Power Piping: The Complete Guide to the ASME B31.1

This essential new volume provides background information, historical perspective, and expert commentary on the ASME B31.1 Code requirements for power piping design and construction. It provides the most complete coverage of the Code that is available today and is packed with additional information useful to those responsible for the design and mechanical integrity of power piping. The author, Dr. Becht, is a long-serving member of ASME piping code committees and is the author of the highly successful book, Process Piping: The Complete Guide to ASME B31.3, also published by ASME Press and now in its third edition. Dr. Becht explains the principal intentions of the Code, covering the content of each of the Code's chapters. Book inserts cover special topics such as spring design, design for vibration, welding processes and bonding processes. Appendices in the book include useful information for pressure design and flexibility analysis as well as guidelines for computer flexibility analysis and design of piping systems with expansion joints. From the new designer wanting to know how to size a pipe wall thickness or design a spring to the expert piping engineer wanting to understand some nuance or intent of the Code, everyone whose career involves process piping will find this to be a valuable reference Contents 6 About the Author 4 List of Figures 10 List of Tables 12 CHAPTER 01 14 CHAPTER 02 26 CHAPTER 03 28 CHAPTER 04 36 CHAPTER 05 58 CHAPTER 06 64 CHAPTER 07 68 CHAPTER 08 76 CHAPTER 09 84 CHAPTER 10 96 CHAPTER 11 108 CHAPTER 12 110 CHAPTER 13 114 CHAPTER 14 132 CHAPTER 15 138 CHAPTER 16 142 CHAPTER 17 154 APPENDIX I 158 APPENDIX II 178 APPENDIX III 182 APPENDIX IV 217 APPENDIX V 243 References 250 Index 256