Bentley AutoPIPE Special Interest Group (SIGs)

June 2018: AutoPIPE Interoperability with STAAD.Pro Using SQLite PipeLink

Presenter: Jessica Alegre
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 Agenda: AutoPIPE Interoperability with STAAD.Pro
Using SQLite PipeLink

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Today’s focus is Bentley AutoPIPE Connect Edition and how to:
Step-by-step process for Pipe Stress and
Structural Analysis collaboration in
AutoPIPE

2 Benefits for both Structural and Pipe

Stress Engineers in adopting the
PipeLink workflow

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PipeLink User Case Studies
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 Step-by-step process for Pipe Stress and Structural Analysis
collaboration in AutoPIPE

• Run initial pipe stress analysis in AutoPIPE

• Simultaneously run initial structural analysis in STAAD
• Export SQLite PipeLink file from AutoPIPE & Import into STAAD
– Includes piping geometry and support loads (forces & moments)
• Transfer piping loads to structure, create combined load combinations
and rerun structural analysis in STAAD
• Export SQLite PipeLink file from STAAD & Import into AutoPIPE
– Includes support connections
• Rerun pipe stress analysis in AutoPIPE, considering flexibility of structure
• Iterate, as required

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 Run initial pipe stress analysis in AutoPIPE

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 Run initial pipe stress analysis in AutoPIPE

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 Simultaneously run initial structural analysis in STAAD

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 Simultaneously run initial structural analysis in STAAD

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 Export SQLite PipeLink file from AutoPIPE

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into STAAD

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into STAAD

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into STAAD

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into STAAD

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into STAAD

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into STAAD

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 Transfer piping loads to structure

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 Transfer piping loads to structure

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 Create combined load combinations

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 Rerun structural analysis in STAAD

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 Results Comparison

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 Export SQLite PipeLink file from STAAD

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into AutoPIPE

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into AutoPIPE

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into AutoPIPE

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into AutoPIPE

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into AutoPIPE

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 Import SQLite PipeLink file into AutoPIPE

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 Rerun pipe stress analysis in AutoPIPE, considering flexibility of
structure

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 Results Comparison

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 Results Comparison

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 Import Multiple STAAD models into single AutoPIPE model

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 Benefits for both Structural and Pipe Stress Engineers in adopting
the PipeLink workflow

Single-User Integrated
Piping/Structure
Models

Bi-Directional
Exchange

• Faster Design • Less Assumptions

Combined structure + piping model w/changed piping More accurate pipe support & equipment loads +
loads automatically updated multiple times in STAAD realistic structural and piping design stresses

• Structural Sway and Stiffness • Cost Savings

Combined structure + piping model to analyze true Avoid costly re-design and construction delays
combined stiffness

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 Benefits for both Structural and Pipe Stress
Engineers in adopting the PipeLink workflow
• Closing the collaboration
gap between design teams

• Interoperable design
applications brings powerful
change to dispersed design
teams using varied software
applications

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 Case Study 1 - Lungmen Nuclear Plant Coupled Structural and
Piping

Taiwan Power Company (Stone & Webster) Is it

Safe?
PROBLEM: Disconnected Main Steam Piping & Structural design =
Dynamic Seismic Phasing Issues, grossly inaccurate Structural
flexibility and large pipe support loads
SOLUTION: Coupled Structure & piping gave
reduced seismic loads at Turbine, more
accurate pipe support design, greater
confidence in static & dynamic analysis design

Conclusion
“Coupled Model Provides a
Courtesy : Stone & Webster more Realistic Load
Inc., A Shaw Group
Company Definition for Main Steam
Y
X
Z
Piping System”
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 Case Study 2 - Queensland Alumina – Australia Failure of Spent
Liquor Pumps
Large pulsations in piping =>
Excessive pipe movement =>
Excessive loads on the equipment

=> Up to $0.5M per day

loss production

Suction Spent Liquor

Piping Pump
 Excessive movement of pump suction piping
= pump realignment.
 Pump is one of the most heavily loaded single
volute pumps in the world.
 Failure of pump suction pipe supports
 Failure of pump packing
 High rate of pump failures due to distortion
AutoPIPE Original Design Model
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 Case Study 2 - Queensland Alumina – Australia Failure of Spent
Liquor Pumps

Fatigue Cracks

Line Stop Support

Failure (Cracked
Welds and
Sheared Bolts

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 Case Study 2 - Queensland Alumina – Australia Failure of Spent
Liquor Pumps

Redesigned Rigid
Structure with an
integrated Structural
and Pipestress model
for more accurate
design
Design Limit = 1.5mm
Structural Movement

Spent Liquor
Pumps

AutoPIPE
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 Case Study 3 - Metso Minerals, Madagascar Integrated Structural
+ Pipestress model

AutoCAD 3-D Pulverized Coal

System General Arrangement

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 Case Study 3 - Metso Minerals, Madagascar Integrated Structural
+ Pipestress model
One Beam makes all the difference!

Beam 1330
Supporting
Pipe

STAAD.Pro
AutoPIPE

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 Case Study 3 - Metso Minerals, Madagascar Integrated Structural
+ Pipestress model

GUIDE
B06
FY (lb) % Change
Strong -1915
Weak -2463 +29%

LINESTOP B12
BEAM 1330
FY (lb) % Change
• STRONG BEAM = HN 700
X 300 Strong -20400
• WEAK BEAM = HN 350 X Weak -17500 -17%
175
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 Case Study 4 - Solar Power Plant Hot Oil Piping
PROBLEM: The system was designed with Caesar without the structure and after
Start-Up the pumps failed. In the model with NO structure there is NO Overstress
but when re-Modeled in AutoPIPE with Structure from STAAD confirmed the
Piping system is overstressed and Pump loads too high. Output header also has
primary overstress when the supports that lift-off are removed.

Pump Failure
140% Overstress
Output Header
Under Sustained
Stress

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 Case Study 4 - Solar Power Plant Hot Oil Piping

PROBLEM: The Structure was too flexible to support all the piping loads

SOLUTION : New RIGID Structure integrated with a more accurate pipe stress model

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 Other AutoPIPE / STAAD Comments
1. Waste Water Treatment Plant, India
“AutoPIPE and STAAD.Pro used for analyses and design of the product,
including checking interferences and finalizing pipe routing. Seamless
software integration contributed to a shortened product qualification
process, saving 60 percent of the analysis and design cycle time. The
software also helped to coordinate with design teams on final assembly,
fabrication, and production and enabled the timely market launch of the
product.”
2. Offshore Platform, UK
“With a design-build schedule of 26 weeks, saved time by exporting piping
and structural models from current CAD applications to AutoPIPE and
STAAD.Pro. Integrating the piping and structural models allowed engineers
to analyze pipe work and steel work interaction under stress. This workflow
saved an estimated 220 man-hours and reduced material costs by 10
percent.”

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 Other AutoPIPE / STAAD Comments

3. Coal Fired Power Plant, Phillipines

“MicroStation, Bentley speedikon Architectural,
STAAD.Pro, STAAD.foundation,and AutoPIPE
contributed to a 50 percent reduction in interference
check time, 80 percent reduction in site non-
conformances, and 95 percent on-time delivery.”

INTERFERENCE

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