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Process Piping Materials, Fabrication, Examination & Testing
A 5 Day Master Class from ASME International Expert
The 5 day Master Class from an ASME International Expert explains how piping systems fail and what the ASME Code requires the designer, manufacturer, fabricator, supplier, erector, examiner, inspector and owner to do to prevent failure. Using hundreds of real-world examples as well as the personal experiences of the instructors, the course demonstrates how the ASME B31.3 Code has been both correctly and incorrectly applied. Lessons are enhanced by actual in-class problem solving, directly applying the rules and equations of the ASME B31.3 Code for specific design and operating conditions to illustrate correct applications.
Who should Attend?
This Master Class is for engineers, technicians and draftsmen who are involved in the feasibility, design, fabrication, installation, operation, maintenance, testing and inspection of process piping.
Learning Outcomes
- What issues to take into consideration when designing process piping
- Pressure design of piping and piping components
- How to analyse piping flexibility and gauge the limitations of piping and piping components
- Pipe supports, leak testing, piping failures and their causes
Course Outline
introduction
- History of Codes
- Scope
- Definitions
- Principle Axis & Stress
- Failure Theories
- Stress Categories
- Basis for Allowable Stress
Pressure Design of Piping
- Design conditions
- Design pressure & temperature
- Considerations of design
- Installed temperature
- Vibration
- Water Hammer
- Wall thickness
- Components
Components
- elbows, & bends
- branch connections
- outlet headers
- WYE fittings
- Outlet Header
- Block Pattern WYE Fittings
- Closures
- Flanges
- Blind Flanges
- Blanks
- Expansion Joints
Fatigue Analysis of Piping Systems
- Required Analysis
- Allowable Stress Range
- Displacement Stress Range,
- Average Axial Stress
- Bending Stress
- Torsional Stress
- Stress Intensification Factor
- Displacement Stresses of Dissimilar
- Welded Pipe Joints
- Sustained Load Stress
- Occasional Load
- Wind
- Earthquake
- Safety Relief Valve Set Pressure
- Safety Relief Valve Discharge
- Means of Increasing Flexibility
Piping Supports
- Pipe Supports
- Pipe Support Span
- Variable Spring Hangers
- Pipe Support Trunnions
- Support of Mechanical Induced Vibration Pipe
- Pipe Vibration Induced by Wind
- Acoustic Resonance in Piping Systems
- Bearing Stress at Pipe Support
Limitations on Piping and Components
- Fluid Categories
- Severe Cyclic Conditions
Leak Test
- Hydrostatic Leak Test
- Pneumatic Leak Test
- Stored Energy in a Pneumatic Tested Piping System
- Alternate Leak Test
- Sensitive Leak Test
- Initial Service Leak Test
Piping Failures and their Causes
- Failure Modes
- Failure Causes
- Operational
- Metallurgical
- Installation
- Design
Materials Fabrication, Examination and Testing
- Materials selection and limitations
- Fabrication rules and their bases
- Relationship between B31.3 design and the fabrication & examination requirements
- Welding qualification requirements
- Inspection, examination, and testing requirements
Facilitator Information
Glynn E. Woods, P.E., Course Director, is a practicing piping engineer with experience in piping design, stress analysis, supports, piping failure analysis, as well as piping component design, analysis and testing. For more than 35 years he has been providing this piping design expertise in new and operating petrochemical facilities. The piping component design, analysis and testing experience involved assisting piping component manufacturers to gain pressure design Code compliance for their product. Mr. Woods is a member of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code Committee.
Philip D. Flenner, P.E., is a senior welding consultant and founding member of Flenner Engineering Services, LLC. He has over 30 years of experience in welding qualifications and training, engineering training, power plant repair methods, quality control and performance assessment, nuclear dry fuel storage, and codes and standards.
He is a member of the ASME B31 Code for Pressure Piping Main Committee, the B31.1 Power Piping Section Committee, and the ASME Section IX Committee on Welding and Brazing Qualifications as well as other national codes and standards committees.