Companion Guide to the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Codes, Fifth Edition, Volume 1: Criteria and Commentary on Select Aspects of the Boiler & Pressur

This fully updated and revised fifth edition of the classic reference work
addresses in 40 chapters the ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel & Piping
Codes and Standards. In this entirely updated publication, experts
discuss several ongoing issues up to and beyond the 2015 Code edition,
including topics pertinent to 2017 Code edition. With both entirely new
and extensively rewritten chapters, the Code expert contributors consider
the use of this publication with regard to the changes leading to the 2017
B&PV Code.
This edition is available in a convenient two-volume format that
focuses on all twelve sections of the ASME Code, and has two additional
chapters covering the foreseeable new trends of the ASME Boiler &
Pressure Vessel Codes. Chapters are comprehensively covered for this
edition by 51 ASME B&PV Code experts, whose biographical data is
included within the two volumes. An easy and quick to understand
introduction in the front matter of each of the volumes succinctly explains
what is elaborated in nearly 2000 pages of this two-volume publication.
Another feature of this publication is that all users of the ASME Boiler &
Pressure Vessel Code can benefit from the comprehensive index of 8000
individual Code-related items.