piping stress

Hi everyone,
i am Mech engr. & my company wants me to start stress analysis, so for transforming i badly need to know all the basic guidelines about Piping stress manually as well as of caesarII, so can any1 in this forum suggest me some genuine online material to learn the basics of piping stress analysis. plzzzzzz, i'm really in desperate need of it.....
Any help shall be highly appreciable.


IMRAN.

Go back to your posting on pipingdesigners.com and see a response.

You can refer the Coade' caesar II Manual. Normally it is stored in Program Files\COADE\CAESAR II \ C2_ doc when you successfully install caesar software.

Get it read read & read it unless you are done.

Pankaj123 .... THAT IS RUBBISH.

You learn stress analysis, having obtained a proper education in engineering, by working with experienced stress engineers, under the guidance of an expert.

Caesar II is a world class piece of software but it does not do stress analysis per se, it does sums. Reading the Caesar II manuals will not teach you stress analysis.

Completing a Coade training seminar would give a good grounding in stress, and would provide a valuable reference source in the course notes.

Dear Moverz,

It's not RUBISH to provide the link for the online documents which he is asking for. I can understand that,any new starter in Stress analysis,shall be done under the able guidance of the senior.

So Moverz, do learn to control emotions.. They can be distrctiuve most of the time rather than constructive.

Mohammed,
For new starter, there is so much information available. Just Google by Breen's name in this forum. Also Google by "Peng-stress analysis".

dEAR IMRAN,

HERE IS ONE OF THE REPLY FROM SENIOR & WELL RESPECTED MEMBER MR. JOHN BREEN...YOU WILL FIND IT QUIET HELPFUL.


You will discover that the search function on this discussion board can bring you a wealth of information. Nearly ANY piping design topic or Code topic that you will encounter has already been discussed here. You can search for topics and read the various threads for discussions of those topics. If, in your study, you have difficulty with a specific topic you should form a concise, unambiguous question and post that question here - you will get many good "points of view" from those who regularly post here. ASK QUESTIONS and remember that you are not alone - some people are reluctant to ask questions and so perhaps the answer to YOUR question will also be useful to someone else. You will find that if you are willing "to do your homework" and TRY to find the best answer to your questions in the previous threads, the people who contribute here will be much more receptive to your future questions.

Also, Bom has provided you with a list of frequent contributors to these discussions. You can for example search for all the contributions of John Luf or Anindya or any of the others and read what they have written in the past. You will find this very educational. This discussion board also provides a way of asking questions of specific members by way of "private messages". Also PLEASE DO find all the COADE newsletters ("Mechanical Engineering") from the past and print them, read them and put them in a folder for future reference. As mentioned above, there are books you should read. Some of the old (out of print) books may be very expensive (sometimes the shipping charges are also very expensive) but you may be able to find some titles in libraries near you.

There are good books CURRENTLY IN PRINT that may answer most of your questions about the fundamental concepts. The book by Glenn Woods and Roy Baguley (Practical Guide to ASME B31.3) and the Book by Dr. Charles Becht, IV, (Process Piping, A Complete Guide to ASME B31.3) are excellent. If you study and "digest" these books you will learn most of the basic concepts quickly. You may want to "dig deeper" to find the history of some of the Code concepts but it is best to "learn how to walk before you try to learn how to run". If when you read these books you have a need to discuss the concepts further then bring the specific concept to this forum.

Dear Pankaj,
Thanks for conveying encouraging and inspirational thoughts...Shall stick to it .


Regards.