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With Bentley’s acquisition of Research Engineers in late 2005, Bentley now owns arguably the two most recognized pipe stress applications in the industry – AutoPIPE and ADLPipe. Uniting the nuclear capabilities of ADLPipe with AutoPIPE’s superior modeling environment and exhaustive QA program, Bentley will now be offering the most complete and reliable pipe stress solution addressing the oil, gas, petrochemical, offshore and nuclear markets.

AutoPIPE is the choice of Fluor #1 EPC in the world and more than 90% of the all Japanese engineering companies. AutoPIPE available since 1986 in 55 countries, with 29 international piping codes, 21 spring manufacturers and full-featured set of static, dynamic and special analysis features makes AutoPIPE a leader in small to high-end pipe stress analysis projects.

ADLPipe, the first commercially available pipe stress program in 1967 and preferred comprehensive nuclear solution worldwide. Backed by a successful track record of NRC Quality Assurance Audits.

New nuclear product AutoPIPE Nuclear Powered by ADLPipe to be available in Q3/2007, will combine the productive graphical 'CAD like' interface of AutoPIPE for modeling and graphical review of results with the comprehensive nuclear analysis capability of ADLPipe.


AutoPIPE - the fastest, most productive pipe stress graphical interface with comprehensive features for all industries.
  • 3D OpenGL rendering & smart component graphics for realistic animation and visualization
  • Wave loading, local stresses, thermal bowing, Advanced non-linear support gaps & friction, relief valve, FRP/GRP pipe analysis, and jacketed piping.
  • Built-in fluid transient utility
  • Recognized soil modeler
  • Interfaces to all major CAD systems including AutoPLANT, PlantSpace, Intergraph PDS and Aveva PDMS
   
Excel-Like spreadsheets for Input and Result Data
  • Synchronized in 'Real-time' with Plot
  • Sort & Filter Data to find differences quickly
  • Make Global changes
  • Customized Printing to PDF
  • Multi-level undo/redo
   
STAAD Integration
REI and Bentley's has a global presence in the plant market with industry recognized products like STAAD.Pro, AutoPLANT and PLANTSPACE, our goal is to continue to improve the current design workflow by integrating our structural analysis and pipe stress programs. The integration will enable your engineering teams to have a better understanding of the combined structure and its interaction as well as decrease the time it takes for changes to go from one group to another.
   
Combined Structure + Piping Stiffness
No longer under or over-estimate pipe support loads. Non-linear structural and piping interaction for realistic support and structure loadings.
   
Quality Assurance
The highest software quality with internationally certified Nuclear Quality Assurance to ASME NQA-1, ISO 9001, ASME N45.2 & 10CFR50 app B standards. ANSYS and AutoPIPE are the two quality approved analysis software programs by NUPIC for USA Nuclear Plant Utilities.
   
CAD Integration with AutoPIPE:
(Coming end of 2006 & 2007)
  • Bi-Directional CAD to Stress ecXML Data Exchange
  • Differencing between CAD & Stress Models
  • Early automatic and manual clash detection in Bentley Navigator
  • View Piping Engineer's Detailed Comments
  • Evaluate Steelwork changes
  • View and store Stress Data alongside Physical 3D CAD data and 2D Stream data
  • Document and data change management
   

Automatic Stress Isometric:
  • Fully Dimensioned
  • ISOGEN Engine
  • Piping, Flange & Valve Data
  • CAD Support Tags
  • Max. Support Loads
  • Spring Report
  • Stress Summary
  • Customizable Plot & Data
  • Easy to Markup
For:
  • CAD Designers
  • Vessel Engineers
  • Structural Engineers
  • Piping consultants

"What I like best about AutoPIPE is the graphical interface that allows me to build, edit, and manage a model easily. I always know where I am in the piping system, and I can find specific points easily. I can make modifications quickly and, thus, find solutions in problem areas productively. Compared to other stress analysis programs, I find that AutoPIPE helps me to be more productive in getting my task done."

Alan Lucas
Piping Stress Manager
Air Products

"I also want to say that Autopipe is the best stress analysis program I've used. It's very intuitive and simple to use. I'm very excited to see the full version of Autopipe 8.5. Keep up the great work you guys are doing."

Tomas Alvarez
Fluor Houston

Intro
Graphical Creation of Pipe Stress Model
Graphical Review of Analysis Results
Advanced Analysis Capabilities
Interface with CAD and Pipe FLOW Analysis
Global Modifcation
Quality Assurance
Unique Output Result Filters
STRAIT for PDS Connection
Integration with STAAD.Pro
ADLPipe Nuclear Solution
Major Company Listing
ADLPipe/AutoPIPE Brochure (HTML)
ADLPipe/AutoPIPE Brochure (PDF)
STAAD Integration Brochure (PDF)