Build 2022.6.0.280
Release Status - June 2322, 2022
Features
The following general features are now available:
PRG Integration is now integrated with CEI
UI Changes
Entitlement ImprovementsPRG Help Documentation
NozzlePRO Integration Enhancements
Introducing NozzlePRO Vessel Link
NozzlePRO Integrations with DesignCalcs & Finglow
Key Uses/Attributes of Vessel Link
New Documentation Format
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The ASME degree of conservatism is now available from any PRG program.
PRG Help Documentation is now available.
The following features are now available with NozzlePRO:
NozzlePRO Vessel Link is now available.
NozzlePRO can now be integrated with DesignCalcs and Finglow.
All PRG documentation is now available from a single source and includes search functionality.
The following ASME Section VIII, Div 2 Part 5 Compliance
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Tools to Evaluate Stress States
Shell Verifications and Structural Stress Calculation
ASME Data Panel
Stress Classifications Guidelines with the New Criticality Evaluator
Model Verification
Ke – Strain Concentration Factor
Allowable Nozzle Loads 4
Updating Buckling Guidelines for Nozzles, Branches, and Pipe Shoes
Ability to Compute Hoop Direction Compressive Loads in Head Knuckles
Loading on Pipe Shoes and Saddles
Plotting the Minimum Principle Membrane Stress (113 or 115)
Changing Load Magnitudes
Buckling Mode Model Perturbation
Buckling Analysis for Shell Geometries 5
PCL Gold SSI Updates
Cumulative Damage – TES Calculations 6
Improvements to Modeling Welds
Fillet Overreach Model Construction Guidelines and Elements 7
Reinforcing Pad Enhancements
Pad UI and Template Enhancements
Region File Breakdown and Definitions
Pad Modifications 8
Drawing Tool Feature Updates
Drawing Tools Useful Commands
File Handling
Perturbation
Printing/Lists 9
Stability Processor Note Updates 10
Phased Harmonic Loads
Option #52 - Add Density to the Model
Option #53 - Modify the Solutions Options File (.SOP)
Option #53 - Integrate the Solution Options File (.SOP)
Variation of Damping Ratio
Acoustic Induced Vibration (AIV) Update 11
Nonlinear Elastic Plastic Solver Enhancements
Beam and Shell Models
Advanced Nonlinear Features
Additional MITCH Features
Physical Features of Reversed Plasticity
Buckling Mode Model Perturbation
Nonlinear Analysis Notes 12updates are now available.
Option 55 and Compressive Elastic Stress reports are now available to help evaluate stress states.
The Drawing Tools feature is now available, which help evaluate stress states, shell verifications and structural stress calculations (see below for more information on the Drawing Tools feature).
The ASME Data panel is now available.
The New Criticality Evaluator is now available.
The following features have been added to help with model verification:
Compressive Stress Report
Stability Processor Report
Elevation to Lower Bound Limit Load or Elastic-Plastic Model Review
Elastic/Plastic Analysis
Elastic-Eigenvalue Buckling
Elastic-Plastic Buckling with Perturbation
A variety of model perturbation features in the Drawing Tools.
Ke – Strain Concentration Factor is now available.
The Allowable Nozzle Loads feature is now available.
The following features regarding buckling guidelines for nozzles, branches, and pipe shoes are now available:
The ability to compute hoop direction on compressive loads in head knuckles is now available.
The ability to load pipe shoes and saddles is now available.
The ability to plot minimum principle membrane stress (113 or 115) is now available.
The ability to change load magnitudes is now available.
The ability to perturb the buckling model is now available.
Buckling analysis for shell geometries is now available.
The PCL Gold Sustained Stress Indexes (SSIs) updates are now available.
The Cumulative Damage – TES Calculations feature is now available.
The Fillet Overreach Model Construction Guidelines feature is now available to help with modeling welds.
The Reinforcing Pad feature is now available.
The Drawing Tools feature is now available.
Stability Processor Note updates are now available.
The following features regarding the phased harmonic loads are now available:
Option #52 is now available to help add density to the model.
Option #53 is now available to help modify the solutions options (.SOP) file.
Option #53 is now available to help integrate the .SOP file.
Variation of Damping Ratio functionality is now available.
Acoustic Induced Vibration (AIV) guidelines are now available.
The Nonlinear Elastic Plastic Solver is now available.
To access in-depth information about each feature, view