Guidebook for the Design of ASME Section VIII, Pressure Vessels

Whether you are a beginning design engineer or an experienced engineering manager developing a mechanical integrity program, this updated volume 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 the Design of ASME Section VII Pressure Vessels, Second Edition, provides you with a review of the background issues, reference materials, technology, and techniques necessary for the safe, reliable, and 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.James R. Farr is the author of 'Guidebook for the Design of ASME Section VIII, Pressure Vessels' with ISBN 9780791801727 and ISBN 0791801721.