Companion Guide to the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code

ISBN: 9780791802700

出版年: 2008-1

页数: 800

定价: $ 343.52

内容简介

Organized to provide the technical professional with ready access to practical solutions, this revised, three-volume, 2,000-page third edition brings to life essential ASME codes with authoritative commentary, examples, explanatory text, tables, graphics, references, and annotated bibliographic notes. This new edition has been fully updated to the 2007 Code, except where specifically noted in the text. Find useful examinations of special topics including rules for accreditation and certification; perspective 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. While increasing your proficiency in Code application, you broaden your perspective with high-level discussions of the codes' underlying rationale, current trends, and long-term issues for piping and pressure-technology professionals. You prepare for the future with proactive analysis of security issues, computer methods and applications, and other topical concerns.