This essential new volume provides background information, historical perspective, and expert commentary on the ASME B31.1 Code requirements for power piping design and construction. It provides the most complete coverage of the Code that is available today and is packed with additional information useful to those responsible for the design and mechanical integrity of power piping. The author, Dr. Becht, is a long-serving member of ASME piping code committees and is the author of the highly successful book, Process Piping : The Complete Guide to ASME B31.3, also published by ASME Press and now in its third edition.
Dr. Becht explains the principal intentions of the Code, covering the content of each of the Code’s chapters. Book inserts cover special topics such as spring design, design for vibration, welding processes and bonding processes. Appendices in the book include useful information for pressure design and flexibility analysis as well as guidelines for computer flexibility analysis and design of piping systems with expansion joints. From the new designer wanting to know how to size a pipe wall thickness or design a spring to the expert piping engineer wanting to understand some nuance or intent of the Code, everyone whose career involves process piping will find this to be a valuable reference.
About the Author
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Chapter 1 : Background and General Information
Chapter 2 : Organization of B31.1
Chapter 3 : Design Conditions and Criteria
Chapter 4 : Pressure Design
Chapter 5 : Limitations on Components and Joints
Chapter 6 : Design Requirements for Specific Systems
Chapter 7 : Design for Sustained and Occasional Loads
Chapter 8 : Design Criteria for Thermal Expansion
Chapter 9 : Flexibility Analysis
Chapter 10 : Supports and Restraints
Chapter 11 : Load Limits for Attached Equipment
Chapter 12 : Requirements for Materials
Chapter 13 : Fabrication, Assembly, and Erection
Chapter 14 : Examination
Chapter 15 : Pressure Testing
Chapter 16 : Non-metallic Piping
Chapter 17 : Post-Construction
Appendix I : Properties of Pipe and Pressure Ratings of Listed Piping Components
Appendix II : Guidelines for Computer Flexibility Analysis
Appendix III : Useful Information for Flexibility Analysis
Appendix IV : A Practical Guide to Expansion Joints
Appendix V : Conversion Factors
References
Index
