内容简介：
This is an easy-to-read collection featuring ASME Piping and Pressure Vessel Code applications. It provides the essential benefits of instruction by a personal mentor who explains the whys and hows while teaching potentially dangerous lessons in physics and engineering design. Spared the embarrassment of painful mistakes, both early-career and experienced engineers will gain practical knowledge from frank, colorful cases and learn to solve a variety of mechanical problems, including pipe stress and strain, structural supports, pressure vessels, jacketed pipes, bellows-type expansion joints, process piping.