The lack of commentary, or historical perspective, regarding the B31.3 Code requirements for process piping design and construction is an obstacle to the designer, manufacturer, fabricator, supplier, erector, examiner, inspector, and owner who want to provide a safe and economical piping system. This intensive four day course, through the use of hundreds of examples shown and personal experiences of the instructors, demonstrates how the B31.3 Code has been correctly and incorrectly applied.

This seminar explains the principle intentions of the Code and why the Code is not a handbook. Attendees come away from this seminar with a clear understanding of how piping systems fail and what the Code requires the designer, manufacturer, fabricator, supplier, erector, examiner, inspector and owner to do to prevent such failures. The focus of the seminar is to enhance participants’ understanding and application of the B31.3 Code. Instruction is further enhanced by in-class problem solving, directly applying the rules and equations of the B31.3 Code for specific design and operating conditions to illustrate correct applications.

Course completion = 30 PDHs/3 CEUs

Each student will receive a copy of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Codebook.  Students should bring a calculator.

Registration deadline is May 21.  Register by May 8 and save $200.

INSTRUCTOR

Glynn E. Woods, P.E., Course Director, is a practicing piping engineer with experience in piping design, stress analysis, supports, piping failure analysis, as well as piping component design, analysis and testing. For more than 35 years he has been providing this piping design expertise in new and operating petrochemical facilities. The piping component design, analysis and testing experience involved assisting piping component manufacturers to gain pressure design Code compliance for their product. Mr. Woods is a member of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code Committee.