ASME B31.3 Code Design Requirements

Attendees who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. recall the local Safety Code Act laws, pressure equipment safety regulations (PESR), and jurisdiction (ABSA) rules related codes and standards for new construction or in-service repair of ASME B31.3 piping;
2. efficiently navigate the ASME B31.3 code;
3. identify the major differences between ASME B31.3 and B31.1 fabrication rules;
4. review listed ASTM specifications referenced in ASME B31.3  and related and material test reports (MTRs), including multiple marking, to ensure they are acceptable for the material ordered;
5. investigate, analyze, interpret, articulate, and apply the welding fabrication rules of ASME B31.3 and apply them to when reviewing qualified welding procedure specifications (WPSs) to ensure they are suitable to weld on ASME B31.3 piping;
6. identify and navigate the basic rules for ASME B31.3 inspection and examination rules; and
7. recall the basic rules for ASME B31.3 leak testing rules, including closure welds.

Engineers, inspectors, maintenance and QA personnel, NDE technicians, experienced tradespeople, who work for owner-user companies, EPCs, inspection companies, fabricators, maintenance service and repair companies, and inspection companies from refineries, upgrader plants, oil sands plants, SAGD plants, petrochemical plants, power plants, gas/oil pipeline companies, pulp mills, repair and maintenance shops, equipment manufacturers, third party inspection and NDE companies, and all supporting industries.

• Notebook with 750+ pages will be provided.
• Over 60 Connecting-the-Codes Examples, including step-by-step instructions showing "how to" apply the code rules, along with the code "look-up tables" highlighted, underlined, and answer circled to clearly demonstrate the "how to" example.
• Review of 24 ASME B31.3 Code Interpretations.
• Workshop: review WPSs for ASME B31.3 fabrication.
• Workshop: QC checks of ASTM specifications and MTRs: ASTM A105, A106 Gr. B, A333 Gr. 6, A312 Gr. 316/316L.
• Workshop: QC check of MTRs with multiple markings.
• Over 60 practice questions to measure knowledge gained

Introduction to Regulations, Codes and Standards

• Federal Acts and Regulations
  
• Provincial Acts and Regulations
  
• Canadian Pressure Equipment Standards – CSA B51 requirements
  
• Piping that is not ASME B31.3 Code (e.g., Plumbing, Power, Fuel Gas)

Introduction to ASME B31.3

• ASME B31.3 Code history and basic philosophy
  
• ASME B31.3 Code organization

Definitions

• Principal axis and stress
  
• Failure theories
  
• Stress categories
  
• Definition and basis for allowable stress
  
• Fluid service

Piping Design Criteria

• Design conditions
  
• Design loads (pressure, weight, thermal, seismic, wind, anchor movement)
  
• Failure modes
  
• Primary and secondary stress categories
  
• Load categorization
  
• Allowable stresses

Pressure Design of Piping Components

• Straight Pipe (internal and external pressure)
  
• Elbows and bends (consideration of wall thinning)
• Branch connections (area replacement)
  
  • Stub in connections
    
  • Extruded outlet header
    
  • Wye pattern fittings
• Closures
  
• Blind flanges and blanks
  
• Other unlisted components
  * An overview of typical materials and materials requirements as is necessary to understand design implications shall be provided

Listed Piping Components

• MSS SP-95 Nipples and swages
  
• MSS SP-97 Integrally Reinforced Branch Connections (e.g., Olets)
  
• ASME B16.9 wrought fittings (buttwelded)
  
• ASME B16.11 forged fittings (threaded and socket welded)
  
• ASME B16.5, B16.36, B16.47, and MSS SP-44 flanges
  
• ASME B16.20 and B16.21 gaskets
  
• ASME B16.48 blanks
  
• Valves (ASME, API, MSS)
  * An overview of typical materials and materials requirements as is necessary to understand design implications shall be provided

Instrument Tubing Components

• Straight Tubing (mechanical properties, material standards)
  
• Tube Fittings
  
• Testing requirements

Overview of Pipe Flexibility Analysis

• Allowable and displacement stresses
  
• Flexibility
  
• Bending stress
  
• Torsional stress
  
• Fatigue
  
• Stress intensification
  
• Combined loads
  
• Cold spring
  
• Simplified analysis methods
  * This section will not be presented to the same level of detail as in other CASTI ASME B31.3 courses.

Pipe Support Design

• Support types
  
• Assumptions
  
• Load combinations

Piping Types

• System piping
  
• Pressure relief piping
  
• Category M (lethal) service
  
• High pressure service (Chapter IX)

Leak Testing

• Required Leak testing
• Hydrostatic testing
  
• Pneumatic testing
  
• Alternative leak testing
  
• Initial service testing

Problem Solving Workshops

• With practical examples

All participants must bring the ASME B31.3 code book to this class. This code book can be purchased from CASTI when you register for this course.