Book excerpt: Annotation This volume of proceedings from the August 2002 conference consists of 26 technical papers from six sessions on the design and analysis of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, piping, and components. Among the topics are a structural evaluation of a piping system subject to thermal stratification, dynamic pipe stresses during water hammer, and fatigue life prediction for short dents in petroleum pipelines. Other topics include the design of ellipsoidal heads using elastic finite element analysis, vibration modes of spherical shells and containment vessels, and convergence of the axisymmetric Bessel function solution to the pipe strap anchor problem. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).