AutoPIPE Vessel

According ASME Section VIII Division 2 it is required to determine the upper limit for test pressure – ASME SECTION VIII Div.2 Part8 Paragraph 8.2.1 (c). Based on that is important to state on the project documents the value for minimum and maximu...

Allow the use of Alternative Pressure Area Design Method if the primary method of assessment for PD5500 shows non-compliance. The alternative method is less conservative and therefore may in some cases be able to sufficiently demonstrate compliance.

For vertical vessels I suggest to add a field to add a material for lugs on top o f the vessel and also another field to selected the material for lugs on bottom skirt (tailing lug). It is very common to have columns in for exempla stainless steel...

Currently AutoPIPE Vessel considers both corrosion and tolerance for nozzle neck thickness calculation. A radio button to allow user to consider tolerance or not can be added in the nozzle dialog box.

When manufacturing vessels according to AD 2000 or ASME, experience can be obtained for nozzles located within a distance less than 2,5√(ea*r) from tangent line knuckle/cylindrical part. We would therefore like the possibility to chose this option...

When API650 is not suitable for a vertical tank, calculation should be done with API620

API650 tanks can only be calculated with ASCE, sometimes it is required EN norms for wind and seismic design

Just as you can include flanges (EN-DIN-ASME) in the connections, include CLAMP connections (ASME BPE - DIN32676) that are very common in the pharmaceutical industry.

Factors multiplying the wind and seismic loads need to be adjustable by user. Example below in red box shows Load combinations for wind load. Currently this combination is hardcoded in the program.

Sometimes is needed to increase locally the thickness of the vessel wall to reinforce the nozzles (under pressure load or external loads), instead of increasing the whole course or head thickness (for economic reasons). Simulating this local thick...