Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) Engineering for Piping Systems

1. Welcome & Your instructors

2. Content Overview

3. How to use this course

4. Questions Forum

1. FRP Materials and manufacturing

2. Material specifications of FRP

3. Manufacturing methods of GRP

4. GRP Application
   

5. Material limitations

6. Market range

7. Applications of GRP

A sample of the first module is available for free, so you can learn more about the teaching style and understand if the course fits your needs.

1. FRP Material properties

2. Bi-axial materials

3. Steel versus FRP

4. Short-term and long-term strenght

5. Qualification 

6. GRP qualification tests
   

1. GRP codes

2. Overview of GRP codes 

3. Philosophies in GRP standards

4. Piping code ISO 14692

1. Stress analysis of FRP systems

2. Pipe stress analysis

3. Constructing a stress envelope

4. Reducing material stress
   

5. Surge analysis and flange assessment

6. Surge analysis for FRP piping

7. Flange assessment
   

1. Buried FRP Piping

2. Pipe stress analysis 

3. Ring strenght calculations 

1. Material failure theories

2. GRP material strenght 

3. Failure criteria

4. Ultimate Elastic Wall Stress

5. Material qualification

6. Full qualifiation

7. Regression

8. 1000 hrs survival test
   

1. FRP failure

2. Longitudinal vs. circumferential cracks

3. Joint strenght and failure in FRP

4. Joint strenght and failure

5. Flange failure

6. Failure due to design errors

7. Failure miscellaneous

1. Introduction to Fiberglass engineering

2. Introduction to Modeling Session

3. Agenda to Fiberglass engineering

4. Configuration editor in Caesar II

5. Special execution Parameters

6. Pipe vendor Engineering Guide Data

7. Material Properties Input

8. Pipe vendor Engineering Guide Proces

9. Pipe Stiffness Parameter Input

10. Stress Envelope Parameter Input

11. Pipe vendor input Hydrostatic Design Stress

12. Long-term Axial and Hoop Strength input

13. Modeling of Fittings

14. Pipe Support Span

15. Load case Set-up in ISO 14692

16. Interpretation of Results

17. Flange Check in Caesar II

18. Euler buckling for Aboveground Pipes

19. Shell Buckling

1. Course evaluation survey

2. Your Personal Certificate

3. Related resources

Access to the course. 
After your purchase is confirmed it will be activated to your account on the EngineeringTrainer learning portal. Here you will find the course in your dashboard and you will be guided step-by-step through the different course modules. You receive 1-year unlimited access to the course. This allows you to perform modules again when you need to refresh knowledge for your work projects.

Learn by doing.
The course is mainly based on video content: video lectures and video software demonstrations. English subtitles are available and videos can be viewed as many times as desired. The video lectures help you to grasp the important technical concepts.

This course is self-paced and is not subject to specific dates. The course contains 7 modules with a total of 8:36 hours of content which can be performed at your own pace. A Personal Certificate will be provided to participants if they finish the course within the first month after purchase. This incentive will motivate you to perform the course quickly thereby improving your learning curve.

You receive 1-year unlimited access to all modules. This allows you to perform modules again when you need to refresh knowledge for your work projects.

Participants of this course receive a personal digital certificate if they meet the following requirements:

• completion of each module of the course,

• filling in the Course Evaluation Survey.

Example Certificate: