EN 13480 - Metallic Industrial Piping Design Software
NextGen includes a dedicated module for the design and verification of metallic industrial piping according to the European standard EN 13480.
The software covers the by-formulae design approach defined in EN 13480-3, supporting both internal and external pressure calculations. With NextGen, you can verify straight pipes, elbows, mitre bends, reducers, dished ends, flat ends, flanges, branch connections and expansion joints, generating detailed calculation reports ready for approval.
EN 13480-3 Chapter 6 — Design under internal pressure
| Paragraph |
Description |
| 6.1 |
Straight pipes |
| 6.2 |
Pipe bends and elbows |
| 6.3 |
Mitre bends |
| 6.4 |
Reducers (conical shells, junctions, offset and special forged reducers) |
| 6.5 |
Flexible piping components (expansion joints) |
| 6.6 |
Bolted flange connections (integral, loose, slip-on, lap-joint, welding neck, long welding neck, reverse and rectangular flanges) |
EN 13480-3 Chapter 7 — Design of ends under internal pressure
| Paragraph |
Description |
| 7.1 |
Dished ends (hemispherical, torispherical and ellipsoidal) |
| 7.2 |
Circular flat ends (welded and bolted) |
EN 13480-3 Chapter 8 — Openings and branch connections
| Paragraph |
Description |
| 8.1–8.5 |
Openings and branch connections (isolated and adjacent openings, reinforced and unreinforced, reinforcing pads, elliptical openings, oblique branches) |
EN 13480-3 Chapter 9 — Design under external pressure
| Paragraph |
Description |
| 9.3 |
Cylindrical pipes, elbows and mitre bends |
| 9.4 |
Reducers (conical shells) |
| 9.5 |
Dished ends (hemispherical, torispherical and ellipsoidal) |
Additional verifications
When designing piping according to EN 13480, NextGen also supports the following verifications based on additional international standards:
- Flange verification according to EN 1591-1
- Standard flanges verification according to EN 1092-1 and EN 1759-1
- Expansion joints verification according to EJMA