We're proud to congratulate our founder, Tony Paulin, P.E., on receiving the ASME B31 Forever Medal for Excellence in Piping. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers presented the award at B31 Code Week 2026 in Phoenix. The Forever Medal honors...
A monitoring layer can tell you the ground near an asset is changing. That observation, on its own, is not a pipe stress result, a tank shell stress...
A buried pipeline can clear its code stress check and still sit in ground that keeps moving after the report is filed. The check confirms the design...
When was the last time you ran a WRC calculation and fully trusted that it captured what was happening at the nozzle-to-shell junction?
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Many piping systems include components that don’t fit squarely into the standard fittings covered by the B31J-2023 SIF tables. Large branch...
For years, ASME B31.1 and B31.3 have shared a broadly similar fatigue philosophy, even though each Code evolved from its own test sets, material...
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The 2025 Edition of ASME Section VIII, Division 2 brings a number of updates to high-temperature design practices. The changes to Part 5 expand the...
Stress error estimates are commonly used in finite element analysis to indicate how stress varies within and between elements. These estimates do not...
Mesh quality is a key consideration in finite element analysis, particularly when evaluating localized stresses near geometric discontinuities. To...
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ASME Section VIII, Division 1 requires consideration of external loads under UG-22; but for decades, Division 1 did not offer a procedure for...
