The program is integrated in Scia Engineer. A special wizard has been developed to be able to make the input fast and easy. The benefit of using the platform from Scia Engineer is that many existing functions can be used which have been tested all over the world. This improves the quality of the special pipeline program and also guarantees the continuity in the future; it is not a new stand-alone program that can only be used for pipeline calculations. The program can also be used for many other structural calculations. Within Scia Pipeline you can model 3D pipelines taking into account large displacements and deflections.
The pipeline will have an interaction with the soil or only with water (sinking of pipelines). The whole calculation will be done in construction stages. For each stage the geometry and the soil properties can be defined and loading and displacement history from the previous stages is taken into consideration. This implies that during the overall calculation, pieces of the pipeline can be removed or added, soil properties can be changed and loading can be added or removed.
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