Highlights

Blind flanges

The Heat Exchanger and Special Flange connection type has been enhanced to include flat covers/blinds designed as per ASME BPVC Sec. VIII Div. 1 UG-34 types J and K.

This will allow the you to do calculations for heat exchanger channel covers and other flat covers/blinds used for different types of equipment. Design conditions (pressure, bolt relaxation and temperature) have been integrated, which will allow for a detailed review of joint conditions at all stages of applied, assembly, operating, design and test.

Note: As a consequence of Heat Exchanger and Special Flange updates, when opening saved calculations, you may have to make some new selections and add new inputs. Most of the old selections and inputs were matched to the new updates, but unfortunately not all could be matched. These new selections and inputs are required for running the old calculation based on the lasted Heat Exchanger and Special Flange updates. You will be able to able to download the old reports from Joint manager, Work Pack manger or Calculation manager without opening the joint in the calculator screen. To be able to do is, you will have to download the reports before opening the calculation and resaving it.

EEMUA 234 solid weld neck flanges

In addition of ASME B16.5 CuNi weld neck flanges, the user now has the possibility of analysing CuNi 90/10 solid weld neck flanges designed to EEMUA 234. The flanges have been added to meet EEMUA 234 materials and flange facing requirements.

New nut dimensions standards for metric bolts

To meet the requirements of different nut dimension standards used for metric bolts, the ASME PCC-1 2019 connection type now allows the user to select from: DIN 934 Hex., ISO 4032 Hex., ISO 4034 Hex., ASME B18.2.4.6M Heavy Hex. nut standards. This will allow the user to select the correct low profile torque tool to match the dimensions of the select nut dimensions standard. For imperial bolts, only ASME B18.2.2 Heavy Hex. nuts are available, to meet the requirements of the ASME PCC-1 standard with regards to nut thickness being equal to one nominal bolt diameter.

Temporary joint tags

To improve the workflow to be used for preparing work packs, new functionally has been introduced to allow the use of temporary joint tags unique to each work pack. The temporary tag will now be defined at work pack level, as opposed to being added when the calculation was saved or edited.

The project status report has been updated to include individual rows for a joint that is added to multiple work packs. Combined with work pack unique temporary join tags, this will allow the user to get a better overview of joints that are worked on multiple work packs and have different joint statuses. N.B. The project status report is only available to nominated users.

Please note, this feature is not active by default but can be enabled by speaking to our support team. Please contact [email protected] for assistance.