Information on PipePak - Much better value if your needs are met. Ceasar has
some capabilities that not many people use.
This core package provides piping system designers and engineers with a tool
for defining complete piping systems and performing structural analysis in
compliance with industry-standard piping codes. PipePak's capabilities for
design, analysis, validation and reporting enable engineers to create better,
more reliable piping systems faster.
In addition, this core package includes capabilities for designing beam/truss
models for static stress analysis using a precision finite element
model-building tool and FEMPRO, an easy-to-use, single user interface for finite
element modeling, results evaluation and presentation.
Typical Applications
Compressor selection to avoid a piping system's natural frequency
Food processing plant
Fuel systems
Furnace piping
Heat exchanger fabricators
Heating and cooling steam systems in buildings
Hydrocarbon processing systems
Liquid pipeline system design
Nuclear piping system design
Offshore processing systems
Pipe rerouting
Piping restraint re-evaluation
Piping systems in NASA testing facilities and support facilities, such as power
production sites
Plastic product manufacturing plant design
Process chemical systems
Pulp and paper piping systems
Pump/flange leakage
Reciprocating compressor piping vibration problems
Retrofitting piping systems with new materials
Rotating equipment seal problems
Shock testing of piping systems on naval ships
Skid system analysis
Steam distribution systems under airport runways
Steam piping
Turbine trip and steam hammer
Analysis Capabilities
Piping Systems
Linear static stress analysis
Natural frequency (modal)
Response spectrum (single and multiple)
Frequency response
Time history
Supports industry-standard piping codes including revisions through:
ASME B31.1-2001 Power Piping
ASME B31.3b-2002 Process Piping
ASME B31.4a-2002 Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and
Other Liquids
ASME B31.8a-2000 Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems
ASME Section III Division 1 - Subsection NC Class 2 Components (2002)
ASME Section III Division 1 - Subsection ND Class 3 Components (2002)
British Standard BS 806 (1993)
European Standard EN 13480-3:2002
"In-line" analysis of flanges, reducers and rotating equipment
Built-in nozzle flexibility calculations
Frame Structures
Static stress with linear material models
Weight, center of gravity and mass moment of inertia
Modeling
Piping Systems
Includes easy-to-use options for defining a complete piping system (pipe runs
and components) using:
A spreadsheet to enter coordinates
A graphical drawing package
Various geometric import operations:
Import piping data from CADPIPE (.ude, .cty) files
Import piping data from CAESAR II (.cii) files
Import piping data from Intergraph PDS (.neu, .pds) files
Any combination of graphical drawing, spreadsheet data entry or importing of
geometry
Includes industry-standard piping components including:
ANSI pipe size specifications
ANSI B16.5 (Gasket Diameter) flanges
Hanger design and selection including:
Basic Engineers
Bergen Paterson
Flexider
Grinell
Power Piping
Expansion joint design and selection
Includes common piping data
Stress intensification factors
Concentrated forces
Concentrated weights
Concentrated masses
Cut short/long
Support for underground piping systems
Support for jacketed pipe
Import piping data from Intergraph PDS (.neu, .pds) files
Import piping data from CAESAR II (.cii) files
Import piping data from CADPIPE (.ude, .cty) files
Frame Structures
CAD support for 2-D and 3-D wireframe geometry in CDL, DXF and IGES file formats
Capability to combine all element types available for a given analysis type in a
single model
Capability to define loads and constraints relative to a local coordinate system
Interactive definition of beam cross-section orientation
Capability to define beam offset locations
Capability to import FEA models that are stored in ABAQUS, ANSYS, FEMAP,
NASTRAN, PATRAN or SDRC file formats
Element Library
Piping Systems
Pipes
Bends
Valves
Reducers
Bellows
Flanges
Tees
Frame Structures
3-D truss element
3-D beam element
Gap element
Cable element
Rigid element
Click here for a more detailed element library
Material models
Piping Systems
Isotropic
Orthotropic
Fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP)
Frame Structures
Linear elastic isotropic
Loading and Constraints
Piping Systems
Forces
Moments
Prescribed displacements
Temperatures
Pressures
Occasional loads
Wind
Earthquake
Pitch and roll for shipboard piping
Simultaneous, multiple pressure, thermal, displacement and occasional loads
Includes common piping constraints and supports
Anchors
Rigid supports
Spring supports
Constant force hangers
Undesigned hangers
Snubber supports
Guide supports
Linestop supports
Rotational supports
Inclined supports
One-way restraint supports
Limitstop supports
Support displacement
Includes effects of friction between pipe and supports
Frame Structures
Forces
Moments
Temperatures
Prescribed displacements
Prescribed rotations
Distributed loads
Gravitational forces
Centrifugal forces
Global and off-axis constraints
Variable-stiffness off-axis constraints
End releases
Solver Options
Piping Systems
Built-in, fast bandwidth minimization algorithm and sequential equation solver
Frame Structures
Symmetric sparse
Skyline
Iterative
Banded
Parallel processing for multiple processors
Results Evaluation
Piping Systems
Viewing by diameter, schedule, wall thickness, corrosion allowance, insulation,
content, material, pressure and temperature
Display of piping networks in either wireframe or shaded view
Control over model display options including the display of dimension lines,
point names, labels and symbols
Dynamic clipping planes for interactively slicing and hiding areas of a complex
piping network
Interactive selection of components of the piping network through either the
tree view or OpenGL graphics window
Displays deflected shapes, forces and moments, mode shapes and stress contours
including code stress, principal stress, longitudinal stress and hoop stress
Displays deflection and modal analysis result animations
Annotations that highlight the location of the minimum and maximum result values
Text listing (time-varying where applicable) of:
Displacements
Forces
Moments
Support reactions
Stresses
Built-in checking of all results for ASME and ANSI code compliance
Automatic highlighting of output rows in an HTML report where the calculated
stresses are above the allowable stresses
Rotating equipment reports including:
API610 pumps (8th Edition)
NEMA SM23 turbines
Built-in options to quickly change load cases to verify model and extract
numerical data from any analysis visualization
Inquire on analysis results by clicking on any component in the piping network
Frame Structures
Integrated environment for model visualization and results evaluation
3-D dynamic viewing options and rich colors provided by OpenGL-based displays
Material and result rendering for model and analysis visualization
Cross-sectional viewing options
Dynamic clipping planes for slicing models
Capability to display parts as transparent (translucent)
Multiple methods for selecting parts or elements in order to hide areas of the
model
Result contours of:
Displacement
Stress
Strain
Reaction force
Factor of safety
Annotations that highlight the location of the minimum and maximum result values
Capability to define result probes at desired locations
Annotation of graph values
Capability to display or graph results in an arbitrary orientation using a local
coordinate system
Capability to simultaneously view varying result types through multiple view
windows
Shear and bending moment diagrams
Text output of weight, volume, center of gravity, mass moment of inertia and
products of inertia
Precision contouring for accuracy assessment
Capability to combine the results of multiple linear static stress analyses
Graphs convergence for linear static iterative solver
Built-in, virtual instrumentation through Monitor for result graphs
Automatic display of units in the results legend
Uses TrueType fonts for legend and annotations
Dynamic controls for positioning the results legend, annotations and background
images
Pre-defined and user-defined color palettes for result contours
Slider to dynamically control the scale and display of the displaced model
Capability to display the undisplaced model using transparency
Slider for controlling the display of elements based on a lower or upper result
limit
Capability to individually control the color, mesh and display of results for
each part
Realistic visualization of beam elements
Point-and-click result inquiry options
Inquire mode enables results from selected objects or load and constraint data
to be displayed and available for copy and paste operations to other
applications
Result text listing
Support for exporting results to common Windows applications
Capability to save all settings for a specific presentation and view that same
display at any time or use those settings with a different model
Results Presentation
Piping Systems
Output result contours and images of piping networks as BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, PCX
and TGA formats
Built-in animation creation and display tools
Report Wizard for automatic generation of HTML or text-based reports that
summarize input, equipment data and analysis results, including code stress
allowables and stress ratios
Frame Structures
VRML utility to generate 3-D, web-based models
Output result contours and graphs as BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, PCX and TGA formats
Integrated animation creation and display tools
Automatic image generation of each result presentation for inclusion in reports
Report Wizard and environment for automatic HTML generation and display
User Interface
Piping Systems
Windows-native interface with right-click functionality, multiple views and
docking toolbars
Tree view that provides easy navigation and review of all piping system data
Data entry dialog view that facilitates easy data entry, review and modification
Capability to cut, copy and paste data from individual and multiple spreadsheet
cells and rows
Capability to directly move to the spreadsheet rows that define the component(s)
selected in the visualization view
3-D dynamic viewing options, including pan, rotate and zoom options
Built-in library manager for adding, modifying and removing data for pipe size,
material properties, allowable stress, valves, flanges, wind loads, seismic,
pump allowables, hangers and plastic pipe properties
Built-in data checking for reasonable input
Limit checking for allowable temperature ranges
Support for standard and custom unit systems
Easy application of stress intensification factors for piping components, such
as lap joint flanges, valves and elbows, which have a varying thickness and
other physical properties
Frame Structures
Windows-native interface with tree views, multiple views and docking toolbars
Right-click application, modification and deletion of loads, constraints and FEA
properties
Shortcut keyboard and mouse controls for dynamic viewing options
Capability to input equations into data input screens
Built-in data checking for reasonable input
Load and constraint set capabilities for managing different design scenarios
Drag and drop of loads and constraints
Material Library Manager includes a library featuring materials from MatWeb and
provides the capability to import, create and manage customized libraries
Capability to exchange material data with third-party material libraries through
XML
Right-click, context-sensitive help
Support for standard and custom unit systems
Capability to specify graphs using mathematical expressions
Control over all graph labels and axis indicators
Pre-defined and user-defined graph display styles
Data management utility for archiving models
Automation
API for reading ALGOR results and using the automatic 3-D meshing tools
Published, centralized file format
Built-in script and macro tools
Add-In Manager provides ability for third-party plug-ins that offer extended
software functionality
Support for plug-and-play analysis add-ons
Capability to define a user-defined result type
EAGLE, a programming language designed to assist in performing repetitive tasks,
conducting parametric or variational FEA studies, optimizing designs and
performing FEA and MES analyses which require multiphysics
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> Algor does pipe stress analysis (ALgor PIPE PLUS). The data entry in Algor
> is in the form of Spread Sheet and quite easy to enter or manipulate.
> I found CAESAR has got lot many advantages as a package, may be because I
> worked with Algor package about 7/8 yrs back.
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> With best regards,
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> D.K.M.Rao.
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> RE: [PipingDesign] ALGOR
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> algor doesnt do pipe stress analysis, at least not ain a preactical or
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> complaince sense.
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> You are comparing apples and oranges. Search google on the two subjects
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> youll see the difference.
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> if you mean autopipe , different story. they are comaprable but caesar has
> many better features
> although the GUI in Autopipe is nice.
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> Aluser2
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=q8PmHFgW9giP7ym7V266YGwpAYznJVlTaIqywzxsqQVW9JcAaMOJNoOY5x4cVF97Zf5i-xdIN5w9yAw_pUZJBXCygos">PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com</a>
> [mailto:PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
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> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:54 PM
> To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=q8PmHFgW9giP7ym7V266YGwpAYznJVlTaIqywzxsqQVW9JcAaMOJNoOY5x4cVF97Zf5i-xdIN5w9yAw_pUZJBXCygos">PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com</a>
> Subject: [PipingDesign] ALGOR
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> Hi everybody,
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> Is there anybody to compare Ceasar II and ALGOR for pipe stress analysis ?
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> Akif
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