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Underground Supported Pipelines
Soft soil conditions often require also for underground pipelines specific piled support constructions.
Expert Design Systems
Expert Design Systems B.V. (EDS) is the company behind PLE Software and works in close collaboration with R+K Consulting Engineers. With a track record spanning several decades, EDS is grounded in deep domain knowledge of pipeline engineering and practical application experience.
Description and History
Expert Design Systems B.V. (EDS) is an independent entity that manages and develops professional pipeline engineering software. The company works in close collaboration with R+K Consulting Engineers and is part of the BT Engineering Group.
This organisational structure ensures long-term support and continuity for PLE users, while also allowing them to benefit from a broader network of pipeline engineering experts and project experience.
The team behind EDS and PLE has decades of experience in practical pipeline mechanics, with particular expertise in the behaviour of pipelines in soft delta soils, offshore conditions, and under complex operational loads.
The close partnership between EDS, R+K Consulting Engineers, and BT Engineering Group ensures that PLE users get more than just calculations — they get access to a full spectrum of pipeline engineering knowledge and support.
Our expertise
Workfields
Pipeline engineering solutions across a wide range of industries and applications.
Medium – Chemical
When transporting certain chemicals through a pipeline, specialised coatings may be required. These coatings and their key parameters can be modeled in PLE to assess their integrity.
Nuclear Plants
Nucleair pipeline conditions characterised by high pressures and large temperature ranges with ultimate safety levels.
Underground Pipeline Schemes
PLE is the tool to assess the stress strain and ovalisation of pipeline schemes with Tees, branches, valves and all kinds of appendages.
Earthquake and Seismic Assessments
Static and dynamic loadings, such as earth quakes and seismic vibrations and displacements.
Especially the combination of dynamic loading and the pipe soil interaction under large displacements can be perfectly assessed in elastic and plastic material behaviour modes by PLE.
Offshore Risers
Pipes connected to offshore risers can include both buried and exposed sections, and are subject to various types of loads, such as waves and currents. PLE is specialised software designed to analyse and combine different loading conditions, making it ideal for offshore riser assessments.
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