ASME Standards

This guideline provides a recommendation and potential guidance to address observed gaps in data and recordkeeping practices that are currently prescribed in the ASME pipeline standards B31.8, B31.8S, and B31.4. The authors reviewed pipeline industry standards and standards from other industries to identify potential best practices and lessons learned. The industry needs a go-forward approach

When the EC Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) 97/23/CE was adopted in May 1997, it became clear that pressure equipment designed and built to standards other than European standards could carry the CE mark. This was made possible by the European New Approach, in which Essential Safety Requirements (ESR) are established in the Directives, and standards

This compendium describes each ASME standard referenced in 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 192, 49 CFR Part 193, and 49 CFR Part 195. For each 49 CFR Part the referenced ASME standard will be identified and, in the case of ASME B31.8S and certain other ASME standards, the relevant text will

Example problems illustrating the use of the design-by-rule and design-by-analysis methods in ASME B&PV Code, Section VIII, Division 2 are provided in this document. Example problems are provided for all calculation procedures in both SI and US Customary units.