Companion Guide to the Asme Boiler & Pressure Vessel Codes, Fifth Edition, Volume 2

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.