The PVP conference continues to be the international technical forum for the information exchange in different topics related to Pressure Vessel and Piping technologies. Workshops and Tutorials present an excellent forum for the participants to further their knowledge-base by being exposed to diverse topics and exchange opinions and ideas both from industries and academia.

Workshop and Tutorial topics are chosen based on the general interest suitable for the PVP Conference attendees. Admission to the workshops and the tutorial sessions is free and they are open to anyone who is a registered conference attendee.

Workshops

Rapid Structural Analysis for Pressure Vessel Design
Sunday July 22, 9:00 AM - 11:30 PM, in PECAN room
Janet Wolf, ANSYS, Inc.

Pressure vessel codes can only be applied to known values of stress, and this cannot always be easily determined by hand calculation with more complex vessel geometries.

The ANSYS Pressure Vessel Module addresses this need by helping to build, analyze, and check pressure vessels against industry standards. This workshop will show how to use the ANSYS Pressure Vessel Module to analyze and check a design, and give hands-on experience with examples.

Modeling Fluid Structure Interaction
Sunday July 22, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM, in PECAN room
Hoang Vinh, ANSYS, Inc.

This workshop will focus on the use of ANSYS products to perform semi-implicit matrix-coupled fluid-structure-interaction (FSI) calculations within the ANSYS Workbench environment. Given some familiarity with finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics, attendees will be able to setup and perform FSI calculations at the end of the workshop.

Register online for the ANSYS workshops!

Tutorials

Special Tutorial is a 2 hour conference session usually held on Sunday afternoon. The session leader will make available the necessary presentation material.

Technical Tutorials are a ½ day conference sessions and are integrated in the conference schedule. Attendees may purchase a set of the "Tutorial Notes"; the charge is set as low as possible based on the cost of production.

• Each attendee will receive a "Certificate of Attendance" as a proof that the attendee has participated in the "2 hour Special Tutorial" or the "4 hour Technical Tutorial".
• VP Division will not assign Continuing Education Units (CEU) on these certificates however; attendees may negotiate CEU credits with their respective licensing boards.

Following is the line-up for the tutorial sessions for the 2006 PVP conference.

Special Tutorial
Communicating Engineering Solutions and the Concept of Risk to the Public
Sunday July 22, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, in LIVE OAK room
Christopher Bajwa, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

This tutorial will examine some of the basic concepts behind effective communication of risk and other engineering-information as well as explore certain aspects of public policy and how it can be influenced by effective communications of one's ideas.

Technical Tutorial I
Fundamentals of Water Hammer in Industrial Systems
Monday July 23, 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM, in REGENCY EAST #1
Robert Leishear, Savannah River National Laboratory

The tutorial is comprised of five sections:

• A brief review of steady state fundamental
• Basic water hammer equations
• Examples of water hammer in fluid filled systems
• Examples of condensate induced water hammer
• Pipe stresses due to water hammer

Technical Tutorial II
Failure Analysis of Engineering Equipment
Tuesday July 24, 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM, in REGENCY EAST #1
Michiel P. Brongers, CC Technologies, Inc.

This tutorial provides an overview of the failure analysis of engineering equipment. The topics covered include collection of background information, collection and preservation of evidence, investigative techniques, laboratory and metallurgical examination, design review, stress analysis, fracture mechanics, and root-cause analysis.

Technical Tutorial III
Impulsively Loaded Vessels
Thursday July 26, 8:30 AM - 12:15 PM, in REGENCY EAST #1
Robert E. Nickell, Chair, TG Impulsively Loaded Vessels

This tutorial will cover the development of special design rules for impulsively loaded vessels per Section VIII, Division 3 of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, together with other special considerations that apply to materials, design, fabrication, examination, and testing of these vessels.