Piping analysis systems

摘要

A piping analysis system capable of generating proposed piping support assemblies when off-the-self part is unavailable is presented. Contemplated analysis systems comprise a piping modeling system, which models a piping infrastructure as piping nodes having attributes describing the nature of the nodes. A piping support assembly design engine aggregates the attribute information from piping nodes and correlates the attributes with known materials that might be applicable for constructing the proposed assemblies. The design engine generates a proposed assembly and configures an output device to present the assembly along with a likelihood representing feasibility that the proposed assembly can in fact be designed or manufactured.

主权项

1. A piping analysis system, comprising:
a piping analysis engine configured to generate a piping model comprising piping nodes, each node further comprising node attributes; a material database storing material objects having material properties; a design engine coupled with the piping analysis engine and the material database and configured to:
identify materials for a proposed piping support assembly by correlating at least one piping node's attributes with material properties of at least one material object;generate a proposed piping support assembly as a function of the piping node's attributes and the material properties;determine a design likelihood that the proposed piping support assembly can be designed; andconfigure an output device to present the proposed piping support assembly and design likelihood to a user.