Piping and Pipeline Engineering: Design, Construction, Maintenance, Integrity, and Repair

Taking a big-picture approach, Piping and Pipeline Engineering: Design, Construction, Maintenance, Integrity, and Repair elucidates the fundamental steps to any successful piping and pipeline engineering project, whether it is routine maintenance or a new multi-million dollar project. The author explores the qualitative details, calculations, and techniques that are essential in supporting competent decisions. He pairs coverage of real world practice with the underlying technical principles in materials, design, construction, inspection, testing, and maintenance. Discover the seven essential principles that will help establish a balance between production, cost, safety, and integrity of piping systems and pipelines The book includes coverage of codes and standards, design analysis, welding and inspection, corrosion mechanisms, fitness-for-service and failure analysis, and an overview of valve selection and application. It features the technical basis of piping and pipeline code design rules for normal operating conditions and occasional loads and addresses the fundamental principles of materials, design, fabrication, testing and corrosion, and their effect on system integrity.
Table of Contents
Preface Ch. 1 Codes, Standards and Practice 1 Ch. 2 Fundamentals 34 Ch. 3 Materials 42 Ch. 4 Internal Pressure 81 Ch. 5 External Pressure 121 Ch. 6 Layout and Supports 126 Ch. 7 Flexibility and Fatigue 152 Ch. 8 Vibration 186 Ch. 9 Fluid Transients 216 Ch. 10 Wind Design 241 Ch. 11 Seismic Design and Retrofit 246 Ch. 12 Explosions 271 Ch. 13 Subsea Pipelines 287 Ch. 14 Buried Pipe 302 Ch. 15 Welding 311 Ch. 16 Examination 329 Ch. 17 Pipe Flange 349 Ch. 18 Mechanical Joints 377 Ch. 19 Leak and Pressure Test 382 Ch. 20 Degradation in Service 396 Ch. 21 Fitness-for-Service 419 Ch. 22 Maintenance, Reliability and Failure Analysis 446 Ch. 23 Repair Techniques 471 Ch. 24 Plastic Pipe 492 Ch. 25 Valves 505 App Standard Pipe Sizes 526 Index 533