Revised Boiler Code companion guide now available

Nearly 80 pressure vessel and piping experts collaborated on the newly revised "Companion Guide to the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Second Edition," a three-volume collection that will help you gain insight into the code through compelling commentary, graphics, and notes.

This new edition of the companion guide, now available from ASME Press, has been fully updated to the current 2004 Code, except as noted in the text. The 2,000-page guide is a tool you can use to strengthen your understanding of code application through high-level discussions of the codes' underlying rationale, current trends, and long-term issues for piping and pressure-technology professionals.

With insight from the 78 contributors — all possessing professional expertise in the full range of pressure vessel and piping technologies — the handbook will provide answers to questions about the 12 sections of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, as well as the B31.1 and B31.3 piping codes.

The guide also examines a number of special topics, including 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; and bolted-flange joints and connections.

Volume one comprises five parts covering power boilers (Code Sections I and VII), materials and specifications (Code Section II), rules for construction of nuclear power plant components (Code Section III, Divisions 1, 2, and 3), power piping (B31.1 Code), process piping (B31.3 Code), and heating boilers (Code Sections IV and VI).

The second volume of the guidebook is split into six sections that examine nondestructive examination (Code Section V); pressure vessels (Code Section VII, Divisions 1, 2, and 3); welding and brazing qualifications (Code Section IX); fiber-reinforced plastic pressure vessels (Code Section X); rules for inservice inspection of nuclear power plant components (Code Section XI); and special topics of interest to ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code users and practicing engineers.

Volume three is organized into three segments: Current Issues of B&PV Codes & Standards, International Codes & Standards Related to ASME B&PV Codes, and Ongoing Issues of Public Safety. This volume also addresses the new ASME Section XII Transport Code, which was not included in the earlier edition.

Each volume is available to ASME members for $180. Nonmembers can purchase each volume of the guide for $225. All three volumes of the companion guide can be purchased together at a special discount price: $440 for members, $550 for nonmembers.

ASME Press also recently released "The Guidebook for the Design of ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessels, Third Edition." The cost for this book is $64 for ASME members, $80 for nonmembers.

For more information on these and other ASME Press publications, visit http://catalog.asme.org/books/PrintBook/
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