What’s New in Caesar II-Version 14?

CAESAR II is the industry standard for pipe stress analysis, letting you build, assess and report on piping systems of any size or complexity in accordance to more than 35 international piping code standards with multiple editions and alternative calculations as well as many environmental and equipment guidelines. Integration with CAD design packages lets you quickly import models, reducing risk for errors and costly iteration time between CAD and Stress Analysis divisions.

Newly Added Codes and Standards

As already mentioned, support for ASME B31.12-2019 has already been added to the new software. Additionally, most of the codes are updated to have their latest available editions.

ASME B31.12 – 2019 Hydrogen Piping and Pipelines, including Part IP Industrial Piping and Part PL Pipelines. The allowable stress auxiliary data tab has been updated to support this new code addition. The configuration editor is updated to use alternative rules for stress range evaluation for supporting ASME B31.12 Appendix-B.

Updates in Material and Content Database

As the major code changes in Caesar II Version 14 are already stated, let’s learn the other changes that the software release in 2024 will provide:

• Caesar II Version 14 is further enriched with the following additions:
• Added 119 material records for B31.12-2019 into the material database. The physical property data is taken from ASME B31.3-2018 and ASME BPVC Section II Part D-2021. While the allowable stress data is taken from ASME B31.12-2019
• Added fifth working range quadruple springs to the ANVIL hanger tables. Also added spring sizes 000 and 00 for the B-268 springs.
• Added the fourth and fifth size springs to the PSSI Group hanger tables.
• Added hanger tables for Rilco Manufacturing pipe supports.

Improvements in Static and Dynamic Analysis

The software version 14 has enhanced its capabilities to consider the thermal bowing load when defining a Thermal Bowing Delta Temperature and define an operating temperature that is the same as or close to the Ambient Temperature. A new technical discussion for thermal bowing is also added to help explain the condition thoroughly.