Whether you are a beginning design engineer or an experienced engineering manager developing a mechanical integrity program, this fully updated third edition gives you a thorough examination and review of the requirements applicable to the design, materials selection, fabrication, inspection, and testing of pressure vessels and their components. Guidebook for Design of ASME Section VIII Pressure Vessels, Third Edition, provides you with a review of the background issues, reference materials, technology, and techniques necessary for the safe, reliable, cost-efficient function of pressure vessels in the petrochemical, paper, power, and other industries. Solved examples throughout the volume illustrate the application of various equations given in Section VIII.

Product Description: OVERVIEW This book is written primarily for professional engineers interested in designing plate and shell structures. It covers basic aspects of theories and gives examples for the design of components due to internal and external loads as well as other loads such as wind and dead loads...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A new edition of the standard text/reference for analysis and design of petrochemical process equipment, revised to reflect current practice. Covers the theory of plates and shells and its industrial applications, and provides background for some of the design equations in the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)