New Developments In Pipe Design

The latest trends kept on adding new subjects and new versions of old subjects. At present,
Design, Analysis and Piping fall under the part of new subjects.

Design has made its entry a decade back into the core part of Mechanical Engineering and got
itself manipulated in different forms , for eg Computer Aided Design (CAD) is one of the most
familiar Technology these days.

Analysis is the technology used beyond design. Both Design and Analysis are interlinked in
actual industry. Analysis is the integral study of an object or a particular compound. In the latest
developments, there are a no of softwares available in the market to handle Computer Aided
Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Techniques.

After these advancements, today, there is one more wing from the branch which is "PIPING".

Within industry, piping is a system of pipes used to convey fluids (liquids and gases) from one
location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the efficient transport of
fluid.[1][2]

.Plumbing is a piping system that most people are familiar with, as it constitutes the form of fluid
transportation that is used to provide potable water and fuels to their homes and business.
Plumbing pipes also remove waste in the form of sewage, and allow venting of sewage gases to
the outdoors. Fire sprinkler systems also use piping, and may transport potable or nonpotable
water, or other fire-suppression fluids.

Piping also has many other industrial applications, which are crucial for moving raw and semi-
processed fluids for refining into more useful products. Some of the more exotic materials of
construction are titanium, chrome-moly and various other steel alloys.

Also, beyond these Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is one more advancement which also
has a bright future.Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is one of the branches of fluid
mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that
involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the millions of calculations required to
simulate the interaction of fluids and gases with the complex surfaces used in engineering. Even
with simplified equations and high-speed supercomputers, only approximate solutions can be
achieved in many cases. Ongoing research, however, may yield software that improves the
accuracy and speed of complex simulation scenarios such as transonic or turbulent flows. Initial
validation of such software is often performed using a wind tunnel with the final validation
coming in flight test.

Piping and CFD are the newer advancements which are not yet fully fledged in the industry and
they have a very bright future in the next decades.

By Rohit Sharma & Deepak Sharma