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ASME B31.3 Chemical Plant Petroleum Refinery Piping And Course
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Understanding the "Why?" behind the ASME piping code requirements is important when applying the regulations to gray areas of piping design. This course provides background and an historical review of the design, materials, fabrication, examination and testing requirements, as well as practical knowledge of current methods and trends in piping design and construction, within the context of the requirements and intent of ASME B31.3
SPED are related to industrial process piping design. Society of Piping Engineering and Designer
Key Benefits
The B31 course has a 26 hour duration and covers the following areas:
Piping code history, basic philosophy and organization.
Piping design criteria: design conditions; design loads (pressure, gravity, thermal, seismic, wind, vibration, thermal hydraulic, anchor movement); failure mode; primary and secondary stress categories; load categorization; allowable stresses.
Pressure design: Wall thickness calculation; area replacement, bend-wall thinning variation from normal conditions; pressure-temperature ratings.
External loads design: Flexibility; fatigue; stress intensification; combined loads; cold spring; simplified analysis methods.
Pipe support design: support types; assumptions; load combinations; variable supports; lug and attachments.
System piping, pressure relief piping, hazardous material piping, instrument piping, non-metallic Piping.
Materials, fabrication, examination, inspection and testing questions and answers.
About the Instructor
Glynn E. Woods, P.E., course director, is a Senior Piping Engineer for Technip-Coflexip. He has experience in the field of piping design, stress, supports and failure analysis, as well as piping component design, analysis and testing. For more than 18 years, he has been providing this expertise for both new and operating plants - offering field experience arriving at safe, economical piping design as well as solutions to piping problems. Mr. Woods is a member of the ASME B31.3 Chemical Plant and Petroleum Refinery Piping Committee and the ASME Mechanical Design Committee.
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