Ple4Win
Analysis Options
Ple4Win provides various analysis options to enable the design engineer to adjust to specific structural circumstances:
- Linear elastic, isotropic pipe material behaviour
- Linear elastic, anisotropic pipe material behaviour
- Elasto-plastic pipe material behaviour
- Continuous and articulated structural pipeline behaviour
- Small displacement and rotation, geometric linear structural pipeline behaviour
- Large displacement and rotation, geometric non-linear structural pipeline behaviour
- Elasto-plastic soil support behaviour
- Buried, partly buried or on top of soil, soil models or above ground
- Direction dependent soil support; adjustment to pipe deformation direction
- Upheaval buckling
- External supports in various structural shapes
- Elastic in situ bends
- Higher order bend behaviour, including influence of connecting straight legs
- Integrated pressure-related cross-section behaviour
- Integrated soil-support related cross-section behaviour
- Redistribution of cross-sectional deformation due to shell behaviour
- Phasing of construction
- Pipeline networks
- Steel in Steel pipelines (SIS) or steel cased pipeline (SCP)
- Miter bends or mitred bends
Analysis limitations
No dynamic behaviour of the pipeline is taken into account, only quasi-dynamic static loads and deformations