Hot off the ASME Presses: Three new engineering volumes now available

The latest offering from ASME Press includes three new books that will be welcome additions in any engineer's library.

Charles Becht IV's "Process Piping: The Complete Guide to ASME B31.3, Second Edition" is fully updated for the 2004 Edition of the ASME B31.3 Code.

This second edition provides background information, historical perspective and expert commentary on the ASME B31.3 Code requirements for process piping design and construction.

The 2004 edition of ASME B31.3 contains significant technical changes, such as addition of weld joint strength reduction factors in the creep regime, alternative flexibility analysis rules, alternative rules for occasional loads at elevated temperatures, and changes to the f factors (for higher and lower cycles), among others. The 280-page book describes these new rules and the thinking behind them.

Becht, who is vice chairman of the ASME B31.3, Process Piping Code committee, explains the principal intentions of the code, covering the content of each of the code's chapters. Book inserts cover special topics, such as calculation of refractory lined pipe wall temperature, spring design, design for vibration, welding processes, bonding processes and expansion joint pressure thrust.

The hardcover book, Order No. 802175, lists for $80; it's $64 for ASME members.

As a professional reference in nanotechnology, "The Handbook of Nanotechnology" series offers readers a combination of tutorial material and review of the state of the art of this technology.

This initial, 575-page volume, which was edited by Akhlesh Lakhtakia, focuses on modeling and simulation at the nanoscale. The eight substantive chapters of this volume — entitled Nanometer Structures: Theory, Modeling and Simulation — cover nanostructured thin films, photonic bandgap structures, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, atomistic techniques, nanomechanics, nanofluidics and quantum information processing.

Modeling and simulation research on these topics has acquired a sufficient degree of maturity to merit inclusion. While the intent is to serve as a reference source for expert researchers, there is sufficient content for novice researchers as well. The level of presentation in each chapter assumes a fundamental background at the level of an engineering or science graduate.

"The Handbook of Nanotechnology," Order No. 802159, lists for $88; $70 for ASME members. It is co-published with SPIE Press and Professional Engineering Publishing, UK.

Responding to concerns about global warming, carbon dioxide emissions, and the political instability that threatens the U.S. oil supply, "Industrial Energy Systems," by Richard E. Putman, enables management, systems analysts and performance engineers to develop and apply an operating strategy for the online optimization and control of energy systems in industrial plants.

The book, which will be available this month, provides proven techniques for analysis that can guide equipment selection and flowsheet adjustments to reduce plant energy consumption without affecting the productive capacity of the plant.

Originating in the 1970s and 1980s, when high energy costs and the OPEC crises fostered energy conservation, these techniques have been applied successfully in many industries in the United States, as well as in several industrialized countries in the Middle and Far East.

This is the second ASME Press book by Richard E. Putman, who became an ASME Fellow in 2002. He completed this manuscript a few months before his death in 2003.

The 316-page hardcover book, Order No. 802086, lists for $110; $88 for members.

For more details or to order visit www.asme.org/catalog.

 

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