These days I am searching for information in the form of literature or web sites which can provide me a general to advance level understanding of piping vibration. I am especially interested in solving piping problems due to pulsations or acoustic resonances. Can someone help me point to the good sources?

Thanks

Arshad

Arshad,
Engineering Dynamics Inc of San Antonio Texas.
EDI does an annual training seminar, which is very comprehensive and very practically oriented. I believe they now sell the course notes directly, without your having to attend the seminar.

www.engdyn.com

ps Did you achieve a satisfactory long term answer to your sea-water-intake-sump problem?

A more direct link to the Engineering Dynamics piping stuff below. Here you will find some detailed abstracts. They used to give the pdf's away for free.

http://www.engdyn.com/papers/papers_piping.htm

I have an acceptance chart that I could e-mail you if it is of interest. But it doesn't help understanding vibration's piping problems.
J-Marc

My mistake - The papers at the above linke are still available for free download at the above link. Click on a paper and look for the pdf file icon near upper right side of the page.

Also attached is a previous discussion on this subject from the old reliability-magazine.com disussion board.

PipingVibration.mht (71 Kb, 39 downloads)

electricpete posted a good link from the old message boards. We used the ANSI/ASME OM-3 criteria at my plant. Under 0.5 ips peak, no futher analysis, over 0.5 ips, we do an analysis. This can be as simple as using engineering judgement for a long flexible run of piping to doing an FMA analysis.