Piping Stress Analysis Course

Target Audience:

This program is targeting :

• Industrial, Commercial, Institutional
• Mechanical Engineers Mechanical Maintenance Tradespeople & Technicians
• Instrumentation And Control Engineers

Language: English/Arabic 

Piping Stress Analysis Course Content:

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO PIPING ENGINEERING

• Introduction to Piping Engineering
• Understanding various piping components
• Typical EPC organogram
• Major duties, responsibilities & deliverables of piping discipline
• Piping interface with other disciplines (Input & outputs)

MODULE 2: MORE ABOUT PIPING SYSTEMS

• What is a piping system?
• What is pipe stress analysis?
• Why is a piping stress analysis required?
• Challenges of piping stress analysis

MODULE 3: BASICS OF STRENGTH OF MATERIALS

• Stress and strain
• Engineering stress/strain versus true stress/strain
• The ductile material stress-strain relationship
• Poisson’s ratio
• Modulus of elasticity
• Linear coefficient of thermal expansion
• Stresses due to forces and moments
• Normal and shear stresses over inclined planes
• Modes of failures

MODULE 4: ASME B31 PIPING DESIGN CODES

• Introduction to design codes
• Code sections
• Overview and specifications of piping codes

MODULE 5: PIPING LOADS AND PIPING STRESSES

• Primary loads in piping systems
• Secondary loads in piping systems
• Principal stresses in piping systems
• Pipe stresses due to pressure
• Pipe stresses owing to forces and moments
• Combined loads in piping systems
• Total stresses in piping systems
• Failure theories
• Stress categories

MODULE 6: FLEXIBILITY ANALYSIS AND STRESS LIMITS

• Basics of thermal stress
• Techniques to mitigate thermal stresses in piping systems
• When is formal flexibility analysis required?
• Stress intensification factors and flexibility factors
• Allowable thermal stress range and piping codes
• Displacement stress range and piping codes
• Sustained stress limits and piping codes
• Occasional stress limits and piping codes

MODULE 7: PIPING SUPPORTS AND RESTRAINTS

• Supports classifications
• Selection of pipe support locations
• MSS pipe hangers and supports standards

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