AutoPIPE buried piping capabilities
- AutoPIPE is capable of modeling and analyzing buried piping systems with non-linear properties defined in four directions
- Soil springs spacing can be controlled by the user
- Automatic soil stiffness calculator to calculate soil stiffness values
- Three sets of soil stiffness values for upper and lower bound values
- Tool for calculating maximum slippage length and virtual anchor length
- Soil data for Russian SNIP code used for static seismic stress calculations
- Result output for soil spring loads and displacements
New in AutoPIPE v8i Select Series 4
- Circumferential wall bending stress
- Ring buckling pressure
- Seismic + Thermal stress
- Building settlement
Circumferential wall bending stress
- Earth loads calculation
- Surface loads
- Three equations for calculating stress
- Adams et. al.
- AWWA C150
- ASCE 2001
- Adams et. al.
- Additional options for adding stress to sustained stress
Ring buckling pressure
- Total vertical pressure applied
- Limit of applied pressure
- Ring buckling allowable safety factor
Seismic + Thermal stress
- Combines Permanent (temperature) and Occasional (SAM + Wave propagation) effects
- Allowable stress proposed by Adams
- Thermal equivalent due to wave propagation
Building settlement
- Building settlement at location of pipe entering building
- Allowable criteria as per Adams