Introduction to Pipe Stress Engineering: Fundamentals 1

1. Welcome to the course

2. Your instructors

3. How to use this course

4. Personal Certificate requirements

1. Definition

• What is a Piping Stress Analysis?

2. Back to basics. 

• Force and Moment

• Stress

  • Stress-strain curve

• Most common types of piping stresses.

  • Hoop stress

  • Axial stress

  • Bending stress

  • Torsional stress

  • Fatigue (peak stress)

• Piping loads classification

  • Primary Loads: Death weight, internal pressure, spring forces. 

  • Secondary Loads: Thermal expansion and contraction, displacement loads due to sagging and hogging, match-up tolerances, settlement, vibration, and others

  • Occasional Loads: Wind, earthquake, ice and snow, relief valves discharge, fluid hammer and others

  • Dynamic Loads. To be covered in another course

  • Rewriting piping stress analysis definition.

3. Understanding different types of stress analysis:

• Piping vs Pipelines.

• Aboveground vs Underground.

• Onshore vs Offshore.

• Static vs Dynamic.

4. Piping Stress Analysis Codes and standards.

• Understanding the role and scope of piping codes

• ASME B31.3, ASME B31.4, ASME B31.8 & BS EN 13480 on the spot.

  • On-shore Piping. Aboveground piping arrangements interconnecting two or more pieces of equipment, generally covered in ASME B31.1, B31.3 & BS EN 13480 codes.

  • Off-shore Piping. Piping arrangements located in marine structures and vessels such as fixed structures and floating offshore production installations; generally covered by B31.3 & ISO 10418 codes.

  • Onshore pipeline. An underground series of connected pipes used to transport oil and gas, covered under ASME B31, B31.8 & BS EN 14161 codes.

  • Offshore pipelines. Subsea pipes used to transport oil and gas, covered by DNV-OS-F101 standard, API RP 1111 & BS EN 14161 codes.

• Other important international and local piping codes

• Centrifugal Pumps (API-610)

  • Positive Displacement Pumps (API-674)

  • Centrifugal Compressors (API-617 / NEMA SM23)

  • Reciprocating Compressors (API-618)

  • Steam Turbines (API-611)

  • Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers (API-660)

  • Plate Heat Exchangers (API-662)

  • Air cooled Heat Exchangers (API-661)

  • Hairpin Heat Exchangers (API-663)

  • Flare Stacks (API-537)

  • Fired Heaters (API-560)

  • Welded Storage Tanks (API-650)

  • ASME Vessels and Columns (ASME BPVC SECTION VIII)

• Onshore pipelines equipment codes

  • Manifolds

  • Sectioning Valves

  • Pig-traps

  • Trust blocks

  • Anchor Blocks

• Offshore pipelines equipment codes

  • Wellheads

  • X-Mas trees (API-6A)

  • Subsea Manifolds (API-RP-17)

  • PLEM (API-RP-17)

  • PLET (API-RP-17)

  • Blow Out Preventers (API-53)

• Plastic piping codes

  • ISO 14692-3

5. Piping stress criticality selection.

• Definition

• Types of stress analysis based on pipe criticality

  • Visual

  • Manual

  • Computational (static, quasi-static, dynamic, FEA)

• Selection methods

  • Code based

  • Custom

  • Comparison

• Stress Criticality selection examples

6. Wall thickness Calculation (per B31.3)

• Hoop stress and wall thickness.

• Material coefficient factor Y

• Casting quality factor W

• Weld joint quality factor E

• Corrosion and Mill tolerance factors

1. Congratulations

2. Course evaluation survey

3. Your Personal Certificate

4. Rate this course

5. Related resources & follow up

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