INCREASED NUMBER OF THERMAL LOADS: The number of Thermal Loads is increased from 3 to 10. This can be initialized through Layout window > Options > Analysis > Temperature.

INCREASED NUMBER OF WIND LOADS: The number of Wind Loads are increased to 4. This can be defined through Layout window > Loads > Wind, Wind2, Wind3 and Wind4.

LOT MORE LOAD CASES/COMBINATIONS: With the above new features, CAEPIPE now can perform analysis for

• 10 Thermal Loads

• 4 Wind cases

• 10 Thermal Displacements for Anchors and Nozzles

• 95+ load combinations

• Expansion Stresses for 50+ thermal ranges

• Flange Equivalent Pressure for 10 Operating cases. Highest of 10 Operating cases is reported in the output

• Support Load Summary for 150+ combinations and

• Rotating Equipment reports for 10 Operating cases

UPDATED B31 and EN PIPING CODES: Following piping codes are updated. Refer Annexure-A of ReadMeSupplement_v7.pdf for more details.

• ASME B31.1 (2012)

• ASME B31.3 (2012)

• ASME B31.4 (2012)

• ASME B31.5 (2013)

• ASME B31.8 (2012)

• EN 13480 (2012)

UPDATED MATERIAL LIBRARIES: Material libraries for the following codes are updated.

• ASME B31.1 (2012)

• ASME B31.3 (2012)

• ASME B31.4 (2012)

• ASME B31.5 (2013)

• ASME B31.8 (2012)

NEW API 610: API Standard 610 is updated to API Standard 610 (Tenth Edition, 2004) / ISO 13709.

USER-DEFINED ALLOWABLES: New feature added to define "User Allowables" for Anchors, Generic Supports, Nozzles and Restraints through Misc > User Allowables. The allowables thus defined are compared against calculated loads and printed in Support Load Summary outputs. If the calculated loads exceed the allowables, they are highlighted in red.

New buttons added to define direction of Limit Stop and Skewed Restraint in Axial, Shear y and Shear z directions of piping while inputting.

CHANGE IN THERMAL ALLOWABLE CALC: Starting with this version, Cold allowable (Sc) and Hot allowable (Sh) used in Thermal Stress calculations are modified as follows for all codes.

• For Expansion Cases T1 through T10, Cold allowable (Sc) = Minimum(Tref, Tn) and Hot allowable (Sh) = Maximum(Tref, Tn), where n = 1 to 10

• For Thermal Ranges Tx-Ty, Cold allowable (Sc) = Minimum(Tx, Ty) and Hot allowable (Sh) = Maximum(Tx, Ty), where x = 1 to 10 and y = 1 to 10 and also x != y.

New feature added to include the direction of Limit Stop in Support Load Summary heading to identify different Limit Stops defined at a particular node.

Hanger catalog "COMET" has been updated to include two new ranges, V4 and V5.

NOTE: For FRP Material Allowables, since CAEPIPE uses the user-input axial allowables for hoop allowables, in cases where both are different from each other, the reported Hoop stress/Allowable ratios will be incorrect. Please enter the correct allowables for hoop (under Axial All.) and re-analyze model for the correct hoop stress/allowable ratios.

Bug Correction: Element forces in global coordinates for Beams were not printed properly in the output (i.e., through printer, text file, csv file and print preview). However, results displayed on screen were correct.