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Bentley AutoPIPE Advanced User Accreditation (Dynamic Analysis) - Program Overview
Advance your Skills and Career
The Bentley AutoPIPE Advanced User Accreditation (Dynamic Analysis) Program is an official credential from Bentley Systems, Inc. that verifies you have the essential AutoPIPE software skills and workflows to perform dynamic pipe stress analysis and to be a productive asset to your employer. By attending the accreditation course and completing a hands-on design project, you will have demonstrated the dynamic analysis skills to stand out from your peers and advance your career to the next level. After you have successfully completed the accreditation, you will receive a completion certificate and an official Bentley badging.
Benefits of the Program
- Users become more productive by learning Bentley-recommended best practices and workflows.
- Users and Future Professionals can add the accreditation credentials to their resume to showcase their expertise for use with dynamic pipe stress analysis.
- Companies can advertise that their employees possess the professional skills necessary for project bids and to be competitive in the dynamic piping stress analysis field.
Program Requirements
- Users should have completed Bentley AutoPIPE Basic User Accreditation.
- Users must submit a signed accreditation program agreement.
- Users must complete the required accreditation course(s).
- Users must submit their completed assignments within 4 weeks of attending the accreditation course.
- The assignment submission is reviewed and approved by a Bentley instructor.
- If the project submittal does not meet completion requirements, the user can correct and resubmit their project within 2 weeks. Reattempts may be permitted at the discretion of the instructor and may require additional training.
- User must pass accreditation assessment. If user is not able to pass, can redo the assessment one more time.
- Users should have a minimum of 30 hours of dynamic analysis experience utilizing AutoPIPE CONNECT Edition.
- Existing users can receive accreditation by submitting the exercise and assessment without attending the recommended courses.
Bentley AutoPIPE Advanced User Accreditation (Dynamic Analysis) for Pipe Stress Engineers Offering
The Bentley AutoPIPE (Advanced) User Accreditation (Dynamic Analysis) is meant to demonstrate your knowledge and advanced requisite skills of using AutoPIPE to perform dynamic piping stress analysis. Users will need to complete assignments and assessments to demonstrate their skills and abilities within a provided time frame. Users will set up a piping model for modal analysis, apply response spectrum, harmonic loads, and time history loads – water/steam hammer, create a dynamic analysis set, perform analysis, and check the analysis results using AutoPIPE. In addition, users will also extract output reports in different formats.
The following is a list of skills required to complete the required exercises:
AutoPIPE tools
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§ Setting up Mass Discretization § Setting up Modal Analysis and Checking Mass Participation § Adding a Response Spectra Load § Using the Fluid Transient Module § Reviewing Time History Profile & Location Files § Adding Harmonic Loads § Creating Analysis Sets and Running the Dynamic Analysis § Reviewing Load Combinations § Checking Results |
Printing and Publishing
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§ Print Input/Output Reports § Print Word/Excel Reports |
Users can add to their skills as needed by taking courses from the list of recommended courses.
Recommended Courses (OnDemand or Live/Virtual)
- Advanced Modelling and Analysis Using AutoPIPE
- Modal Analysis Using AutoPIPE and Dynamic Introduction
- Response Spectrum Analysis using AutoPIPE
- Time History Analysis using AutoPIPE – Water/Steam Hammer
- Harmonic Analysis using AutoPIPE
Download the Advanced User Accreditation (Dynamic Analysis) Workbook to access the hands-on, step-by-step instructions.