INTRODUCTION
Thank you for licensing CAEPIPE (pronounced kay-pipe), the simple yet powerful software for solving a variety of piping design and stress analysis problems in numerous industries listed below.
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Power(fossil & nuclear)
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Oil & Gas production (onshore & offshore)
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Refinery
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Chemical & Petrochemical
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Fertilizers
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Pharmaceutical
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Sugar & Food Processing
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Paper & Pulp
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Steel / Metal Process
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Water & Waste Treatment
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Aircraft and Aerospace
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Building Services
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Defense Industries
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Ship Building
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CAEPIPE performs linear and nonlinear static and linear dynamic analyses of piping systems by imposing various loads such as deadweight, thermal, seismic, wind, spectrum, time history or harmonic, and calculates displacements, forces, moments, stresses, support loads etc. Further, it checks whether the piping system is piping code and guideline compliant (ASME, B31, European, Swedish, API 610, etc.) and produces concise, formatted and easy to understand reports.
For rapid modeling, CAEPIPE offers you a friendly and productive user interface that rigorously adheres to Windows standards. Open up to four windows simultaneously to get feedback on different aspects of the model. Extensive graphical display capabilities allow you to zoom, pan, rotate the image and see the model from different viewpoints. CAEPIPE uses the industry standard OpenGL® to render 3D images realistically for easy visualization. As the model is input and modified, CAEPIPE updates the graphics simultaneously to provide visual feedback. It animates deflected shapes and mode shapes, and shows color-coded stress contours, among others.
A true powerhouse in its speed of operation, CAEPIPE uses advanced Windows programming techniques such as intelligent repainting, scroll box tracking, multithreading, memory-mapped files for faster data access, among others, to make your job easier and faster. Every effort is made to keep the program and data file sizes small (e.g., program size is ~2 MB! And a 665-element piping model is 85 KB!).
Many thoughtful and useful details in the program allow you to work more productively. For example, you can annotate your model with copious comments for enhanced documentation, or duplicate repetitive input with one hotkey combination or rotate sections of the model with one operation. No unnecessary buttons clutter the toolbar nor are you forced to use a mouse unnecessarily. The many thoughtful keyboard shortcuts, too, add to your productivity.
Overall, CAEPIPE stands peerless among the tools available today for piping design and stress analysis. We invite you to explore the software so that you can make full use of its capabilities. Our friendly and knowledgeable support engineers are available to assist you. Should you need to reach them, please email: support@sstusa.com.
Two sections make up this manual:
1. Explanation of menus from the different CAEPIPE windows,
2. Appendices with related information.