"Process Piping: The Complete Guide to Asme B31.3" by Charles Becht IV (Repost)

This book provides background information, historical perspective, and expert commentary on the ASME B31.3 Code requirements for process piping design and construction. It provides the most complete coverage of the Code that is available today and is packed with additional information useful to those responsible for the design and mechanical integrity of process piping.

The author 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..
Appendices in the book include useful information for pressure design and flexibility analysis as well as guidelines for computer flexibility analysis and design of piping systems with expansion joints.

CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Background and General Information
2: Organization of ASME B31.3
3: Design Conditions and Criteria
4: Pressure Design
5: Limitations on Components and Joints
6: Design for Sustained and Occasional Loads
7: Design Criteria for Thermal Stress
8: Flexibility Analysis
9: Supports
10: Load Limits for Attached Equipment
11: Requirements for Materials
12: Fabrication, Assembly, and Erection
13: Examination
14: Pressure Testing
15: Nonmetallic Piping
16: Category M Piping
17: High-Pressure Piping
18: Bellows Expansion Joints
Appendix I: Useful Information for Pressure Design
Appendix II: Guidelines for Computer Flexibility Analysis
Appendix III: Useful Information for Flexibility Analysis
Appendix IV: Expansion Joint Guide
Appendix V: Conversion Factors
References
Index