An up-to-date and practical reference book on piping engineering and stress analysis, this book emphasizes three main concepts: using engineering common sense to foresee a potential piping stress problem, performing the stress analysis to confirm the problem, and lastly, optimizing the design to solve the problem. Systematically, the book proceeds from basic piping flexibility analyses, spring hanger selections, and expansion joint applications, to vibration stress evaluations and general dynamic analyses. Emphasis is placed on the interface with connecting equipment such as vessels, tanks, heaters, turbines, pumps and compressors. Chapters dealing with discontinuity stresses, special thermal problems and cross-country pipelines are also included.
The book is ideal for piping engineers, piping designers, plant engineers, and mechanical engineers working in the power, petroleum refining, chemical, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries. It will also serve as a reference for engineers working in building and transportation services. It can be used as an advance text for graduate students in these fields.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Nomenclature
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Strength of Materials Basics
Chapter 3 : Thermal Expansion and Piping Flexibility
Chapter 4 : Code Stress Requirements
Chapter 5 : Discontinuity Stresses
Chapter 6 : Pipe Supports and Restraints
Chapter 7 : Flexible Connections
Chapter 8 : Interface with Stationary Equipment
Chapter 9 : Interface with Rotating Equipment
Chapter 10 : Transportation Pipeline and Buried Piping
Chapter 11 : Special Thermal Problems
Chapter 12 : Dynamics Analysis - Part 1 : SDOF Systems and Basics
Chapter 13 : Dynamics Analysis - Part 2 : MDOF Systems and Applications
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Index
