Advanced Pipe Stress Analysis for Beginners, Layout, Materials, and Construction Professionals

Part A: Basics of Pipe Stress Analysis

• What is Pipe Stress Analysis?

• Stress Critical Line List Preparation with Practical Case Study

• Inputs Required for Pipe Stress Analysis

• Basics of ASME B31 3 for a Piping Stress Engineer

  • ASME B31.3 Scopes and Exclusions

  • Why stress is generated in a piping system

  • Types of Pipe Stresses

  • Pipe Thickness Calculation

  • Reinforcement Requirements

  • ASME B31.3 Code Equations and Allowables

• Introduction to Pipe Supports

  • Role of Pipe Supports in Piping Design

  • Types of Pipe Supports

  • List of Pipe Supports

  • Pipe Support Span

  • How to Support a Pipe?

  • Pipe Support Optimization Rules

  • Pipe Support Standard

  • Support Engineering Considerations

• What is a Piping Isometric?

• What is an Expansion Loop?

• Bonus Lecture: Introduction to Pipe Stress

• Bonus Lecture: Pressure Stresses in Piping

Part-B: Static Analysis in Caesar II

• Introduction to Caesar II

• Getting Started in Caesar II

• Stress Analysis of Pump Piping System

• Creating Load Cases

• Wind and Seismic Analysis

• Generating Stress Analysis Reports

• Editing Stress Analysis Model

• Spring Hanger Selection and Design in Caesar II

  • Introduction

  • Types of Spring Hangers

  • Components of a Spring Hanger

  • Selection of Variable and Constant Spring hangers

  • Case Study of Spring Hanger Design and Selection

  • Certain Salient Points

• Flange Leakage Analysis in Caesar II

  • Introduction

  • Types of Flange Leakage Analysis and Background Theory

  • Case Study-Pressure Equivalent Analysis

  • Case Study-NC Method

  • Case Study-ASME Sec VIII method

• Stress Analysis of PSV Piping System

  • Introduction

  • PSV Reaction force Calculation

  • Applying PSV Reaction force

  • Practical Case Study

  • Certain best practices

• Heat Exchanger Pipe Stress Analysis

  • Introduction

  • Creating Temperature Profile

  • Modeling the Heat Exchanger

  • Nozzle Load Qualification

  • Practical Case Study

  • Methodology for shell and tube inlet nozzle stress analysis

• Vertical Tower Piping Stress Analysis

  • Introduction

  • Creating Temperature Profile

  • Equipment Modeling

  • Modeling Cleat Supports

  • Skirt temperature Calculation

  • Nozzle Load Qualification

  • Practical Example

• Storage Tank Piping Stress Analysis

  • Introduction

  • Reason for Criticality of storage tank piping

  • Tank Settlement

  • Tank Bulging

  • Practical example of tank piping stress analysis

  • Nozzle Loading

• Pump Piping Stress Analysis

  • API610 Pump nozzle evaluation using Caesar II

Part C: Dynamic Analysis is Caesar II

• Introduction-Dynamic Analysis in Caesar II

• Types of Dynamic Analysis

• Static vs Dynamic Analysis

• Dynamic Modal Analysis

• Equivalent Static Slug Flow Analysis

• Dynamic Response Spectrum Analysis

Part D: Miscellaneous other details

• WRC 297/537 Calculation

  • What is WRC 537 and WRC 297

  • Inputs for WRC Calculation

  • WRC Calculation with Practical Example

• Underground Pipe Stress Analysis

• Jacketed Piping Stress Analysis

• Create Unit and configuration file in CAESAR II

• ASME B31J for improved Method for i, k Calculation in Caesar II

• Discussion about certain Questions and Answers

• GRE/FRP Pipe stress analysis

  • GRE Pipe Stress Analysis using Caesar II

  • GRE Stress Analysis-Basics

  • FRP Pipe Stress Analysis Case Study

  • GRE Flange leakage Analysis

  • Meaning of Stress Envelope; Understand it

• Reviewing A Piping Stress System

  • Introduction

  • What to Review

  • Reviewing Steps

  • Case Study of Reviewing Pipe Stress Analysis Report

  • Reviewing Best Practices

• FIV Study

  • Flow Induced Vibrations-Introduction

  • What is Flow Induced Vibration

  • Flow Induced Vibration Analysis

  • Corrective-Mitigation Options

• AIV Study

  • Introduction

  • What is Acoustic Induced Vibration

  • Acoustic Induced Vibration Analysis

  • Corrective-Mitigation Options

• 2-hours of Doubt-clearing session with the mentor

Please note that additional to our actual course lectures, we have added several free resources (marked as free in respective module) by other pipe stress experts to make your learning more clear and complete. Those resources may not work sometimes if anyone from those owners blocks the free access.