Dear SuperPiper,

Your concerns are well founded in fact. But I ask you what do you suggest the ASME or any of its comitteees do about this?

I publish articles through Coade in an attempt to help out the situation. Books such as Tube Turns Piping Engineering are still available with some difficulty. Courses and lectures are available.

The bottom line is when I was ~20 years old this arcane portion of the engineering sciences was a tough one to get into. It is worse in some ways now but in other ways it is better. These forums for instance are a wonderful mechnanism to exchange ideas, 30 years ago they were not available nor even thought of.

So its a tough field to grasp it was tough years ago... "A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Confuscious"