Becht News | April 16, 2018 Becht Welcomes Fronek Power Systems Team... The engineering consulting operations of Fronek Power Systems LLC (FPS) are now part of Becht Engineering, effective January 26th, 2018.… Read More
Becht News | March 29, 2018 Becht’s Trevor Seipp Named ASME Fellow... Becht Engineering would like to congratulate Trevor Seipp, M. Sc., P. Eng. for recently being named an ASME Fellow in… Read More
Becht News | February 6, 2018 Becht Acquires Fronek Power... Becht Engineering Acquires Fronek Power Systems The engineering consulting operations of Fronek Power Systems LLC (FPS) (www.fronekpower.com) are now part… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | January 25, 2018 Five Keys to a Cost-Effective Repair/Modification ... : Process: Does the repair change the process chemistries, physics (fluid phase), and thermo-hydraulics (flow rates, pressures, temperatures)? Does the… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | January 11, 2018 Purpose of the Flange Bolt Rules in ASME VIII and ... The partial objective of the ASME Appendices ASME VIII Div.1 Appendix 2, and ASME III Div.1 Appendix XI provide “Rules… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | January 3, 2018 Differential Thermal Expansion: A Challenge to Fla... by George Antaki and Jeremy Lundquist It is not uncommon to use B7 low alloy high-strength bolts on stainless steel flanges.… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | July 11, 2017 Capacity Reduction of a Compression Member with an... A recent review of equipment installed in a power plant found a piping strut that was visibly bent. Would the… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | March 30, 2017 Fitness-For-Service API 579-1/ASME FFS-1: Substant... Contributing Authors: Eileen Chant, Greg Epremian, Ranjan Nadarajah, Mark Stonehouse Summarized herein are the substantial changes to API 579-1/ASME FFS-1,… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | February 9, 2017 Loads on Buried Pipe: A 100-Year Old Empirical Fo... The evaluation of the effects of surcharge loads on buried pipes can be addressed using the Iowa formula. This formula,… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | December 29, 2016 Piping Settlement Screening Tool... Settlement of a pipe support foundation is usually not a big deal to assess. A local piping flexibility model will… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | September 14, 2016 Equipment Nozzle Loads... by Greg Hollinger and George Antaki One of the qualification requirements for a piping system is to keep the loads imparted… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | June 17, 2016 ASME B31.3 – Substantive Changes in the 2016... In addition to the many clarifications, updated references to codes and standards, updates to basic allowable stresses, and added listed… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | May 18, 2016 Reduced Toughness Properties of Some Modern Carbon... Changes in steelmaking practice are reported to be causing some carbon steel piping components that are assumed by ASME Codes… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | July 14, 2015 Design/Specification of FCC Replacement Parts and ... Overview Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units were first developed in the 1930s. Over the years this technology has evolved and it… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | July 13, 2015 Fitness-for-Service of Damaged Buried Pipe –... This article outlines the procedure to evaluate the fitness-for-service of corroded buried pipe, and explains what CC N-806 covers …… Read More
