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CASTI Guidebook to ASME B31.3
Process Piping (Fifth Edition)

Printed Book:
soft cover
8.5"x11"
400 pages
$150 USD or $165 CAD

Downloadable E-book:
Adobe PDF file
4.2 MB
$150 USD or $165 CAD

Fifth Edition:
printed September 2008

Authors:
Glynn E. Woods
Roy B. Baguley

ISBN:
1-894038-90-8

The Fifth Edition of the CASTI Guidebook to ASME B31.3 - Process Piping covers the new 2006 ASME B31.3 code book that was released in 2007.

This newly updated Guidebook describes new additions and revisions to the Code rules while offering insight into the reasoning behind these changes in the Code. It provides comprehensive coverage of B31.3 Code requirements for design, analysis, fabrication, assembly, errection, inspection, examination, and testing of process piping. The detailed information on Code requirements provides clarity, even to the experienced Code user. The Guidebook also includes coverage of piping and pressure vessel code history, ASME B31.3 scope, piping fundamentals, failure modes, failure causes, supplementary information that the ASME B31.3 code does not specifically address. It offers a unique insight into the technologies associated with ASME code design, fabrication, materials, testing, and examination of process piping.

The Guidebook is filled with many practical example calculations for piping design and analysis in both US customary and Metric units.

The intent of this Guidebook is to provide the users of ASME B31.3 with a better understanding of the ASME B31.3 Code. It is written by piping code experts with long time ASME B31.3 code committee and international engineering experience. Going far beyond the literary words of the Code, the authors of this Guidebook explain specific Code paragraphs and related ASME Code Interpretations to provide guidance where a close study of the Code, on its own, may not produce a clear conclusion.

Table of Contents

Practical Example Problems
and Solutions

Practical Photographs
and 3D Graphics

About the Authors

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - History and Scope of Piping and Pressure Vessel Codes
Chapter 2 - Piping Fundamentals
Chapter 3 - Design Conditions
Chapter 4 - Piping Design
Chapter 5 - Component Design
Chapter 6 - Flexibility Analysis of Piping Systems
Chapter 7 - Piping for Category M Fluid Service
Chapter 8 - High Pressure Piping
Chapter 9 - B31.3 Listed Materials
Chapter 10 - Materials Requirements
Chapter 11 - Material Selection
Chapter 12 - Fabrication, Assembly, and Erection
Chapter 13 - Welding
Chapter 14 - Inspection and Examination
Chapter 15 - Testing
Chapter 16 - Piping Failures and Causes
Appendix 1 - AWS Specification Titles, Classification Examples, and Explanation
Appendix 2 - Engineering Data
Appendix 3 - Expansion Coefficients for Metals
Appendix 4 - Simplified Stress Calculation Methods
Appendix 5 - Pipe Size and Pressure Class for Metric Conversion
Appendix 6 - 2004 ASME B31.3 Interpretations
Subject Index
Code Paragraph Index
Interpretations Index

Practical Example Problems and Solutions

With over 40 practical example problems and solutions this CASTI Guidebook goes far beyond the literary words of the code. The following example is an excerpt of the CASTI Guidebook to ASME B31.3. You can see that the example provides detailed, easy-to-follow calculations and makes excellent use of graphical illustrations.

Practical Photographs and 3D Graphics

Practical, real-life photographs are included to show different failures, errors in the field, test equipments, and much more. This CASTI Guidebook also contains impressive 3D graphics to support explanations of code paragraphs and to guide you through the ASME Code.

Figure 2.6 Secondary stress (fatigue) failure crack.

Figure 6.17 Open discharge piping with support.

About the Authors

Glynn Woods, P.E. (Author and Instructor)

Mr. Woods is a Senior Piping Engineer with experience in piping design, stress, supports, and failure analysis, as well as piping component design, analysis and testing. For more than 30 years, he has been providing this expertise for both new and operating petrochemical and power plants using computer evaluations and field experience in arriving at safe, economical piping designs and solutions to piping problems. Mr. Woods is a member of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Committee and the ASME B31 Mechanical Design Committee.

Roy Baguley, P.Eng (Author and Instructor)

Roy Baguley, P.Eng., graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science degree in Metallurgical Engineering and a Masters degree in Metallurgical Engineering (Welding). He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta, Canada. He is also a certified CGSB technician with Level II radiographic, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, and liquid penetrant nondestructive test methods.

With more than 25 years of domestic and international experience with consulting engineers and operating companies, Mr. Baguley is now President of Metal Engineers International Inc., offering metallurgical, welding, corrosion, and nondestructive testing expertise to various industries. He is also involved with MICA Software Inc., a company developing and selling inspection and corrosion management software for the petroleum and petrochemical industries.