Instructor – Don Frikken
Past Chair of both the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code and B31 Standards Committees
October 24 – 27, 2011 - 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
4-DAY COURSE FEE: $1,880
Who should attend?
Engineers, senior designers, maintenance, quality assurance, inspection and manufacturing personnel in the thechemical, petroleum, plastic processing pulp and paper piping fields.
Location: Eagle Pointe Golf Club & Recreation Complex (Houston, Texas area)
12440 Eagle Pointe Dr., Mont Belvieu, TX 77580
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ASME B31.3 Process Piping - Design, Construction, and Mechanical Integrity
This course will review the basic requirements ofthe ASME B31 Code for Pressure Piping with emphasison B31.3 and comparisons with B31.1 - PowerPiping. General topics in the course include Codeorganization and intent, pressure design, designfor sustained loads including support design, flexibility analysis, equipment loads, flanges, expansion joints, supports and restraints, materials, fabrication, examination, testing, and, for existing piping systems, mechanical integrity. Inspection and maintenance (mechanical integrity) of existing piping systems will be covered, as provided in API570, Piping Inspection Code.
Course Fees Include : Comprehensive Manual of Course Notes. Lunch, Coffee & SnacksB31.3. Course Participants will receive a copy of Dr. Becht’s book, Process Piping: The Complete Guide to ASME B31.3
Don Frikken is an internationally recognized authority in piping design. Now employed by Becht Engineering, Don had been with Solution, Inc. and Monsanto Company for 34 years; working on a wide range of activities including piping and mechanical design, project engineering, and engineering standards. However, Don’s principal specialty ispiping design, including design of complex piping systems, piping flexibility analysis, selection of piping components, development of piping standards and specifications, and developing and teaching numerous piping seminars and workshops. He is an ASME Fellow and isactive on various ASME standards committees. He is past Chair of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code committee, past Chair of the B31 Standards Committee, which oversees all B31 Piping Code committees, member of the B16 Standards Committee, past member of the Board on Pressure Technology Codes and Standards, member of the Council on Standards and Certification, which overseesthe development and maintenance of six hundred ASME codes and standards. Don has received a numberof awards including the ASME Melvin R. Green Codes and Standards Medal, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of documents used in ASME programs of technical codification, standardization and certification. Don graduated with a BSME from Kansas State University and has a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.