Companion Guide to Boiler and PV Code coming in March

Jack Raplee
ASME NEWS

Scheduled for release next month, the Companion Guide to the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code is a two-volume, 1,400-page guide to the ASME Code.

With contributions by 36 experts in the Code's preparation and use, this set, edited by K.R. Rao, serves as a criteria document to the latest editions of the B31.1 and B31.3 Piping Codes and presents a summary of specific aspects of interest to users.

The set also features a preface co-written by K.R. Rao and Robert E. Nickell, past president of ASME. In it, they write, "This book should be considered a comprehensive guide for ASME B&PV Code Sections I through XI, B3.1 and B31.3 Piping Codes."

The contributors address all sections of these codes and provide examples, explanatory text, graphics, references and annotated bibliography.

In addition, contributors discuss rules for accreditation and certification; perspectives on cyclic, impact and dynamic loads; functionality and operability criteria; fluids; pipe vibration; stress intensification factors, stress indices and flexibility factors; Code design and evaluation for cyclic loading, as well as bolted-flange joints and connections.

While the books contain a practical understanding of these Codes, the history of their establishment can be found there as well.

In the preface, Rao and Nickell write, "A unique aspect of the chapters related to the Codes is the treatment of the origins and the historical background unraveling the original intent of the writers of the criteria of the Codes and Standards. Thus, the current users of these Codes and Standards can intelligently apply their engineering knowledge and judgement in their use of them."

The Companion Guide to ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code is available in hardcover. The cost for each volume sold separately is $156 for ASME members and $195 for nonmembers. The two-volume set is $280 for ASME members and $350 for nonmembers.

For more information, contact ASME Press editor Mary Grace Stefanchik at (212) 591-7962 or by e-mail: stefanchikm@asme. org. To order online, visit: www. asme.org/boilercode/book2. html. To order by phone, call (800) 843-2763.

 

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