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ASME B31.3 Stress Range Factor: The 2022 Revision and Why It Matters

July 20, 2026July 18, 2026 by Tom Irvine

A change to a single equation in ASME B31.3 has meaningful consequences for how piping displacement stress is evaluated in high-cycle service. The change is small in appearance and large in effect, and it is worth understanding both the arithmetic and the seventy years of… Read more

Water Hammer: Physics, Engineering, and Pulse Duration

July 20, 2026June 10, 2026 by Tom Irvine

Image courtesy of: https://www.rhfs.com Introduction Water hammer is one of those phenomena that every piping engineer encounters eventually—and usually remembers. It is the sudden, jarring metallic bang that makes everyone in the control room sit up straight, the distinct shudder transmitted through a facility’s pipe… Read more

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