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. Tutorials are scheduled during regular conference session blocks. Registration for the free workshops is accomplished through the link included below.

Workshops

Rapid Structural Analysis for Pressure Vessel Design
Sunday July 27, 9:00 AM - 11:30 PM, Chicago Ballroom D
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 27, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Chicago Ballroom D
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 2008 PVP conference.

Special Tutorial
The Engineer in the Witness Chair
Sunday, July 27, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Chicago Ballroom E
Dr. Dennis K. Williams, Sharoden Engineering Consultants

This presentation is intended to introduce the practicing consultant and corporate engineering specialist to the particulars of providing "expert witness" testimony in the courtroom. The role of the engineer in the litigation process is covered from initial client contact to a day in the witness chair. Topics include the engineer's investigation, the importance of the discovery process, depositions, and the engineering expert witness at trial. Case studies, including those involving piping components and ASME B&PV Code vessels, will be utilized.

Technical Tutorial I
Recent Developments in Analysis and Design of Piping For Seismic Loads
Monday July 28, 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM, Chicago Ballroom E
Abhinav Gupta & Vernon C. Matzen, North Carolina State University

This tutorial is intended for engineers working in piping analysis and design. The emphasis will be modeling, analysis, and design for seismic loads. The tutorial will be divided into four main categories:

• Fundamental concepts in structural dynamics and modeling
• Recent developments in response spectrum method for seismic analysis of piping
• Background and recent developments in the definition of B2 Stress Indices for piping components
• ASME Initiative on reliability-based load and resistance factor design for piping components. Each topic will include representative examples for understanding the basic concepts and case studies from actual power plant applications.

Technical Tutorial II
Applications of the ASME Code to Radioactive Materials Packaging
Tuesday, July 29, 2:00 pm - 5:45 pm, Chicago Ballroom E
Allen C. Smith, Savannah River National Laboratory and Y.Y. Liu, Argonne National Laboratory

The tutorial will familiarize the participants with the functional and regulatory requirements for radioactive materials packages. It will show how the regulations and practical considerations result in imposition of the ASME Code for package design and fabrication. The following topics will be covered:

• Relationship between regulatory requirements and applicable Code Sections
• The Code Sections typically employed in design and fabrication of packaging
• The relationship of the Code to other functional requirements
• Recommended practices for regulatory testing of packages.

Technical Tutorial III
Automated Ultrasonic Testing vs. Radiography (AUT vs. RT)
Thursday, July 31, 8:30 am - 12:15 pm, Chicago Ballroom E
Michael Moles, Olympus NDT Canada

This seminar overviews the developments in automated ultrasonics (AUT), and compares AUT with radiography (RT) for weld inspections. The advantages - and limitations - of AUT are described, including a brief mention of the economics of switching from RT to AUT. Though radiography is the current technology in many cases, it has major limitations on safety, environment, and licensing, plus limited capability for detecting critical planar defects. In contrast, AUT has high Probability of Detection of critical planar defects, plus the capability of sizing defects. In particular, the capability of AUT to size defects vertically permits the use of Engineering Critical Assessment, which is more beneficial than workmanship criteria.