168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

By: Gerald H. May, PE

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Course Objective

This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description

168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

The long term mechanical integrity of piping systems is critical to ensuring safety of personnel, and the reliability of a plant. Pipe failures do occur at many facilities, and most failures can be avoided by proper periodic visual observation of the pipe and pipe supports; and Non Destructive Examination (NDE) focused on certain piping systems and locations.

This course describes the methods, checklists and examples of performing visual observations. When finished, the student will understand why the variable spring hanger in the photo is a concern. The course also shows a method to set up a long term NDE monitoring system, and guides to evaluating the results. Guidelines for developing Short Term and Long Term Recommendations are also provided to maintain the Mechanical Integrity of piping systems over decades.

This course is intended for those who work in industrial facilities to make them aware of a system they could set up, or maintain; for management who should be focused on reliability and safety issues; and for engineers designing plants to set up appropriate programs during the design and construction phases of the project.

The Piping Engineering curriculum by Mr. May includes:

Introduction to Piping Engineering
Building Mechanical Integrity Into the Plant Design
Pipe Support Failures

Questions about this course? Email the Author: gmay@structint.com

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Review of: Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Thomas McCawley

08/21/2023

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Well organized course for a technical area that is often overlooked.

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Jose Meruelo

08/10/2023

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Very informative

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D. Jones

07/25/2023

Good information with practical usage. Ideal for review purposes.

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John Weis

05/24/2022

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Very informative. Great Maintenance Management practices.

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Erwin Everett

08/10/2021

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Course was interesting but could have been more detailed on actual testing of piping.

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Charles Boyter

02/18/2021

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James Bears

01/22/2021

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Provides a lot of very good and very practical information

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Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Bob Wooten

12/28/2020

A good course about an important topic.

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Nicholas Halbrook

07/04/2020

Note to SunCam & Author: Agree that per another comment this course needs to be updated to new code inspection requirements and recommendations for covered piping. Given the answer for Q5 choices d & e need to be swapped. Too many questions awkwardly or imprecisely or vaguely worded. So so overall course.

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Luis Figueredo

06/01/2020

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Informative, well organized, and the test questions were pithy.

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity of piping Systems

Radhika deSilva

05/04/2020

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I got an appreciation for the importance and challenges of assessing mechanical integrity of piping systems.

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Eric Nelson

05/02/2020

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A good review of items to include in establishing and performing visual inspections of piping systems. These inspections can be included as part of an overall Fitness-for Service program.

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Stephen Schaller

01/17/2020

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This course is from 2012 and is beginning to be a bit outdated. For instance ASME B31.1 now has a requirement for piping maintenance plans of "covered piping systems" (CPS) in Chapter VII, Paragraph 139 and recommendations in Non-Mandatory Appendix V. Here is a good article: https://www.powermag.com/implementing-an-asme-covered-piping-systems-program-2/

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Ralph Wright

01/17/2020

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It was a very good presentation and educational experience on pipe supports and mechanical integrity inspection of piping systems

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

John Greaney

01/12/2020

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Very informative

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Surendra Jain

12/24/2019

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Very useful and practical for piping systems.

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Douglas Grant

09/04/2019

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Very useful practical information.

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

Daniel Compagno

03/10/2018

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Some questions were a little confusing.

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168-Life Cycle Mechanical Integrity Of Piping Systems

12/19/2016

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Questions 8 and 10 were could not be answered correctly from course material. For question 8, the course material states that the control room can only read pipe temperature. Question 10 was just confusing and did not tie with course material.

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Life cycle mechanical integrity of piping systems

Jerry DeWeese

08/15/2016

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improved my understanding of these systems and possible failure points. Easy to understand and well written

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Course Code: 100202-04

Course PDH Hours: 4

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