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Vessel / tank with two (or more) partial jackets

Currently, only one jacket / partial jacket is allowed per vessel. Suggestion is to allow a second jacket to be added some distance from the original one. Before suggesting adding one long jacket to the shell; there is a difference between the sti...
Guest about 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

FSE (Flexible Shell Element) updates – (used on S&T HX)

These are a few points to consider when updating the software; Update the Expansion Joint Study Properties window; To include the latest TEMA edition (currently up to TEMA 9) With the TEMA 9 ed pulldown (Full Design), some variables are grey...
Guest about 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

Support Verification According to Eurocode 3

Implementing support verification (at least for legs and brackets) according to Eurocode 3 would greatly benefit projects designed to European standards and meet the increasing need for Eurocode compliance in structural design.
Jacques-Antoine Rochelet about 2 months ago in  0 Needs review

Add European code EN-14015 in AutoPIPE Vessel.

Please add EN 14015 code for design of storage tank. EN 14015 is the European standard for the design and manufacture of vertical, cylindrical, above-ground, welded steel tanks with flat bottoms.
Tanaji Gaikwad almost 2 years ago in  1 Planned

Nozzle loads on supports

When it is added local loads for nozzles, these loads should be taken in consideration for the support calculation and fundation loads considering the location and orientation of nozzle, for example, Nozzle A located on top head has local loads su...
Guest over 1 year ago in  0 Planned

Platform for Horizontal Vessels

Currently we can only add platform on vertical vessels. Please consider platform on horizontal vessels as well.
Tanaji Gaikwad over 1 year ago in  0 Future consideration

Possibility to change the air density

Currently, AutoPIPE Vessel uses a default air density of 1.225 kg/m³ for wind load calculations. However, air density can vary based on the geographic location of the equipment. Therefore, I request that this value be made an input parameter inste...
Tanaji Gaikwad 5 months ago in  0 Needs review

report generation with word or pdf instead of rtf

I think several autopipe vessel users have encountered this problem: the RTF file takes a long time to open the RTF file is heavy to load to launch a calculation it is necessary to close the RTF file (in this case me I want to look at the rep...
Guest almost 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

API 579 Fitness for Service (FFS)

Implement FFS as per API 579. Parts of API 579 include: 1 – Introduction 2 – FFS Engineering Evaluation Procedure 3 – Brittle Fracture 4 – General Metal Loss 5 – Localized Metal Loss 6 – Pitting Corrosion 7 – Blisters, HIC, and SOHIC Damage ...
Sudip Ganguly over 1 year ago in  0 Needs review

Nozzle neck calculation outside 0.6D on formed heads is missing (AD-2000)

For this nozzles, the reinforcement is given by the head thickness but the nozzle neck calculation (cilinder under internal pressure) is missing, so the neck is not validated, only a message saying that the reinforcement is given by the head thick...
Guest 2 months ago in  0 Needs review