By Charles IV Becht

This crucial new quantity offers historical past info, old standpoint, and professional remark at the ASME B31.1 Code requisites for strength piping layout and building. It presents the main entire assurance of the Code that's on hand at the present time and is full of more information worthwhile to these accountable for the layout and mechanical integrity of strength piping. the writer, Dr. Becht, is a long-serving member of ASME piping code committees and is the writer of the hugely profitable e-book, strategy Piping: the total consultant to ASME B31.3, additionally released by means of ASME Press and now in its 3rd version. Dr. Becht explains the crucial intentions of the Code, protecting the content material of every of the Code's chapters. booklet inserts hide specific issues reminiscent of spring layout, layout for vibration, welding procedures and bonding approaches. Appendices within the publication contain helpful details for strain layout and adaptability research in addition to instructions for computing device flexibility research and layout of piping platforms with growth joints. From the recent fashion designer desirous to understand how to dimension a pipe wall thickness or layout a spring to the specialist piping engineer desirous to comprehend a few nuance or rationale of the Code, every body whose profession includes technique piping will locate this to be a important reference

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6 or the material specification, as applicable. It is not used when considering the allowable stress for permissible variations, as provided in para. 4, as such loads have short durations. Equation (15) for evaluating stress due to sustained loads does not include weld joint strength reduction factors indicating that their use is not required; although para. 7 indicates that it is up to the designer. 2). Use of longitudinally (or spiral) welded materials in the creep range is not permitted if they are not listed in the table.

Remarkably, the deviation of the Boardman equation from the Lame equation is less than 1% for D/t ratios greater than 5:1. Thus, the Boardman equation can be directly substituted for the more complex Lame equation. 2(A). Use of this equation to calculate y results in Eq. (7) matching the Lame equation for heavy wall pipe as well. d DO + d The factor y depends on temperature. At elevated temperatures, when creep effects become significant, creep leads to a more even distribution of stress across the pipe wall thickness.

9 PRESSURE DESIGN OF MITERS Miter joints and miter bends are covered by para. 3. Miters in a miter bend are either widely spaced or closely spaced. 1 Table D-1. If the following equation is satisfied, the miter is closely spaced; otherwise, it is widely spaced. 10; the axes are the extension of the line of miter cuts to where they intercept) If the miters are widely spaced and the half-angle satisfies the following equation (with q in degrees), no further consideration is required. The miter cut is simply considered to be equivalent to a girth butt-welded joint.

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