I personally went through Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Ike during my career living in the Gulf Coast. Restarting our plants after these storms was challenging, home life was miserable without power for three weeks and traveling over 100 miles north to find gasoline, food and water for family and neighbors was time consuming and hazardous. […]
Making A Super Heavy Lift? Here’s What You Need To Know If you are making a single super lift or a series of super lifts there will be a tremendous number of documents created during the planning stages. In addition to the original documents there will be numerous revisions as the fine tuning of the […]
Below we review the meaning of the six Class 1 piping stress equations in ASME III NB-3650, Class 1. The nomenclature is found in NB-3650. Two things must be kept in mind when applying these Class 1 piping equations: All the stresses are elastically calculated, i.e. the calculation model considers the material to be such […]
The Pre-1955 Era Until 1955, the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes, and the ASME B31 Pressure Piping code provided rules of good design practice with quantitative criteria for pressure design. For example, quoting from ASME VIII Rules for the Construction of Unfired Pressure Vessels Section VIII A. S. M. E. Boiler Construction Code, 1927: […]
