To protect surfaces and improve sliding properties, wear pads are used in industrial applications from earlier days. Also known as slider pads, wear pads increase the wear resistance capability and...
Category: Piping Stress Basics
What is a Pipe Anchor? Its Definition, Types, and Functions (PDF)
A pipe anchor is a type of pipe support that is used to control pipe movements by fixing the pipe with secondary civil structures. Piping anchor supports are very important in piping and pipeline...
Being a piping engineer you must be familiar with the term "Piping Shoe". Pipe shoe supports are highly popular for insulated lines. As insulation material is usually not capable to withstand high...
How to account for Piping Thermal Expansion and Contraction during the design (With PDF)
What causes thermal expansion in piping? All piping materials expand or contract when exposed to temperatures greater or lower than the installation temperature. As the temperature of the pipe...
The piping engineering would not have been developed so much in absence of piping software packages. Today, almost all the piping design activities are performed using various piping software...
What’s new in ASME B31.3-2020? ASME B31.3 2020 vs 2018 (With PDF)
Hopefully, all of you are aware that the latest edition of the process piping bible ASME B31.3-2020, which will revise the 2018 edition of the same code is going to be issued on the 18th of June,...
