BENTLEY AUTOPIPE NEWS NOVEMBER 2008

WHAT DOES V8I STAND FOR? The i in the new V8i version stands for: intuitive, interactive, intrinsic, incredible, and interoperable. Bentley calls V8i the most comprehensive and significant release in its history, which took a total investment of over a billion dollars and spans across the vast array of disciplines that Bentley now caters toBridges, Buildings, Cadastre and Land Development, Campuses, Communications, Electric and Gas Utilities, Factories, Mining and Metals, Oil and Gas, Power Generation, Rail and Transit, Roads, and Water and Wastewater. Its underlying theme and mission continues to be Sustaining Infrastructure
"But that little i might as well stand for something bigger than all of usfor the power lines, utility networks, bridges, and roadways around us that we take for granted." - Cadalyst "Developing a wide range of applications for the largest projects makes features available to smaller projects that would otherwise not be feasible." - AEC Magazine http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Promo/V8i/index.htm

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TABLE OF CONTENTS What does V8i stand for? ............................................................. 1 New AutoPIPE V8i Release............................................................ 3 AutoPIPE V8i (v9.1) Highlights ...................................................... 4 AutoPIPE Nuclear Highlights ......................................................... 6 AutoPIPE Feature Presentations .................................................... 8 Some Major features in Upcoming AutoPIPE v9.2 ............................ 8 QAL Case Study .......................................................................... 9 AutoPIPE XM v8.9 / v9.0 Highlights ............................................. 12 Structural PLANT Portfolio .......................................................... 14 Integration Solutions ................................................................. 15 New STAAD.Pro Nuclear V8i ....................................................... 17 What is QA & Reporting (QA&R) Subscription? .............................. 18 Technotes ................................................................................ 19 AutoPIPE Website ..................................................................... 24 Discussion Forum ...................................................................... 25 Resources ................................................................................ 26 Training ................................................................................... 26 Tutorials .................................................................................. 28 EVENTS ................................................................................... 29 SELECT Announcement .............................................................. 36 Bentley SELECT Server XM Licensing ........................................... 37 SUBSCRIBE to Bentley Newstream .............................................. 39 Contacts .................................................................................. 39 Page | 2

NEW AUTOPIPE V8i RELEASE Bentley AutoPIPE V8i Edition (Commercial Release - v09.01.01.02 English) is now available Click here to download the PDF presentation highlighting all the new V8i features. New 32 & 64 bit VISTA compatible and RSS Feeds to keep in touch with latest AutoPIPE & Bentley news including seminars, case studies, new releases, technical FAQs etc. New AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i powered by ADLPipe combines ADLPipe the industrys most widely used nuclear piping analysis engine since 1972 with the innovative and productive modeling environment of Bentley AutoPIPE. See Highlights below.

LOCALIZED VERSIONS (V9.0) Polish Chinese Japanese Russian French

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AUTOPIPE V8i (V9.1) HIGHLIGHTS Click here to download the full PDF feature presentation of new V8i features See SELECT announcements below for list of major features New Edition AutoPIPE Nuclear V8i powered by ADLPipe

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AUTOPIPE NUCLEAR HIGHLIGHTS

First released in 1967, ADLPipe was the worlds first commercially available pipe stress analysis program. Since introducing the ASME NB Class 1 design code in 1972 for safety critical system. ADLPipe is backed by over 100 NRC audits and has been used in the analysis of nuclear safety critical pipework (ASME Class 1) and noncritical (Class 2 & 3) pipework for over 30 years. ADLPipe has been the piping analysis product of choice by Owner Operators and Contractors in the nuclear industry and used on many of the worlds 439 nuclear power plants.

Major new Features of AutoPIPE Nuclear: Comprehensive analysis capability, including ASME NB 3600 Class 1, ASME NC 3600 Class 2, ASME ND 3600 Class 3, material properties database, Class 1 components and joint type, rupture stress criterion, and comprehensive fatigue evaluation; Advanced analysis features Integrated through wall thermal gradient, fluid transient, thermal bowing or stratification, seismic response spectra enveloping and steam relief analyses. Legacy code years ASME NB and NC code years from 2004 back to 1972 for maintenance and operation on existing nuclear plants. Japanese JSME PPC - Class 2 piping code Unlimited Static Analyses User defined static load sets provides unlimited static analyses for specifying many different design scenarios. New fully automated and user defined stress combinations with powerful filtering capabilities to identify and solve complex problems quickly.

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Benefits of AutoPIPE Nuclear: Using a State of the Art graphical interface with unique graphical object, point & click, and copy/paste technologies it provides the most productive pipe stress program available. Major EPC companies say "I can make modifications quickly and, thus, find solutions in problem areas productively." Powerful interactive Excel-like spreadsheets to check, sort, print and make global changes to the data quickly 3D OpenGL rendering & smart component graphics for realistic animation and visualization Very fast advanced non-linear analysis engine Examine What-If scenarios Safer Structure, Piping and Equipment Integration with Structural design using #1 product STAAD.pro (Also qualified for nuclear NF design) for more accurate engineering designs. Automatic Stress Isometric generation with fully dimensioned customizable Iso and data including engineers mark-ups Batch processing for multiple loading evaluations or What-If scenarios Early design review decisions by Engineers, Designers & Contractors using ProjectWise Navigator XM Bentley, a leader in AEC software for 25 years, has provided reliable data exchange with CAD platforms like AutoPLANT, PlantSPACE, PDS, PDMS and SmartPLANT 3D for fast, accurate model creation

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AUTOPIPE FEATURE PRESENTATIONS

Click and download New Features Presentations below: AutoPIPE V8i v9.1 New Features PDF Document AUTOPIPE XM V9.0 NEW Features PDF Document AUTOPIPE XM V8.9 NEW Features PDF Document

SOME MAJOR FEATURES IN UPCOMING AUTOPIPE V9.2

Add Dynamic Analysis Sets Displacement Time History Multiple Support Response Spectrum Improvements to STAAD integration ProjectWise Integration Add Support For Network File Access Update to ASME B31.8 :2007 Export input grid data to MDB file Integration with SCORE Structural Database

Please send any comments, suggestions or feature requests to mark.upston@bentley.com

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QAL CASE STUDY

Queensland Alumina Ltd Case Study: Using AutoPIPE to Solve Extreme Plant Problems
Queensland Alumina was designed in the 1960s by Kaiser Engineers (USA) using hand calculations before the luxury of having advanced, easy to use computer programs for modeling and analysis of any type of loading condition. Now operating for 40 years, QAL is committed to high standards of design and safety. The production of Alumina is handling raw bauxite, hot caustic soda and high pressure steam. Throw in many high pressure flash tanks and pump dynamic cycling conditions and it is a cocktail of the most extreme operating conditions in any plant. Over time, pump failures along with pipe support and structural damage have caused significant maintenance costs as well as loss of production revenue due to downtime.

Using AutoPIPE now for six years, the on-site design team has solved numerous design supporting and structural problems and saving millions in maintenance and lost revenue costs. Recognizing the importance of integrated structural and piping analysis to capture more accurate, realistic and safer engineered designs, they have now purchased STAAD.Pro for their structural design. This investment in combined Bentley piping and structural analysis tools has not only Page | 9

already paid for itself but allowed them to streamline their mechanical and structural engineering design process. Click Here to view the full PDF Presentation Use of AutoPIPE at Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) by Senior Mechanical Engineer, Brian Lloyd. For more information on AutoPIPE, visit www.Bentley.com/AutoPIPE
AboutQueenslandAlumina QueenslandAlumina(QAL)isaUS$4BAustraliancompanyownedjointlybyRioTintoAlcanand RussiancompanyRusal,hasremainedasoneoftheworldslargestaluminarefineryforover40 years.LocatedinQueensland,witha1000+employeesandproducingnearly4milliontonnesof Aluminaperyear.Safetyisoftheupmostimportanceasthisrefineryhassomeofmost aggressiveprocesseshandlingbauxite,hotcausticsodaandhighpressuresteam. Extractingaluminafrombauxiteisacomplicated,energyintensivebusiness.Theoreisfirst groundintoapowder,thenplacedinvesselsandtreatedbyhighpressuresteamandcaustic agentstodissolvethecompoundoutoftheore.

To find out more please visit: http://www.qal.com.au/

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What some users saying about AutoPIPE

GREATER NOIDA, India Map India 2008 Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that TCE Consulting Engineers Ltd., a leading international consulting engineering firm providing services and sustainable solutions for power, transportation, water, building, manufacturing, spatial planning, and the environment that is part of the Tata Group of Companies, has joined Bentleys Enterprise License Subscription (ELS) program. For example, TCE Consulting Engineers recently deployed Bentley WaterGEMS and HAMMER, which are included in our ELS, on a water distribution modeling and transient analysis project for the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewage Board. Other usages include AutoPIPE, Bentleys pipe analysis solution, for power and other projects. By using these solutions we can deliver projects on time and on budget, and win future assignments based on our proven capabilities and accomplishments.

Cerro Verde is a copper and molybdenum mine in Peru. The project was to design a fresh water system that would provide a seamless system to improve the water supply to the old plant and establish an efficient water supply system for the new primary sulfide plant. GMI was required to expedite the design for the procurement of all equipments and materials, and for the bid process for the installation contract. It also needed to limit impact to existing operations. Using Bentley technology, GMI was able to perform the special calculations required for the project. For example, HAMMER performed calculation that allowed GMI to recommend device protections to avoid transient events and assure normal operation. In addition, Bentley AutoPIPE performed piping stress analysis to determine required pipe sizing, supports, and anchors.

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AUTOPIPE XM V8.9 / V9.0 HIGHLIGHTS Did you miss the Major XM Benefits? Click here to download the detailed XM features.

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AutoPIPE XM Did you know you can automatically create a custom isometric for your CAD Designer, Structural Engineer, Contractor or Consultant?

StressISO - fully dimensioned stress isometric and custom input/result data tables. (Requires add-on license). Add Engineer comments, reference equipment like pumps or steelwork and support CAD tags. Markup the isometric in Bentley Redline or AutoCAD or 3rd party program.

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STRUCTURAL PLANT PORTFOLIO Click here to find out more details about these products ProSteel 3D

AutoPIPE

STAAD.Pro

STAAD Foundation

ProjectWise Naviator

RAM Connection Page | 14

INTEGRATION SOLUTIONS

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PlantFLOW

PULS

AutoPIPE

Transfer 3D Conceptual model for accelerated Pipe Stress Design

PlantWise

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New STAAD.PRO NUCLEAR V8i

Nuclear Code licensing & ProjectWise Integration

Multiple ASME NF Structural Design Code Years

Generate Floor Spectrum Responses

Plate Stress Contour Plot Animation

Enhanced Australian Steel Databases

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WHAT IS QA & REPORTING (QA&R) SUBSCRIPTION? This subscription is available to both STAAD.pro and AutoPIPE customers to meet strict nuclear software configuration requirements.

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TECHNOTES 1. Ever wondered what the load sequencing is all about? View Load_Sequencing.pdf in AutoPIPE program folder or click here

2. How to copy AutoCAD or Microstation XY or XYZ coordinates into AutoPIPE V8i? a) Export the coordinates out to comma delimited format (csv) or XLS then open in Excel. http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/qaID.asp?tip=6289 http://www.la-solutions.co.uk/content/FlexiTable.htm b) Define a new model in AutoPIPE e.g. 8 pipe with 1- points @ 1 spacing

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c) Then copy the XYZ coordinates and paste into AutoPIPE Point Grid Only the 1st cell under Global X needs to be selected in the Point Grid Note: This method also works to copy/paste point offsets instead of absolute coordinates. MS Excel

Hint: Use the Apply Offset option = checked, from right click menu in the Point menu.

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3. AutoPIPE New User tips & tricks available including modeling guidelines for Caesar Users click here to download 4. How to define Non-Linear Wind cases click here to download 5. What are Unconservative Intermediate stresses? Do you know that AutoPIPE is the only pipe stress program to automatically calculate intermediate stresses along the pipe and around bends? This can result in typically 5-15% higher stresses. In other programs, you have to define additional node points in the model. But where do you define them and most often not possible around bends or elbows? Tools > Model Options > Result

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6. Several popular discussion questions: Q1: Why are the anchor reactions so large for an open pipe segment?

Answer: Remember there is no such thing as open pipe with pressure. The pipe is assumed closed at both ends, just like a pressure vessel. The axial deformation changes with pipe length, but axial force does not and is dependent on: a) Extension due Pressure cap force (P*Ai) b) Shortening from diameter increase due to Poisson effect The end anchors take the axial force of 16400 lbs, while intermediate supports and anchors have no such force. The reason is that the intermediate anchor reaction force cancels out. Click Here to view this example and mathcad anchor calculations

Q2: Do we have to check thermal range stresses e.g. T1-T2 when checking against ASME codes B31.3 or B31.1? Answer: As per ASME B31.3-2004 section 319.2.3 and B31.1-2004 section 119.2 you would need to consider all possible operating scenarios. Ambient is your installation temperature in AutoPIPE. The following Operating ranges should be considered as valid operating scenarios Installation to maximum (Amb to T1) Installation to minimum (Amb to T2) Page | 22

Maximum to Minimum (T1 to T2)

That is if (T1 to T2) is a valid operation thermal cycle where the temperature goes from extreme hot to extreme cold then (T1 to T2) should be checked, otherwise it should not. The option "Number of thermal ranges = 0" under Tools/Model Options/Results removes printing of thermal ranges Also if "Include Maximum Range combination" option is selected, the program will automatically create a special code combination called "Max Range" that stores the results of the maximum thermal range stress case, e.g. T1 to T3, including thermal ranges from ambient temperature, e.g. Ambient to T1. This option is useful to view the maximum expansion stress only due to the worst thermal range loading than having to manually check each thermal range stress.

Q3: Flexible joint asks for axial stiffness and it assumes it along x-axis, why? Answer: In the flexible joint dialog, axial stiffness refers to local Xaxis while shear Y and Z are local Y and Z axes. You can find out about Local pipe axes from the online help Reference>Results Interpretation> Straight Pipe Forces and Moments: Local Option and these are used when showing local forces and moments, but here is a summary: Local X-axis: along segment direction Local Y-axis: in vertical plane and normal local-X. For vertical pipe it is Global Z. Click Here to view local coordinate axis system

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AUTOPIPE WEBSITE

AutoPIPE website gets a Facelift . http://www.bentley.com/autopipe We welcome all case study contributions please send a brief summary of how AutoPIPE was used on the project plus a screen shot and/or photo of the plant or project to mark.upston@bentley.com Please obtain permission from your company marketing and/or manager.

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DISCUSSION FORUM
We would like to invite our customers around the world to participate in the AutoPIPE discussion group at http://discussion.bentley.com/ Under bentley.com/autopipe. A discussion group is only useful to the user community with active and interesting questions and comments on topics like piping codes, modeling techniques and analysis features etc so please post your questions.

We have a team of professional piping engineers who will moderate and answer your questions as best we can. Any specific reported defect or feature enhancement, please submit these to support@bentley.com.

These will be moving to Bentley Communities Forums shortly. http://communities.bentley.com/forums/default.aspx

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RESOURCES

Check out the extensive FAQ's and Technotes for CAE applications

Under the Plant Vertical, check out AutoPIPE, WinNOZL and PlantFLOW FAQs http://web.archive.org/web/20080212032202/selectservices.be ntley.com/en-US/Support/Support+Tools/TechNotes+and+FAQs/

There is a new Bentley Wiki below and most of this content will be moved over in the coming months http://communities.bentley.com/Wiki/view.aspx/Product_TechNotes_a nd_FAQs

TRAINING

You will need to login to this SELECT website Self-Paced AutoPIPE Training classes at Bentley SELECT for beginners under PLANT http://lms.bentley.com/us/desktopdefault.aspx, select Course offerings ID 47 http://lms.bentley.com/globalelearning/desktopmodules/SearchResults.aspx ?catId=0&tabindex=4&tabid=255&description=PRODAutoPIPE&count=1&cat1=80

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AutoPIPE Basic Training class schedule for beginners and advanced users

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http://lms.bentley.com/us/desktopdefault.aspx, select Course offerings then ID 2

Please Contact Sam Rubenzer (Wisconsin) for all training enquiries Sam.Rubenzer@bentley.com or +(1)-(715) 563-5390

Basic training: On-site or Houston (USA) locations, covering basic model building, AutoPIPE interface, 5 hands on sample models looking at nonlinear, hanger analysis, wind and seismic, equipment reports, load combinations and review of stress results. Flexible joints, cold spring and nozzle flexibility and libraries are also covered

Advanced training: On-site or Houston (USA) locations, covering topics like vessel modeling, local stress, jacketed piping, time history, response spectrum, harmonic and force spectrum analysis, fluid transients e.g. water or steam hammer, steam relief, soil modeling and submerged piping. Below is link the course outline: AutoPIPE training course outline

TUTORIALS
Dont have time for training or looking to brush up on some portions of AutoPIPE you havent used in a while? Check out our movie tutorials on over 60 different modeling and post processing topics in APIPEDEMOS.CHM located in the AutoPIPE program folder or launch from the Help menu i.e. Help > Tutorials

You can also print the current tutorial in the PDF file located in the program folder AutoPIPE\apdoc.pdf

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EVENTS

Upcoming Events
Structural & AutoPIPE seminars on Monday, December 8, 2008 Seminar in Houston, Texas Seminar covering integration of Bentley's ProSteel, STAAD.pro, AutoPIPE and STAAD offshore and RAM connection for subsea, petrochemical, and offshore industries. http://www.bentley.com/enUS/Corporate/Events/Seminars/Structural+Plant.htm

Structural & AutoPIPE 2008 Seminars in UK Wednesday, 26th November in London and Wednesday, 3rd December in Aberdeen Seminars covering integration of Bentley's ProSteel, STAAD.pro, AutoPIPE and STAAD offshore http://www.bentley.com/enGB/Promo/Structural+Team/Structural+Event.htm

Past Events
Calgary Seminar Thursday, November 6, 2008 Integrated Applications for Plant Structures Using Bentley ProSteel, AutoPIPE, and STAAD.Pro. See How Integrated Design, Analysis, and Documentation in Your Structural Workflow Can Be Achieved. About 50 structural and piping engineers from major companies like PetroCanada, Worley Parsons Canada, Hatch Energy, Jacobs Canada Inc., and TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. were in attendance.

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Bentley Digital Innovation Seminar, Tuesday 28th October 2008 Tokyo, Japan

Co-hosted by Bentley Japan and ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC), the event was held at the InterContinental Tokyo Bay hotel overlooking the bay and Rainbow Bridge. Phil Senior and Santanu Das presented sessions about the advanced technology added to STAAD.Pro V8i that included the performance advantages of the advanced solver, STAAD.Foundation, ASME NF nuclear support design and RAM Connection; the latest release of AutoPIPE and the integration of ADLPipe including the new nuclear ASME Class 1 features of AutoPIPE Nuclear. A live demonstration of STAAD and AutoPIPE integration and its effective use by Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) in a real life case study to over 100 delegates.

OpenPlant and AutoPIPE Seminar on the 11th.July, 2008 in Manila, Philippines. The seminar was held in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The morning session was in English and the afternoon session for the Japanese companies in Philippines in their native language Japanese. The inaugural speech with the corporate presentation on AutoPIPE was shown by Mr.Christopher Liew, Territory Executive for Asia South. Mr. Santanu Chakraborti talked about the general features of AutoPIPE and how it fits with the OpenPlant concept focusing also on the integration with STAAD. In the afternoon session our colleagues in Bentley Japan Mr.Takayuki Arai Territory Executive for North Asia, Page | 30

Mr.Takaaki Takase, and Mr.Toshitaka Okamoto were among the speakers who explained the capabilities of OpenPlant and interoperability of AutoPIPE. Thanks to Mr.Emerito Garcia, the Bentley Philippines manager and his team arranging the seminar and making it a huge success.

ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping conference, Chicago 2008

Bentley hosted a booth at the ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping conference in

Chicago in July 2008. The theme for the conference was Nuclear Renaissance Strong interest was received in the integrated Structural+ Piping & Nuclear solutions from Bentley. With the reemergence of Nuclear Power worldwide, the new AutoPIPE Nuclear powered by ADLPipe will be the most comprehensive nuclear piping solution on the market. Both these themes attracted a strong interest in both small and large companies attending like Sargent & Lundy, JGC, Areva, PBMR, KOPEC, Westinghouse, Ontario Power etc. We also highlighted the new STAAD V8i Nuclear product which provides multiple ASME NF code years and floor spectrum generation.

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BE conference May 2008 Baltimore, USA More than 2000 people attended the BE conference which was held May 28-30, 2008 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Infrastructure is the structural foundation of our worlds civilization. Facing the now-critical imperative of sustainability, infrastructure professionals bear a heavy load and substantial backlog of work. At the same time, the numbers of new entrants to infrastructure professions are not sufficient for our global needs. BE Conference 2008 provided an ideal venue for decision makers and senior practitioners seeking to advance their organizations ability to compete and respond to the imperatives of the worlds infrastructure. Attendees shared in best practices among peers who are working smarter through pragmatic innovations developed organically." That explains our theme for the 2008 user conference: Best Practices for Sustaining Infrastructure.

Click on the link below to view past BE Award nominees and winners. http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Community/BE+Awards/

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AutoPIPE Nuclear Seminar, Asia, March 3rd - 17th, 2008 Checking the Nuclear Pulse in Asia Mark Upston, CAE Senior Product Manager presents 5 full day AutoPIPE seminars, and 5 company visits hopping across 4 countries.

Background Most of the nuclear design & construction outside the USA will happen in Asia (particularly China) over the next 40 years. Major Japanese companies like Toshiba, Hitachi, JNFL already have joint ventures to share nuclear technologies with USA companies for new design & build nuclear power plants in the USA. So it was worth a visit to present our Bentley nuclear piping & structural software solutions, visit these companies and check the nuclear pulse in the region.

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SELECT ANNOUNCEMENT Bentley AutoPIPE V8i Edition (Commercial Release v9.01.01.02 English) Now Available! This release has been fully certified for production use.
Bentley AutoPIPE V8i (v09.01.01.02) - this is a SELECT Maintenance Release to replace commercial release v09.01.00.27 Bentley AutoPIPE V8i is a stand-alone, Microsoft Windows engineering application used for the calculation of piping stresses, fatigue stresses, fluid transient, bowing or thermal transient analysis, flange or pipe support design, and equipment nozzle loading analysis under static and dynamic loading conditions. In addition to 24 piping codes, AutoPIPE incorporates ASME, JSME, British Standard, European, API, NEMA, ANSI, ASCE, AISC, UBC, and WRC guidelines and design limits to provide a comprehensive analysis of the entire system. AutoPIPEs object-based graphical interface provides fast model creation using 'point and click' across the model and cut, copy and paste features that reduce repetitive input by the user. The input spreadsheet grids allow making global changes and finding differences & sorting into logical data groups. On-screen graphical and spreadsheet results allow identifying problem stressed areas quickly. With the Bentley AutoPIPE StressISO Add-on license, fully dimensioned stress isometric drawings can be automatically generated. Major new V8i features include: New AutoPIPE Nuclear powered by ADLPipe edition Vista compatibility RSS News Feed ASME Class 1, 2, 3 code design for multiple years back to 1972 JSME PPC 2005 nuclear code ASME B31.1 2007, B31.4 2006 & B31.3 2006 code update Integrated thermal transient analysis and Fatigue analysis for class 1 Unlimited static analyses for different loading scenarios Re-designed post processing combinations New Standalone translators: SmartPlant to AutoPIPE & ADLPipe to AutoPIPE Updated read / write integration with Caesar v5.1 Improve segment management Supporting CAD line numbers Improved StressISO to handle more complex isometrics

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BENTLEY SELECT SERVER XM LICENSING Upgrading Your Current Product The Bentley V8i releases of AutoPIPE, AutoPIPE Plus, AutoPIPE Nuclear and add-ons are all supported on the SELECT Server XM Licensing. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of the product, it is highly recommended that you do not install this product over the previous version. Please uninstall previous versions of 9.1 (AutoPIPE V8i) before installing this v09.01.01.02 maintenance release. Older versions of AutoPIPE 6.3, 8.50, 8.51, 8.60, 8.90 and 9.0 will run under SELECT Server XM Licensing using the SELECT Server XM Gateway Service and the older SELECT licenses. The AutoPIPE products can be authorized as Standalone Licenses (formerly called Fixed Licenses), fixed to one user workstation or as Concurrent Licenses (formerly known as Floating Licenses) running from a local or Bentley hosted SELECT Server XM. Using SELECT Server XM requires a valid Bentley Serial Number, site server name and activation code to authorize the application. The Serial Number you received when you purchased the application is used to obtain a License File to complete the authorization process. For more information on the SELECT Server XM Gateway Service see the AutoPIPE Quickstart.pdf. The AutoPIPE products can be authorized as Standalone Licenses (formerly called Fixed Licenses), fixed to one user workstation or as Concurrent Licenses (formerly known as Floating Licenses) running from a local or Bentley hosted SELECT Server XM. Authorizing a Standalone License If you are upgrading an existing installation to run on one workstation, and you have License Tool privileges you can obtain a license file to complete the authorization process. Access the License Tool at http://selectservices.bentley.com/ from My Support Account menu located on the left. Once you complete your request you will receive an email including a License File with instructions for completing the process. Page | 37

Authorizing Concurrent Licenses to Run on SELECT Server XM Concurrent Licenses (formerly known as Floating Licenses) are now managed through Bentley SELECT Server XM, a benefit of Bentley SELECT. Using SELECT Server XM requires a valid Bentley Serial Number, site server name and activation code to authorize the application. The Serial Number you received when you purchased the application is used to obtain a License File to complete the authorization process. For more licensing information see the AutoPIPE Quickstart.pdf Important: A signed SELECT agreement must be on file in order to convert your licenses from Floating Licensing to Concurrent Licensing. Users who have existing Floating Licenses and wish to convert the licenses to run on SELECT Server XM can contact BAC from the website at http://www.bentley.com/enUS/Services/Bentley+Administration+Centers.htm. The following information is required when requesting SELECT Server XM licensing: Server Name, email address of the recipient of the SELECT Server XM license and the Serial Numbers to be added to the server. To download or create a CD: Bentley SELECT subscribers can go to SELECTservices Online http://selectservices.bentley.com/ and then go to Web Downloads (Downloads > Web Downloads) and search by Product = Bentley AutoPIPE. Choose the Download Category = "SELECT Released Products" and Files posted in last = 6 months.

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CONTACTS Please click on the link below for further sales or technical information http://www.bentley.com/BentleyWebSite/Tools/sales_contact.aspx

Senior CAE product Manager: mark.upston@bentley.com Technical Support: 1-800-Bentley or 1 800 778 4277 & press 7 for AutoPIPE

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