ASME B31.3 Process Piping Design

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

Key Topics

• 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