What’s new
Recent changes, newest first. The finite-element modules are in early access and under independent verification.
2026-10-16
A new home page, notes for every module, and a live check
- Each module has a product name and a picture, and the tools sit under the FEXLA name.
- Method notes for every module, written from what the calculation does, with a worked number in each.
- Try a WRC 537 nozzle check on the home page, with no sign-in, and slide through a sample report.
- A quick-reference page of the formulas, stress limits and standards behind the calculators.
- Building a lug or agitator model in the FEA tool now asks its question on the page and then opens the model.
2026-10-15
Pipe Atlas grows
- Large-diameter flanges (ASME B16.47) and B16.5 facings, with the raised face diameter.
- B16.5 pressure-temperature ratings, with interpolation between temperatures.
- Gaskets: spiral wound, metal jacketed and ring-joint (B16.20), and non-metallic flat rings (B16.21).
- Rows that could not be fully cross-checked are marked on the page.
2026-10-13
More in the finite-element tools (early access)
- A rectangular box and plug header module to ASME VIII-1 Appendix 13, with a shell-model cross-check.
- An elastic-plastic limit-load check to ASME VIII-2 5.2.3.
- Agitator nozzle: a gusset option, and the flange as the load point with its face deflection recorded.
- Tailing lug on a base ring, a compression ring above, and two offset lugs.
2026-10-12
A rebuilt report
- The calculation report follows good finite-element reporting practice: inputs, checks and figures in one document.
- The site and the tools were restyled.