Companion Guide to the Asme Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes Volume 1: Criteria and Commentary on Select Aspects of the Boiler & Pressure Vessel and Piping Codes, 5th Edition

This fully updated and revised fifth edition of the classic reference work addresses in 40 chapters the ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel & Piping Codes and Standards. In this entirely updated publication, experts discuss several ongoing issues up to and beyond the 2015 Code edition, including topics pertinent to 2017 Code edition. With both entirely new and extensively rewritten chapters, the Code expert contributors consider the use of this publication with regard to the changes leading to the 2017 B&PV Code. This edition is available in a convenient two-volume format that focuses on all twelve sections of the ASME Code, and has two additional chapters covering the foreseeable new trends of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Codes. Chapters are comprehensively covered for this edition by 51 ASME B&PV Code experts, whose biographical data is included within the two volumes. An easy and quick to understand introduction in the front matter of each of the volumes succinctly explains what is elaborated in nearly 2000 pages of this two-volume publication. Another feature of this publication is that all users of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code can benefit from the comprehensive index of 8000 individual Code-related items. This fully updated and revised fifth edition of this classic reference work is current to the latest ASME BPV Code release. It is available in a convenient two-volume format that focuses on all twelve sections of the ASME Code, as well as relevant piping codes. Several chapters have new authors and are entirely new, while others have been extensively re-written for this edition.