Mid Month Bulletin_79
Fitness for Service
The purpose of this Bulletin_79 is to give References to Resources on Fitness for Service.
Mid Month Bulletin No.79
15 November 2012
Bulletin_79 - , Inspection, Integrity Investigation, Evaluation, Assessment, European FITNET Procedures, Experience, Practices for Service and Repair, Training Courses, Examples, Advanced Stress Analysis, Aging Equipment Evaluation, Optimizing repair welding and much more...
How Long will it Still be Fit? |
Introduction
How can one determine whether an aging structural component is still fit for continuing service?
A multiple approach was developed, along years of experience, to investigate operating equipment.
A typical assessment may involve several engineering disciplines, and it requires data from a number of sources.
The purpose is to find in time telltale hints pointing to weak points likely to grow into failures.
The structures most exposed to this kind of aging, in the sense of growing old, are those subjected to time dependent mechanical properties.
First in importance is the Creep property, expressed as continued deformation depending on stress at given high temperatures.
Equipment designed to operate at elevated temperatures, like power generating equipment, is by definition in need of periodic monitoring.
Fatigue is described as a crack growing under repeated stress.
Also fatigue cracks, combined or not with creep deformations, must be monitored closely, in order to be repaired before failure.
Some of the published online resources referred here in this Bulletin_79, can be downloaded at no cost. To benefit from the information there are no shortcuts: one should dedicate to learning the necessary time.
The references published in this Bulletin_79 are selected to provide useful knowledge to our readers.
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Resources
Recent Advances in Fitness-for-Service Assessment (12 pages)http://www.ndt.net/article/mendt2007/papers/anderson.pdf
Fitness-for-Service Assessment of Welded Structures (9 pages)
From ASM Handbook Vol. 6 - Document Download
Price $30.00 - Member Price $24.00
ASM.
ANSI/API 510
Pressure Vessel Inspection Code:
In-Service Inspection, Rating, Repair, and Alteration
Edition: 9th
American Petroleum Institute / 01-Jun-2006 / 56 pages
Click to Order.
API 570
Piping Inspection Code:
In-service Inspection, Repair, and Alteration of Piping Systems
Edition: 3rd
American Petroleum Institute / 01-Nov-2009 / 65 pages
Click to Order.
API 579-1 / ASME FFS-1
Fitness-For-Service
Edition: 2nd
American Petroleum Institute / 05-Jun-2007 / 1128 pages
Click to Order.
API Std 653
Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction
Includes Addendum 1 (2010), Addendum 2 (2012)
Edition: 4th
American Petroleum Institute / 01-Apr-2009 / 152 pages
Click to Order.
API 579-1/ASME FFS-1
Fitness-For-Service Standard (Presentation - 20 slides)
[Click on "april182007ffspresentation" from Spring 2007:]
mycommittees.api.org/standards/cre/Meeting%20Materials/
An Advanced Approach to Fitness-For-Service (FFS) and Corrosion Growth Assessment
to Ensure
Effective Pipeline Integrity Management ( Presentation - 43 frames)
api.
What is The Pressure Vessel Research Council?
http://www.forengineers.org/pvrc/index.html
Fitness For Service
TWI1.
Overview of the European FITNET fitness-for-service procedure
TWI2.
Which procedures for fitness-for-service assessment: API 579 or BS 7910?
TWI3.
Welding and Fitness-For-Service of Weldolet® Fittings
TWI4.
Fitness for Service Assessment
Veritas.
FITNET fitness-for-service thematic network
http://www.eurofitnet.org/
Fitness for Service Evaluation
http://hghouston.com/our-services/fitness-for-service.aspx
Fitness for Service
http://www.stress.com/services.php?sid=5
Fitness-For-Service (FFS) (Training Course)
http://www.equityeng.com/training/api-university/fitness-service
Fitness-For-Service (Consulting)
http://www.equityeng.com/consulting-services/fitness-for-service
Fracture Mechanics and Fitness-for-Service Software
http://www.questintegrity.com/products/signal-fitness-for-service/
Fitness for Service
http://www.cap-eng.com/files/121_Fitness_for_Service_Brochure.pdf
PD395 - API 579-1/ASME FFS-1- Fitness-for Service
(Training & Development 3 Days Course)
ASME1.
Experiences With Controlled Deposition Welding
and Fitness for Service in Coke Drums
(Paper Abstract)
ASME2.
Fitness for Service
http://www.acusafe.com/Newsletter/Stories/0500News-Fitness.htm
Fit for service
http://weldingdesign.com/processes/products/wdf_66424/
Fitness-For-Service
http://www.fleetech.com/?/1739/1303/2273
Fitness for Service Examples
http://www.peesi.com/Fitness%20for%20Service%20Examples.htm
Advanced Stress Analysis
- Comprehensive Analysis for New Equipment Design
Equity.
Fitness-for-Service Evaluation of Bulkheads
http://www.aws.org/conferences/abstracts/2004/papers/2B.pdf
Current Practices in Pipeline Fitness for Service and Repair (Presentation - 28 frames)
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/rd/mtgs/062409/MikeRosenfeld.pdf
Valdez Marine Terminal Storage - Storage Tank Mechanical Integrity Investigation (45 pages)
http://www.pwsrcac.org/docs/d0040000.pdf
Evaluation of Aging Equipment for Continued Service (23 pages)
http://cap-eng.com/files/73_05558.pdf
Inspection service helps ensure welds are fit for purpose
Fabricator1.
Optimizing repair welding in oil refineries
Fabricator2.
Hydrotesting not required under API-653 procedure (4 pages)
http://tank-consultants.com/download_documents/OGJ_20000131.pdf
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