Piping inspection · Site supervision · API 570
Demystifying piping systems for every engineer.
Piping systems form the lifelines of industrial processing plants, manufacturing facilities and infrastructure. Yet clear, consolidated, practical learning material is hard to find.
PipingInspector exists to make high-quality piping education freely available to the global engineering community. Work through the modules, the reference tables and the worked illustrations, and build the technical confidence the job asks for.
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The piping work, end to end
Five parts, in the order the work happens. Each is a learning path — start at the top and work down, or jump to the topic you need.
Materials & specification
What a line is made of and how the specification says so. Pipe and plate materials, sizes and schedules, fittings, valves, flanges, gaskets and bolting — ending at the line class that pulls them together.
11 topics →Layout & supports
Where the line runs and what holds it up. Supports and restraint, expansion loops and joints, spring hangers, nozzle loads, pump piping, plot plan and the access a line needs to be maintained.
11 topics →Fabrication, welding & NDE
How a joint is made and how it is proved. Welding processes, WPS and PQR, Section IX variables, welder qualification, fit-up and heat treatment, non-destructive examination and the test plans that govern them.
11 topics →Testing, erection & supervision
Getting the line installed and signed off. Isometrics to installed spools, rigging and scaffold, pressure test packs, tie-ins and shutdown windows, progress measurement and the site records that support a claim.
12 topics →Inspection & integrity
The forty years after handover, and the core of the API 570 syllabus. Damage mechanisms, corrosion loops and circuits, integrity operating windows, and risk-based inspection from assessment to recommendation.
8 topics →Plant context
The disciplines piping works alongside — reading a P&ID, permits and isolation, hazardous areas, pipe-rack steel, pumps and relief systems.
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