ASME B31.3 PDF | Process Piping | Calgary, AB
Responding to evident need and at the request of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Standards Association initiated Project B31 in March 1926, with ASME as sole administrative sponsor. The breadth of the field involved required that membership of the Sectional Committee be drawn from some 40 engineering societies, industries, government bureaus, institutes, and trade associations. Initial publication in 1935 was as the American Tentative Standard Code