Product Sheet

PIPESTRESS
The Reference for Nuclear Pipe Stress Analysis
PIPESTRESS is a complete calculation system for nuclear and non-nuclear piping codes. It has been continuously
maintained in accordance with nuclear QA procedures for more than 40 years. Several major nuclear engineering
organizations use PIPESTRESS as their principal piping analysis program and has been used by engineering organizations
all over the globe to analyze piping in more than 50 nuclear power plants.

Capabilities: Advanced Modeling

• Linear and non-linear • Flange verification PIPESTRESS has the capability to model very large
calculations structures and complex loadings with up to 900 user-
• Strain energy weighted defined load and combination cases. It includes a complete
• Fully featured Nuclear composite modal set of piping elements and supports including straight
Class 1 analysis damping
pipes, elbows, miter bends, expansion joints, flanges,
• Automatic mass point linear and non-linear restraints with gaps and friction,
• Advanced floor
generation spring hangers, snubbers, etc. In addition, you can model
spectrum analysis
beam elements with a non-prismatic cross-section.
• Time history analysis • Dynamic susceptibility
Static Analysis
• Buried piping
By using PIPESTRESS you have access to an extensive
set of static loads: operating and test weight, thermal
Piping Codes expansion, snow and wind, settlement, cold springing,
• ASME Classes 1, 2 and 3 • KTA Classes 1 and 2 variable pseudo-static acceleration, applied support
(1967 to 2019) (1980 to 1992) movements, variable fluid density, uniform and trapezoidal
loads, horizontal and non-horizontal stratification effects.
• ANSI/ASME B31.1 (1972 • EDF Piping Code for
to 2018) Composite Materials, Dynamic Analysis
Indice D
• ANSI/ASME B31.3 (1999 PIPESTRESS offers advanced dynamic capabilities for floor
to 2018) • EN 13480-3 Piping Code response analysis and time history analysis. Increase the
(2002 to 2017) precision of your calculations by enabling the rigid mode
• CODETI (1982 to 2016) correction (“left-out-force” method), avoid unnecessary
• ASME HDPE Piping conservatism by calculating the displacements, rotations
• RCC-M Classes 1 and 2 Code (2011 to 2017) and accelerations in user-defined local coordinates, define
(1983 to 2018) the most complex loads with up to 3800 independent
support levels, compensate uncertainties of the modal
• RCC-MX (2008)
extraction by enabling the shift option, and use the strain
energy weighted composite modal damping defined in
ASME-1233.
Customize your methods with a large variety of options for Buried Piping
complete floor response analysis:
Benefit from simplified workflows with automatic soil
• Intermodal combination method according to RG 1.92 spring generation. Springs can be either elastic (as per
up to revision 3: SRSS, absolute, 10% grouping, double ASME B31.1 Appendix VII) or elastic-plastic (as per ASCE
sum, Rosenblueth, Der Kiureghian (CQC) code). An integrated soil calculator provides easier
modeling workflows in accordance with ASME B31.1
• In-phase and out-phase interlevel combination
App. VII.
methods
• Gupta and Lindley-Yow methods for hybrid modes Flange Calculation
Use special tools to generate an amplified spectrum at the Flange modules automatically retrieve results of piping
decoupling point between run piping and branch piping. analysis and input them in flange verification, according to
codes EN 13480, ASME III and RCC-M, and various methods
Calculate water hammer, blast, valve discharge, seismic (equivalent pressure, Taylor Forge, etc.).
accelerograms or other time history analysis with modules
based on the modal superposition method that can take PIPESTRESS Quality Assurance
into account gapped restraints. With PIPESTRESS, seismic Program (PQAP)
analyses can utilize artificial accelerograms for seismic
PQAP has a rigorous development methodology and well-
analyses from response spectrum data.
proven QA procedures. PIPESTRESS has earned the trust
of engineers for decades by providing accurate analysis
The THIST post-processor can be used to obtain more
results. PQAP conforms to 10CFR50 Appendix B and
detailed results, including time history plots for selected
10CFR21 Reporting.
degrees-of-freedom.

Graphical User Interface

Class 1 Piping Analysis
Users can view and manipulate models with ease.
Build your nuclear power plant with confidence.
PIPESTRESS offers a smart input file editor with syntax
PIPESTRESS performs analysis of piping systems in
coloring, interactive piping view, and translucent view for
accordance with nuclear standards and codes, including
jacketed pipes. It also proposes a quick pipe wizard to
detailed stress analysis according to ASME III NB-3600,
speed up the input of engineering data.
RCC-M, RCC-MX and KTA codes.
Rapidly check the model with data tables and tree view.
• Precise stress evaluation at fittings
Benefit from easy post-processing with animated vibration
• Evaluation of thermal stresses due to fluid transients modes, deformed shapes, forces and moment diagrams,
colored stress ratios and support reactions. Export the
• Fatigue usage factor calculation model views to various graphic formats and automatically
• Elastic shakedown criteria generate stress reports based on customizable templates.

• Simplified elastic-plastic analysis Use the automatic validation tool to run the QA problems
and verify that the results generated on the hardware are
• Thermal ratchet criteria
the same as the ones generated by the Hexagon QA team.
• Evaluation of environmental effects

• Alternative penalty factor per Code Case N-779

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