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B31.1 Power Piping Code ASME B31 Piping PIPING AND PIPELINE � PUBLIC COURSES
Fabrication and Examination
PD013 ASME Standards Course
PD445 ASME Standards Course
This intensive, five-day course details the latest Power Piping Code
requirements – key elements in creating the more effective piping This course familiarizes participants with the rules of the B31 Code
systems today’s competitive environment demands. It provides insight sections (B31.1, B31.3, B31.5, and B31.9), which cover the various
into how they have evolved and what future changes may be expected. Fabrication and Examination rules. The course also stresses the
importance of the relationship of the Fabrication and Examination rules
Importantly, this course explores the background, rules and trends in to the design of the piping system. The presentation includes case
piping design, analysis, and fabrication – all vital elements of power, studies of problems that occur as a result of not understanding these
industrial and institutional plant construction and maintenance – within rules. Participants leave with insight into the reasons for the creation of
the context of meeting the requirements and intent of ASME B31.1 and its the B31.3 Fabrication and Examination rules as well as their applications.
appendices.
You Will Learn To
Each attendee will receive a copy of the B31.1 Power Piping codebook. • Describe materials selection and limitations
• Explain fabrication rules and their bases
You Will Learn To • Explain the differences between the B31 Code Sections
• Explain the principal failure modes of piping components and where • Identify welding qualification requirements
• Describe inspection, examination, and testing requirements
to look for them
• Describe the difference between pressure component design and Who Should Attend
Piping engineers and designers, fabricators and erectors, QA/QC
structural design personnel, engineers and maintenance personnel
• Identify layout and simplified analysis techniques
• Explain how to qualify nonstandard fittings and joints and develop Instructor John P. Swezy. Jr.
2 Days, 1.5 CEUs, 15 PDHs
stress intensification factors Member $1,700 / List Price $1,800
• Describe materials selection and limitations, fabrication rules and their

bases
• Identify welding qualification requirements, along with inspection,

examination and testing requirements
• Identify the Code requirements for power piping maintenance

Who Should Attend
Engineers entering the piping design and analysis field; practicing piping
engineers requiring background on Code compliance and trends in
piping design, analysis and fabrication; piping fabricators and suppliers
wishing to understand the relationship of fabrication and manufacture to
the design and construction of piping systems; QA/QC personnel

Special Requirements
Attendees are required to bring a scientific calculator to the course.

Instructors Joe Frey, Ronald W. Haupt or Bob Wilson
5 Days, 3.8 CEUs, 38 PDHs
Member $3,390 / List Price $3,490

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