Hi Anindya,
I see your point. I am thinking that the process shown in B31.3 Appendix Z (mail) might be too time consuming. Perhaps Dave Diehl will be willing to "carry the ball" for you as he will be at the next meeting. If you ask Dave via email perhaps he will frame the question in "Code speak" and submit your questions as "his" questions. There are many precedents for this. I would do it for you but it looks like I will be in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, and will only be able to nip in at the end of the week for the Mechanical Design Committee meeting.
"Code speak", would have you frame your questions such that they could be answered as "yes" or "no". John Luf provided examples on this forum as to how the Committee would "rephrase" incoming questions in his responses to the "Occasional Stress" thread, below.
The most useful questions for the Code Committees are those that come from actual piping engineers that are using the Codes. I would encourage ALL Code using piping engineers to participate by sending intelligent inquiries to the B31 Committees. This will make for more useful Code documents.
John Luf presented this information in another thread:
Link for preparation of inquiry per B31.3
http://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/pdf/CommitteeFiles/3565.PDF Contact information for B31.1
James N. Shih
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Three Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 591-8539
Fax: (212) 591-8501
shihj@asme.org
Contact information for B31.3
Noel Lobo
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Three Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 591-8540
Fax: (212) 591-8501
lobon@asme.org
Regards, John.