Piping Handbook

Rating:
Summary: poor book
Review: 7th edition(oct 14,1999) by mohinder l. nayyar ÁÖ¼Ò '뱸±¤¿ª½Ã 'Þ¼­±¸ ¿ë»êµ¿ 466-4 ¹é¾Ï¿ø·ë 303È£ ÀüÈ­ [phone]

Rating:
Summary: piping handbook
Review: 7th edition(oct 14,1999) by mohinder l. nayyar ÁÖ¼Ò '뱸±¤¿ª½Ã 'Þ¼­±¸ ¿ë»êµ¿ 466-4 ¹é¾Ï¿ø·ë 303È£ ÀüÈ­ [phone]

Rating:
Summary: poor book
Review: I Buy this book because needed references, general conditions and good practice to solve practical problems of pipes. However I meet with a tangled book, of little clarity and that in general it doesn't embrace the practical topics well referring a lot to the existent norms. Anyway it serves like support to the different norms to go developing a project but alone as reference and in any case like a book of easy access to solve problems on site or the day to day problems.

Rating:
Summary: An annoying verbiage
Review: I was interesting in buying a professional publication relative to piping engineering and, by chance, I was able to borrow this book from a technical library before doing what can not be undone.

How disappointing !
An annoying verbiage prevails over pages after pages.
Few design guidelines, engineering calculations and good practice recommendations.
For instance, the section dealing with the water hammer phenomenon does not contain any equation !
Supports, insulation, valves, plastic and composite materials, ... are covered in far too general terms.
Even the reduced "dictionary alike" paper format leads to a bulky and difficult to read book where chapters are broken down in dozens of pages.

This book must be viewed as a general introduction to piping design engineering but definitively not as a practical reference for day-to-day design issues.