SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC STRESS ANALYSIS COMPARISON

摘要

Electronic comparison methods are described for determining changes in a current design model with respect to an earlier model and analyzing the impact of the identified changes. The method includes associating a priority value with a set of modified component objects using one or more algorithms and presenting a subset of the set of component objects, each of which has a priority value greater than a threshold value.

主权项

1. A method for electronically identifying changes between first and second piping models, comprising:
providing access to a comparison engine configured to receive first and second piping models, wherein each of the first and second piping models comprises a plurality of component objects; comparing parameters of each of the plurality of component objects in the second piping model with parameters of the plurality of component objects in the first piping model using the comparison engine to identify a set of component objects in the second piping model each having at least one modified parameter; analyzing each of the modified parameters using an analysis engine coupled to a database of stored parameter ranges for a plurality of stored component objects; wherein the analysis engine is configured to (a) match each component object of the set of component objects with a stored component object, (b) compare the modified parameters of that component object with the one or more stored parameter ranges of the matched stored component object for each component object of the set of component objects, and (c) associate a priority value with each of the set of component objects using one or more algorithms as a function of a difference between the modified parameter and the stored parameter range; and configuring a model interface to present a subset of the set of component objects, wherein each of the component objects of the subset have a priority value greater than a threshold value.