IngSoft - Pipe Structural Analysis Software FEM / FEA Calculations

The modular business solution for your pipe statics

Whether for drinking water or wastewater, as an open channel or a pressure pipe, installed in the trench or trenchless, new installation or renovation: IngSoft EasyPipe is the solution for the structural calculation of your buried pipes.

Latest version: 2.10.0.1 dated 2023-03-14

We have divided the input screen into four divisions: Navigation, Main window, Results and Help. You will find your way "easily" around the clear overview from the first program start.

Our statics software guides you as the user through the navigation tree. In the Main window, you will make the entries, whose validity will be immediately checked by IngSoft EasyPipe.

The integrated Help section with sketches responds in a context-sensitive manner to the position of the cursor. This always gives you helpful hints.

In the lower part of the application window, IngSoft EasyPipe displays a Preview of the most important results. Color-coded fields immediately indicate the fulfilled verifications to you.

The printout of the pipe statics offers the three levels short, medium and long: Thus, you meet the demands of all auditors and clients.

Our calculation program for pipe statics is structured in modules.

• In any case, you need the calculation core, which contains the basic functions. We offer this as a Standard Edition and a Professional Edition.
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• The software organises sets of rules in calculation modules that you can combine as desired.
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• Our cross-module extensions (optional) serve special requirements.
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• With numerous language versions, you are well positioned internationally.
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The editions differ in the range of functions. Your requirements determine the choice of an edition. An upgrade to the more comprehensive edition is possible at any time.

Calculation module A 161 / GW 312 for Jacking Pipes

The calculation module A 161 is used for the static calculation of Jacking Pipes and is based on the 2nd edition of worksheet DWA-A 161 / DVGW GW 312, March 2014 edition. This worksheet is the first set of rules to contain regulations for the static calculation of pipes with partial safety factors in accordance with the Eurocode (semi-probabilistic concept).

The contents of the DWA-A 161 worksheet and the DVGW GW 312 worksheet are the same. Specifically, the programme for pipe statics takes into account

• DWA-A 161 / DVGW GW 312 2014 edition
• Corrections to DWA-A 161 / DVGW GW 312 in May 2017
• Corrections to DWA-A 161 / DVGW GW 312 in October 2017
• Technical Note 4-2019 of DB Netz AG (Special regulations for steel press-through pipes for railway crossings)
• Corrections to DWA-A 161 / DVGW GW 312 in September 2020 (material parameters, via worksheet DWA-A 127-10)

This allows you to examine all jacking methods (shield jacking, flush drilling, HDD, burst lining, etc.) of the regulations on straight and curved routes or as a curved drive.

Multi-layer Pressure Transfer Rings (PTR) in the preliminary design and CSV import of PTR tests are available. Jacking in loose rock and bedrock or mixed soils / transition area can be investigated. The calculation module determines the jacking force iteratively for the construction condition and performs the interaction check.

All required verifications for the operating condition are automatically performed in parallel, if necessary, e.g.

• Fatigue check
• Deformation verification
• Proof of elongations
• Proof of stability

Load-independent boundary conditions such as minimum reinforcement, sectional forces and wall thickness can be checked elegantly with IngSoft EasyPipe.