"Fitness-for-Service and Integrity of Piping, Vessels, and Tanks: ASME Code Simplified" by George Antaki

This book provides instruction on the latest ASME recommended practices for inspecting, evaluating, and monitoring pressure vessels and Piping. This handy volume annotates and explains ASME code and API inspection and fitness-for-service practices.

With this book readers will understand and apply API 579 in their daily work. The material is based on the author’s course and presented in clear concise manor.
The book demonstrates how the disciplines of stress analysis, materials engineering, and nondestructive inspection interact and apply to fitness-for-service assessment. These assessment methods apply to pressure vessels, piping, and tanks that are in service.
Presented in a clear, precise manner, this comprehensive guide meticulously explains how stress analysis, materials, engineering, and nondestructive inspection affect fitness-for-service.

The tools needed to
• Inspect and categorize damage, degradation, and corrosion mechanisms
• Evaluate wall thinning, pitting, cracking, fatigue, mechanical damage, high-temperature corrosion, and creep
• Develop and implement programs for corrective and predictive maintenance of tanks, vessels, piping, and pipelines
• Select the right repair technique and avoid pitfalls in repair welding and joining

Contents
Preface
1 Principles
2 Materials
3 Design
4 Fabrication
5 Degradation
6 Inspection
7 Thinning
8 Geometric Defects
9 Cracks
10 Creep Damage
11 Overload
12 Failure Analysis
13 Repairs
Appendix
WRC Bulletins
Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR