Committed to the nuclear industry since 1967, the ADLPipe (the former name of AutoPIPE) was the first commercial program available in the world for the stress analysis of nuclear plant piping. Since the introduction of the ASME NB Class 1 design code in 1972 for safety critical systems, AutoPIPE has successfully passed over 100 NRC audits and has been used in the analysis of safety critical (Class 1) and non-critical (Classes 2 and 3) over more than 40 years.
AutoPIPE meets the strictest quality standards in the nuclear industry and is NUPIC approved for use in nuclear plant design in the United States.
In addition to the nuclear codes, AutoPIPE has more than 20 international piping codes, with multiple editions on many of them. To ensure and control the results AutoPIPE contains more than 100 benchmark cases for nuclear codes and more than 500 benchmark cases for non-nuclear codes.
These cases include those examples included in the standards as example.
AutoPIPE powered by ADLPipe is supported by a strict Quality Assurance and Reporting (QA&R) control program in accordance with ASME NQA-1, ISO-9001, CSA N286.7-99, ASME N45.2 and 10CFR50 standards and backed by independent audits of NRC and NUPIC clients. Nuclear clients are offered an additional QA&R service which is underwritten by clients such as Washington Group International, Shaw Stone and Webster, Fluor Federal Services and Areva NP.
Released in 1967, the ADLPipe was the first commercial program available in the world for stress analysis of nuclear power plant piping. See+
Bentley has more than 600 Test cases that are used to verify each release.
To verify the Nuclear edition the AutoPIPE Acceptance Test (supplied with the software to the Nuclear Users) has more than 100 cases typically for Nuclear Safety Related System design and Analysis.
Advanced Boiling Water Reactor
| Standards | Years |
| ASME NB Nuclear | 1972 W Addenda, 1975 W Addenda, 1977, 1982 W Addenda, 1983 W Addenda, 1988 Addenda, 1989, 1989 Addenda, 1993 Addenda, 1994 Addenda, 1997 Addenda, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008 Addenda, 2010, 2011 Addenda, 2013, 2015, 2017 |
| ASME NC Nuclear | 1972 W Addenda, 1975 W Addenda, 1977, 1980 S Addenda, 1983 W Addenda, 1988 Addenda, 1989, 1989 Addenda, 1993 Addenda, 1994 Addenda, 1997 Addenda, 1998, 2001, 2003 Addenda, 2004, 2007, 2008 Addenda, 2010, 2011 Addenda, 2013, 2015, 2017 |
| ASME ND Nuclear | 1972 W Addenda, 1975 W Addenda, 1977, 1980 S Addenda, 1983 W Addenda, 1988 Addenda, 1989, 1989 Addenda, 1993 Addenda, 1994 Addenda, 1997 Addenda, 1998, 2001, 2003 Addenda, 2004, 2007, 2008 Addenda, 2010, 2011 Addenda, 2013, 2015, 2017 |
| JSME PPC Nuclear | 2005, 2008 |
There are many other codes available.
