... scans). Finally, concrete opportunities to improve the robustness, speed and accuracy of the methodology are addressed, which will be tackled in a follow-up project funded within PRCI. FEA NDE defect ECA element deletion CRACK DRIVING FORCE CALCULATION IN ARBITRARILY SHAPED DEFECTS BASED...

... Engineering critical assessment ECA failure assessment diagram FAD defect assessment pipeline girth welds State-of-the-art Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA) employs the methodology of the Failure Assessment Diagram (FAD) for stress-based design. Current versions of FADs used...

... 10 07 2009 Stress analysis is a prerequisite of Engineering Critical Analysis (ECA) of pipeline girth welds in new constructions. Such analysis is required in pipe construction standards, such as API Standard 1104 Appendix A. However no specific procedures of stress analysis...

... 10 12 2008 Buried defects, such as lack-of-sidewall fusion defects, are some of the most commonly occurring defects in mechanized girth welds. Although some of the existing ECA (Engineering Critical Assessment) procedures permit the assessment of the significance of buried defects...

... are the most relevant to modern linepipes and their welds. ECA fitness-for-service constraint fracture mechanics ductile fracture brittle fracture pipeline Copyright © 2004 by ASME Proceedings of IPC2004 5th International Pipeline Conference 2004 Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-October 8...

... experimental test data. Pipeline girth weld ECA fitness-for-service defect acceptance criteria plastic collapse 1 Copyright © 2006 by ASME Proceedings of IPC2006 6th International Pipeline Conference 2006 Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 25- 29, 2006 IPC2006-10491 A TIERED APPROACH TO GIRTH...