Buried Metallic Pipe Analysis and Integrity Evaluation
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Description
A
course that addresses the design and analysis of buried metallic pipe, their technical basis and practical application. We will develop the design loads: normal and transient pressure, temperature, soil and surface loads, flood loads, settlements, and seismic. We will perform design calculations using simplified formulas, and have an introduction to more advanced analysis methods. The course will then provide an example for evaluating the integrity and remaining life of corroded buried pipe.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for professionals involved in the engineering, maintenance, integrity assessment, and management of buried metallic pipelines.
Learning Roadmap
- Categories of buried pipes and pipelines
- Regulations, Codes and standards overview
- Technical references
- Loads applied to buried pipe
- Pressure design
- Soil and surface loads design
- Constrained thermal effects
- Flood and flotation
- Ground settlement
- Seismic wave passage and anchor motions
- Run-or-repair decision process
- Damage mechanisms
- General metal loss evaluation
- Local thin area evaluation
- Pitting evaluation
- Cracking evaluation
Instructor
George Antaki, PE, fellow ASME, chief engineer Becht Nuclear Services. Mr. Antaki has over 43 years of experience in the nuclear industry, starting as an engineer at Westinghouse in 1975. He is chairman of ASME III Working Group Piping Design, member of ASME III subgroup Component Design, and several ASME XI task groups. He is an ASME instructor and is the author of several textbooks on ASME components: “Piping and pipeline Engineering” (M. Dekker); “Fitness-for-Service and Integrity of Piping, vessels, and Tanks” (McGraw-Hill), and Nuclear Power Plant Safety and Mechanical Integrity: Design and Operability of Mechanical Systems, Equipment and Supporting Structures (co-author.)