdown, seismic, and vortex shedding)
Š Full fatigue analysis of welded components to ASME VIII, PD 5500,
is reported for the calculation
CODAP, ADM, GOST, and EN 13445
Š Machine plate fabrication
Š Vertical vessels on rigid or flexible anchor base, legs or brackets,
Š Plate cutting profiles, optimized welding pattern
horizontal vessels with multiple saddles with rigid or spring stiffness
Š Interface to NC machines
Š Advanced lifting and rigging analysis evaluated every 10 degrees for
Š Standard nozzle load tables available
on-site installation
Š Local load analysis to PD 5500 Annex G or G.2.8 Alt. rules, WRC
Š Built-in comprehensive in-situ design, transportation, and installation
107/297/537, EN 13445, GOST, Roark
design tools
Š Saddle design with Zick analysis to ASME VIII Div 2, PD 5500,
Š Pressure-testing design analysis covering all on-site environment conditions
CODAP, EN 13445, AD, and GOST
Š Wind vortex shedding analysis, blast, and motion load analysis
Š Link to NozzlePRO for finite element analysis
Š Plate cutting profile drawings
Š Comprehensive material databases for ASME, DIN, EN, GB-150,
Š Full weld details for nozzles and reinforcement including location
BS, GOST, ASTM, and NF (French) materials
of all component welds
Š Customizable company standards for saddle supports
Š Flanges (gasket and bolting details and installation)
and nozzle loading
Š Multichamber (up to three chambers), jacketed vessels, and vessels
Š Multiple codes for occasional loading including wind, vortex
with external limpet coils
shedding, seismic, motion, and blast loading
Š Vertical vessels and columns with platforms, ladders, demister
pad, and trays OPTIMIZED DESIGN
Š Final drawing of the flattening of the shell profile with all nozzles, Š Erected, lifting, operating, test, and shutdown loading
saddles, reinforcement, packing support, and more, for an accurate conditions evaluated
check for interference and location of the longitudinal welds along Š Nozzle reinforcement, flange design, support design,
the complete vessel and vessel deflection and rotation
Š Automatic detailed cost estimations (fully customizable
GENERAL
in Microsoft Excel)
Š Comprehensive pressure vessel modeling, including horizontal and
vertical vessels, multichamber (up to three chambers), jacketed vessels, AUTOMATIC DRAWING PRODUCTION
model platforms, ladders, demister pads, trays, insulations and design Š Automated detailed drawings in seconds
supports, lifting lug, trunnions, apply external loads, and moments Š Fully dimensioned engineering and manufacturing drawings
Š Comprehensive import from and export to 3D CAD formats including Š White space management and configurable drawing sheet layout
PDS (3D), MicroStation (2D and 3D), AutoCAD (2D and 3D DWG), Š Customizable data and connection details to meet
AutoPLANT (3D), and SolidWorks (3D), export to IFC file format, export manufacturer standards
to STAAD Foundation Advanced via iTwin® Analytical Modeling Š Bills of material to meet company standards

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