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PRG Company News
Please click on the following link [ Press Release (pdf)] to view the PRG Press Release which contains recent company news for PRG Including:
- News on PRG's updated web site
- Additional information on software product releases
- Information on Pipe Stress and FEA Training Seminars in Houston & Calgary
- Training will include coverage of FE/Pipe, NozzlePRO, and PCL-Gold
- Changes in PRG's support group
- Other company news
For more information, please visit PRG's updated web site at www.paulin.com
Training Seminars in Houston & Calgary
Please click on the following link [ Training Seminars (pdf)] to view our flyer on Training Seminars that PRG will be conducting in Houston and Calgary on the following dates:
Calgary - March 19-22
Houston - April 17-20
The brochure includes information on the proposed training agenda.
Best Regards,
PRG Marketing & Sales Staff
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NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE
2012 Product Changes
Paulin Research Group is changing the way in which we bundle / sell our technology. Effective immediately, we will sell three products:
FE/Pipe v6.5
- FE/Pipe will include AxiPRO, NozzlePRO, MatPRO, 661PRO, Fitness for Service, and NH Reporting as permanent modules / specialized templates within the program (not as separate installations).
- FE/Pipe clients who have active maintenance plans (SMS) will receive access to FE107, FESIF, FEBend, FETee and the PCL-Gold pipe stress program.
- FE/Pipe clients who are current on their Software Maintenance Service (SMS) as of 15 February 2012, will receive permanent access to FE661. FE661 will be re-branded as 661PRO.
- AxiPRO will only be available as a part of FE/Pipe.
- 661PRO will only be available as a part of FE/Pipe.
- The purchase price for FE/Pipe will increase, but the annual maintenance fees remain the same.
NozzlePRO v8.5
- NozzlePRO will include MatPRO, Fitness for Service and NH Reporting as permanent modules / specialized templates within the program (not as separate installations).
- NozzlePRO clients who have active maintenance plans (SMS) will receive access to FE107 & FESIF.
- NozzlePRO clients who are current on their Software Maintenance Service (SMS) as of 15 February 2012, will receive permanent access to MatPRO, Fitness for Service calcs and NH Reporting (High Temperature).
- Both the purchase price and the annual maintenance for NozzlePRO will increase. NozzlePRO clients have the option of renewing maintenance at their current rate between now and 31 March 2012. Maximum allowed maintenance extension is through 31 December 2013.
BOS Fluids v4.5
- BOS Fluids is being re-written by Dynaflow Research Group and Paulin Research Group. As soon as the new release is available, BOS Fluids clients will be contacted with options for continuing support and/or upgrading to the newest version.
- BOS Fluids is no longer sold bundled with FE/Pipe. It is only available as a separate / stand-alone product.
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Paulin Research Group (PRG) - Finite Element Software for Piping and Pressure Vessels
ImageGrafix Software FZCO is Paulin Research Group's representative partner covering all the countries within the Middle East, North Africa and India territories. Paulin Research Group (PRG) develops FEA software for the Petrochemical, Power, Offshore and Chemical Industries. Founder and President Tony Paulin, is the original author and architect of the CAESAR II® pipe stress analysis program, and established PRG to apply the latest FEA and fluid analysis technology to the piping and pressure vessel (PVP) industries. PRG has conducted numerous leak and fatigue tests since 2001 and the results are incorporated into our software to make plant components more dependable and increase plant safety.
Paulin Research Group announces the PRG2011 - New Software Versions
Download the PRG2011 Major Features List
FE/Pipe
FE/Pipe is the most mature and comprehensive product offered by Paulin Research Group. The application areas are a superset of the PRO series with additional functionality. FE/Pipe is a finite element analysis specifically designed for use in the pressure vessel and piping (PVP) industry. What separates FE/Pipe from the rest of the general FEA tools is its ability to rapidly construct PVP geometries and produce ASME stress reports. FE/Pipe makes modelling typical pressure vessel and piping geometries faster and easier than is possible with general FEA tools due to the parametric design philosophy. The parametric approach used in FE/Pipe permits even novice finite element analysts to construct accurate models using only dimensional input. FE/Pipe automatically creates the model geometry, element mesh, applied loads, and boundary conditions based on standard dimensions. Results are presented in terms of ASME requirements instead of generalized stress tensors and stress intensities as would typically be found in general FEA tools.
FE/Pipe will include AxiPRO, NozzlePRO, MatPRO, 661PRO, Fitness for Service, and NH Reporting as permanent modules / specialized templates within the program (not as separate installations). FE/Pipe clients who have active maintenance plans (SMS) will receive access to FE107, FESIF, FEBend, FETee and the PCL-Gold pipe stress program.
View FE/PIPE Brochure
NozzlePRO
NozzlePRO is a component analysis tool for piping and pressure vessels. The tool brings the accuracy of the finite element method to the engineering community for general design and analysis. NozzlePRO is based on the technology offered in FE/Pipe with a user interface that simplifies input and allows engineers to quickly analyze piping and pressure components with a high degree of accuracy.
NozzlePRO technology is a significant improvement over the limitations inherent in WRC 107/297 methods. WRC methods are accurate across a small subset of ranges found in industrial applications. Since NozzlePRO is based on the finite element method, there are application constraints based on geometry.
Evaluate nozzles, saddles, pipe shoes and clips on shell or heads. Modeled head types include...
- Conical
- Dished
- Elliptical
- Spherical
Inputs include thermal, weight, operating, occasional, pressure, wind and earthquake loads as well as material and nozzle orientation. A NozzlePRO license is included with each FE/Pipe license.
AxiPRO
AxiPRO is a computer program designed to analyse axisymmetric geometries including flanged joints. The flange components are modelled using the finite element method to ensure accurate modelling throughout all ranges of flange sizes used in industrial applications with accounting for external loads, pressure, temperature and bolt preload. AxiPRO is a Microsoft Windows(R) application that runs FE/Pipe in the background. Results are presented in graphical, tabular and animated three dimensional views. The methods used in AxiPRO also use nonlinear gasket properties based on additional tests at the Paulin Research Group Laboratory. An AxiPRO license is included with each FE/Pipe license.
MatPRO
MatPRO is an exhaustive database of ASME material properties that can be used with PRG and third party software products. In addition to providing material properties to PRG products, MatPRO also includes calculators for high temperature analysis, fatigue allowable comparisons and fitness for service evaluations. A MatPRO license is included with each FE/Pipe license.
MeshPRO
Provides an interface between AutoCAD and FE/Pipe. It is particularly useful when a geometry cannot be easily modeled with one of the FE/Pipe templates. MeshPRO allows Axisymmetric, Shell and Brick models to be created and modified in AutoCAD, and then analyzed in FE/Pipe. A MeshPRO license is included with each FE/Pipe license.
PlasPlot
PlasPlot is a companion utility to FE/Pipe that periodically queries a running nonlinear model and displays the current state of the analysis including the convergence trend. PlasPlot is included with FE/Pipe.
StressPlot
StressPlot is a general ASME codes stress calculation utility. StressPlot can be used to read raw nodal stress data and process the stresses to linearize through the wall of any geometry per guidelines in WRC 429. StressPlot is included with FE/Pipe.
Read more about StressPlot. http://www.paulin.com/StressPlot.aspx
FE107
FE107 is a load analysis program for openings in calculating local stresses in spherical and cylindrical shells subject to external loadings. FE107 offers a subset of the analysis capabilities of NozzlePRO with a fraction of the effort.
BOS Fluids
BOS Fluids is the engineering software package that analyzes fluid transients in pipe systems and relates this information back to the mechanical piping system transferring the fluid.
Splash
Splash is 2D Free-Surface CFD calculator that lets the user pick a predefined geometry, or allows him to define his own. The free surface fluid can be exposed to initial velocity loads, (slugs), periodic loads, (pitch and roll), or seismic loads, (transient time history analysis).
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