good evening!friend!
I want to ask you some doubts.I am new to learn caesarii, i encounter many difficulties. such as :i dont have any imformation about caesar ,so i learn very hard,i only can read caesar help .
what is your experience in learning it ,do you learn it in your colledg.
are there some books about caesar in the libary when you are in colledg?
i now have nothing,so it is hard for me ,i want to ask you for some caesar
imformation,do you have some ?could you please give any?thank you !
waiting for your help!

The only classes on CAESAR II are given by COADE. I'm sure you can search the site for information, although I don't know if they give classes in China.

Basic texts on the general subject of piping design and analysis are available. The ones I have include

Design of Piping Systems, 2nd edition, M.W. Kellogg
Process Piping, Becht
Piping Design and Engineering, Grinnell

There are also on-line courses available from the ASME (www.asme.org), with other textbooks that you can order from them.

This is a field of study that is best learned from experienced co-workers. If you don't have such a person available to you, I wish you luck. You're going to need it.

If you want to master Caesar II in fact there are two important things you have to get familiar with:

1) Code Rules. Apply the relevant codes to check your piping system (ANSI, ASME, ISO, DIN ect)

2) Principles of Finite Element techniques

good luck!

The truth is, there aren't really any college programs that will produce a "pipe stress engineer". The only way to get good at it is to go to work for a company that has an established and dedicated pipe stress group. It will take several years working with mentors to learn enough to be a decent stress engineer.

The most important lesson to learn is that loading up Caesar and building a model from some drawing is not engineering. Caesar is just a fancy calculator.

The books and resources recommend above are good places to get background information. But, you can't really boot strap your way into this field. I echo CraigB - if you are not working in a group that already has experienced stress people that you can learn from, you should either find another company, or find another position within your company. You don't start a stress group with a new grad engineer. You start it by hiring in a 20-30 year veteran who can then start training new grads and passing his/her knowledge on to the next generation.