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Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic: Engineering for Piping Systems

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About The Course

Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) piping, or Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) piping, offers a cost-effective alternative to corrosion-prone metallic and non-reinforced thermoplastic pipes. However, designing FRP systems requires specialized knowledge due to fundamental differences from steel piping design.

This course provides comprehensive training in the fundamentals of designing and working with FRP piping systems. It equips you with a solid understanding of material properties and behaviors alongside their impact on designs, covers the engineering process, including pipe stress analysis, and offers numerous real-life field examples to illustrate critical aspects of FRP systems.

The course is comprised of 8 online video modules, with 1-year unlimited access to the course materials and discussion forum for ongoing knowledge refreshment in support of your projects.

  • Learning Mode: Self-Paced / E-Hybrid / Classroom
  • Level: Advanced
  • Modules: 8
  • Duration: 5 week course
  • Language: English
  • Access: 1 year - 24/7
  • PDH Hours Qualified Course
  • Video lectures led by experts
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Program Details

Welcome Notes

  1. Welcome & Your instructors

  2. Content Overview

  3. How to use this course

  4. Questions Forum

Module 1: FRP Materials and Manufacturing (Free Course Preview) | 2hr 7min

  1. FRP Materials and manufacturing

  2. Material specifications of FRP

  3. Manufacturing methods of GRP

  4. GRP Application

  5. Material limitations

  6. Market range

  7. Applications of GRP

A sample of the first module is available for free, so you can learn more about the teaching style and understand if the course fits your needs.

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Module 2: GRP Material and Strength Properties | 35min

  1. FRP Material properties

  2. Bi-axial materials

  3. Steel versus FRP

  4. Short-term and long-term strenght

  5. Qualification 

  6. GRP qualification tests

Module 3: GRP code: ISO 14692 | 1hr 21min

  1. GRP codes

  2. Overview of GRP codes 

  3. Philosophies in GRP standards

  4. Piping code ISO 14692

Module 4: Design and Analysis for FRP Systems | 1hr 33min

  1. Stress analysis of FRP systems

  2. Pipe stress analysis

  3. Constructing a stress envelope

  4. Reducing material stress

  5. Surge analysis and flange assessment

  6. Surge analysis for FRP piping

  7. Flange assessment

Module 5: Underground Application of FRP | 1hr 20min

  1. Buried FRP Piping

  2. Pipe stress analysis 

  3. Ring strenght calculations 

Module 6: FRP Failure Theory & Product Qualification | 1hr 18min

  1. Material failure theories

  2. GRP material strength 

  3. Failure criteria

  4. Ultimate Elastic Wall Stress

  5. Material qualification

  6. Full qualification

  7. Regression

  8. 1000 hrs survival test

Module 7: FRP Piping Failure Case Studies | 1hr

  1. FRP failure

  2. Longitudinal vs. circumferential cracks

  3. Joint strength and failure in FRP

  4. Joint strength and failure

  5. Flange failure

  6. Failure due to design errors

  7. Failure miscellaneous

Module 8: Pipe stress analysis | 1hr 21min

  1. Introduction to Fiberglass engineering

  2. Introduction to Modeling Session

  3. Agenda to Fiberglass engineering

  4. Configuration editor in Caesar II

  5. Special execution Parameters

  6. Pipe vendor Engineering Guide Data

  7. Material Properties Input

  8. Pipe vendor Engineering Guide Proces

  9. Pipe Stiffness Parameter Input

  10. Stress Envelope Parameter Input

  11. Pipe vendor input Hydrostatic Design Stress

  12. Long-term Axial and Hoop Strength input

  13. Modeling of Fittings

  14. Pipe Support Span

  15. Load case Set-up in ISO 14692

  16. Interpretation of Results

  17. Flange Check in Caesar II

  18. Euler buckling for Aboveground Pipes

  19. Shell Buckling

Final Notes

  1. Course evaluation survey

  2. Your Personal Certificate

  3. Related resources

Self-PacedThis course is self-paced and is not subject to specific dates. The course contains 8 modules with a total of 9.5 hours of content which can be performed at your own pace. A personal certificate will be provided to you if you finish the course within the first month after purchase. This incentive aims to motivate you to perform the course on time, thereby improving your learning curve.E-HybridThis course is privately scheduled for teams of a minimum of 4 people. A drip feed of modules becomes available to the participants throughout the program. The drip schedule aims to provide consistency to your learning experience and is designed to maintain participant concentration and provide adequate time to perform exercises between live instructor sessions where the instructor may answer any questions about the topic.This course type is also available for a private schedule for teams of a minimum of 4 people.This course is scheduled over 3 work days.

This course is available in self-paced, hybrid, and classroom formats.

Prerequisites and level

  • No experience with FRP is required,
  • A basic understanding of (steel) piping systems is beneficial.
  • Level: Advanced

Intended For

This course is designed for:

  • Professionals involved with the design and realization of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic piping systems,
  • Pipe stress engineers that work with FRP systems,
  • People who have experience with steel piping systems and get involved with FRP systems.  

Access to the self-paced course

After your purchase is confirmed you receive an account to the EngineeringTrainer online learning portal, where you can find the course in your dashboard. After opening the course you will be guided step-by-step through the different modules. You receive 1-year unlimited access to the course, allowing for the repetition of modules as desired.

Learn by doing

The self-paced and E-hybrid courses are mainly based on video content: video lectures and video software demonstrations. English subtitles are available and videos can be viewed as many times as desired. The video lectures help you to grasp the important technical concepts and in the video demonstrations the instructor uses the software and discusses all the steps and actions. You are recommended to follow the steps of the instructor in the software to optimize your learning curve.

The classroom course is performed in person either on-site or in the Dynaflow Research Group office located in Rijswijk, The Netherlands. This course enables you to be face-to-face with the instructors with live examples provided. This course also provides all participants with a 1-year access to the self-paced course.

Exercises & software models associated with the content are available for download. 

Participants of the self-paced and E-hybrid courses receive a personal digital certificate if they meet the following requirements:

  • Completion of each course module
  • Filling in the course evaluation survey

Participants of the classroom course receive a personal physical certificate upon the completion of the course.

Example certificate:

After this course, participants are expected to:

  • Have a fundamental understanding of the material and its behavior.
  • Are familiar with the design of FRP pipes and joints.
  • Know methods for manufacturing fiberglass products and their (dis)advantages.
  • Understand the qualification process for FRP products as per the ISO 14692,
  • Have a solid understanding of the design process and stress analysis of FRP systems.
  • Know the differences between steel and FRP and how this impacts pipe stress analysis.
  • Have seen and discussed a multitude of real-life failures.

  • Video lectures

  • Video demonstrations

  • Discussions forum with other participants & instructor

The majority of training material are videos. These are not available for download, but can be accessed directly with your account on the portal.

You receive 1-year unlimited access to the course. This allows you to perform modules again when you need to refresh knowledge for your work projects.

We encourage participants to submit feedback and questions in the Discussions Forum of the course. These are either answered directly in the forum or form the basis for new videos that are added to the online course on a regular basis.

Participants receive 1-year unlimited access to the course including new videos that are added during this year. Participants receive an email notification upon addition of new course videos.

No technical software is used in this course.

If your computer and internet connection is able to play videos online (YouTube) you will be able to follow the course. Note that almost all browsers are supported, except for Internet Explorer.

Yes, this course qualifies for PDH hours as per the NCEES CPC Guidelines.

Selected Course Format

Self-paced

€ 800 /user
  • Self-learning modules
  • Immediate module access
  • Online discussion forum
  • 1-year access
  • Live sessions with instructor
  • For individual learning
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E-Hybrid

€ 1125 /user
  • Drip scheduled self-learning modules
  • Online discussion forum
  • 1-year access
  • Live sessions with instructor
  • For teams of minimum 4 people
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Classroom

Price on request
  • Face-to-face with instructors
  • On-site or in Rijswijk
  • Printed course materials
  • Lunch included
  • 1-year access to self-paced course
  • For teams of minimum 4 people
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