• Increase Your Skill Level Working With COMPRESS
  Gain hands-on experience working with industry’s leading vessel and exchanger design software. Upon seminar completion you will be able to design and rate vessels with ease. Required software and hardware will be provided. Feel free to bring your own laptop to work on if you prefer.
• Be Trained Directly by Codeware
  As Codeware Support Engineers, both of our instructors are uniquely positioned to well prepare course participants to work with COMPRESS in industry. As a senior Codeware Support Engineer, Tom E. Barsh P.E. has extensive experience working with COMPRESS and is a leading expert. With over 25 years of engineering experience, Don Kurle P.E. has an in-depth knowledge of the ASME Code.
• Earn CEUs to Meet Your P.E. Continuing Education Requirement
  Codeware Inc. has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Codeware, Inc. is authorized by IACET to offer 1.6 CEUs for this program.

Performing Software Operations Effectively

• Installation and setup, this includes setting defaults and user preferences
• Creating new designs and opening existing files
• Using screen elements and interacting with COMPRESS’ 3D models
• Generating, printing and exporting customized design reports
• Receiving software updates

Designing Horizontal and Vertical Vessels With:

• Stiffening rings, long weld necks, conical transitions and boots and domes
• Tangential, tilted and hillside nozzles considering re-padding and limit of reinforcement
• Skirt, saddle, leg, lug and ring girder supports
• Optimal shell thickness
• ANSI and ASME Appendix 2 flanges
• Supports, shell thickness and ASME B16.5/B16.47 flanges considering wind and seismic external loads
• External attachments including clips, ladders, platforms, piping, insulation and internal lining
• Maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP)
• Minimal design metal temperature (MDMT)
• Metallurgy – brittle fracture, impact testing and UCS-66
• Internal and external pressure taken into account
• Zick analysis for saddle-supported vessels
• WRC-107 analysis for loads on nozzles, vessel support lugs, and other attachments

This course is designed for individuals with little prior experience working with COMPRESS. To benefit most from this seminar, a familiarity with the ASME Code is recommended. If you wish to increase your Code familiarity before participating in this seminar we offer ASME VIII-1 training seminars.

To keep class sizes small, enrollment is limited. Reserve your seat by completing our online registration form today!

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