Description

ASME B31.3 Process Piping Design is a seminar dedicated to ASME B31.3 Process Piping requirements for a safely designed process piping systems.

ASME B31.3 Process Piping Design covers topics such as:

Piping failure modes
- Allowable stresses for different types of stresses
- Types of pressure technology stress
- Effective sustained stress intensity
- "Design by Analysis" codes (Discuss reference paper)
- Effective displacement (flexibility) stress intensity
History of Piping Codes
- "Design by Rule" codes
- Types of ASME codes
- Computer Aided Analysis
- History of the B31 Code of Pressure Piping
Piping design criteria
- Allowable stress basis (design criteria)
- Code qualification (stresses, loads, and mitigation)
- Allowable internal pressure stress
- Time dependent allowable stresses
- Pressure stress limitations
- Discussion of B31.1 Appendix A Allowable stresses
- Allowable sustained and occasional stress
- Allowable variations from design conditions
- Displacement (cyclic)allowable stresses
- Allowable test stresses
- Load rating (clamps, compression fittings)
- Cumulative Damages
- Mitigation of damaging loads
Piping design conditions
- Design Pressure
- Required service information
- Weight & Thermal effects
- Design temperature
- Environmental loads
Pressure design of piping components
- Standard joints
- Standard Components
- Components to accommodate expansion
- Non- Standard Components (Reference Paper)
Pressure Design of Straight Pipe
- Determining Pipe Size
- Qualification of piping components and systems
- Pressure design allowances
- Discuss Code pressure design (Reference Paper)
- Special Piping (using inside diameter equation)
Providing adequate piping flexibility
- Acceptance criteria for types of stress
- Fatigue terminology
- Carbon and stainless-steel fatigue curves
- Stress range
- Fatigue curves for different components
- High cycle fatigue
- Creep-fatigues interaction
- Stress intensification factor
- Cold spring
Guarding against piping collapse
- Design equation
- Sustained load (system) stresses
- Piping code geometries
- Criticism of the design equation
- Axial stresses
- Pressure terms and section moduli
- Occasional load equation
- Where to determine stresses
- 1 - 2020 equations
Simplified piping analysis and layout
- Methods of performing flexibility analyses
- Early piping analysis
- Code screening method
- Chart methods
- Comparison of layouts
- Guided cantilever
- Allowable support reactions
- Local overstrain
Stress Intensification factors
- J stress intensification tables
- J-2017
Pipe support design methods
- Allowable stresses
- Pipe used as a support
- Load rating
- Standard pipe supports
- Special (proprietary) supports
- Structural supports
- Variable spring design
- Example of a dummy leg design
- Guidelines for pipe supports
- Constant spring design
Pipe support design
- Loads on pipe supporting elements
- Pipe support stress types
- Support types
Piping Data
- Socket welding dimensions
- Piping sizes and schedule dimensions
- Simplified layout charts
Requirements for specific piping systems
- Non-boiler external piping