Good Books-Piping
Good Books-Piping
Good Books-Piping
A comprehensive text covering all aspects of piping. Topics include materials, fluid
mechanics, flexibility, supports, corrosion, and piping applications.
PROCESS PIPING: The Complete Guide to ASME B31.3
by: Charles Becht IV
ISBN: 0791801772
Though somewhat dated, a great book on the basics of piping systems and their design.
This text includes many "hand methods," very useful for verifying today's computer-
generated results.
Fiberglass Pipe Handbook
by: Plastics Institute
ISBN: 9991353283
Title: Guidelines for the Design and Installation of Pump Piping Systems.
V. A. Carucci and J. A. Payne
Welding Research Council Bulletin 449
"Introduction to Pipe Stress Analysis " (2 volumes) by Sam Kannappan, 1992, (ISBN 0
89464 706 7), Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, 32950. Mr. Kannappan is
also a B31.3 Code Committee member. The Kannappan book shows pipe stress analysis
approaches as they are done today with the contemporary computer programs.
"The Piping Guide" by D.R. Sherwood and D.J. Whistance - ISBN 0-914-08219-1
(Syentek, PO Box 26588, San Francisco, California 94126). The "Piping Guide" is
commonly used is community colleges for teaching layout and good practice (every
piping designer should have.
Every year the Pressure Vessel and Piping (PVP)Division of ASME has a conference
which produces about 200 good papers (about 40 percent piping subjects) and these
papers are gathered into publications which are offered by ASME. You could write to
ASME and get on their mailing list for publications.
• ISBN-10 : 0071440909
• ISBN-13 : 978-0071440905
Advanced Piping Design (Process Piping Design Handbook) (v. II) (Hardcover)
~ Rutger Boterman (Author), Peter Smith (Author)
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