ASME B31.4 Standards: Benefits, Strengths and Limitations
The ASME B31.4 standard, "Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquids and Slurries," provides
comprehensive guidelines for the design, materials, construction, assembly, inspection, testing,
operation and maintenance of pipeline systems used to transport liquids and slurries. Originally
published in 1956, the standard has been revised multiple times.
As with many ASME standards, the B31.4 standard is not a design manual but is intended to guide
those who wish to comply with industry practices. However, many users find the B31.4 code
intimidating, mostly because of the subject layout and interrelated topics.
This course is a chapter-by-chapter review of the standard’s benefits, strengths and limitations, as well
as guideline interpretations.
Following a decade in the aerospace industry, where he developed the primary controls and structures for full-flight simulations, in 1999 Alan earned his professional engineer’s license and joined T.D. Williamson (TDW) as a project engineer. He supported the development of the world’s largest tapping machine, the 2460XX, and was granted six product patents in the U.S. and other countries, helping to improve the company’s position in the market.
In this course, you will learn:
• What the standard expects and the definitions it uses.
• Code compliance.
• How to structure inquiries with the standards committee to obtain
the most relevant and helpful response.
• Practical aspects of pipeline design, construction and maintenance.