GB-ASME-VIII
CASTI GUIDEBOOK TO ASME SECTION VIII DIV. 1

Published: 2005
Pages: 290
Price: $180.00

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A new edition of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code is published every three years. The 2004 Code is a new Edition and contains many important changes to Section VIII. Our newly updated CASTI Guidebook to ASME Section VIII Div. 1 - Pressure Vessels covers the new 2004 edition of the ASME Section VIII Div. 1 Code and its many significant changes.

Because the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code is presented with limited explanation, users of the Code who do not have an extensive scientific or engineering background may have question regarding the many rules of the Code and its minimalist nature.

The intent of this Guidebook is to offer Code users a better understanding of the scope of Section VIII and to provide guidance on Code design considerations, fabrication, materials selection, inspection, testing, and much more. The authors of this Guidebook also explain some well established engineering practice that perhaps, because of its fundamental nature, is overlooked by many Code users.

This Guidebook is filled with practical examples which explain the ASME Section VIII Div. 1 Code rules so that Code users can walk their way through pressure vessel design calculations, material data, fabrication (welding), NDE inspection and testing. It also contains the finer details of Code requirements for pressure vessels and provides clarity, even to the experienced Code user.

This Guidebook goes far beyond the literary words of the Code by explaining specific Code paragraphs and related ASME Code Interpretations to provide guidance where a close study of the Code, on its own, may not produce a clear conclusion. It is written by the former ASME Section VIII Design committee chairman, Will Carter, and long time Code user, Bruce Ball. Both are professional engineers with over 60 years of combined experience related to pressure vessels and the ASME Codes.

The intent of this Guidebook is to provide the users of ASME Section VIII (Div. 1 and 2) and Section IX with an explanation of all technical revisions and the background behind the revisions introduced in the new 2004 Code. Being aware of the intent of the revision will provide the Code user a better understanding of the change and its significance