Category: Piping Design Basics

The factor of safety or safety factor is a very important term in engineering design. While designing any Engineering product or component, safety is of utmost importance. To ensure the safety of...

A flexible hose is a type of piping used to connect two distant points to transport or transfer fluid. In Oil & Gas applications, hoses are used when there is a considerable relative movement. A...

What is a Slip Joint? Slip Joints are mechanical joints that allow the contact surfaces of the pipes joined together to slip away from each other. When there is a large thermal movement of pipe...

PVC piping is one of the versatile types of plastic piping. PVC pipes have been in use for many years servicing a lot of applications in various market sectors. These pipes are made out of a material...

Stress-Strain Curve is a graphical plot of a material's Stress and its Strain. Stress is plotted on the Y-Axis and Strain is plotted on the X-axis. This Stress and Strain curve provides the relation...

Pascal's law, also known as the principle of transmission of fluid pressure or Pascal's Principle is a very important theory of fluid mechanics. The law was first stated by the French Mathematician...