Course description
Fracture mechanics is essential for assessing the integrity, safety and remaining life of pressure equipment, piping, tanks and structural components containing crack-like flaws, weld defects, fatigue damage, corrosion-related indications or creep degradation.
This 5-day online course provides a practical approach to Fitness-for-Service assessment and fracture mechanics, with a strong focus on API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 and comparison with BS 7910. Participantswill learn how to connect inspection findings, flaw type, damage mechanism, operating conditions and assessment level to support defensible run, repair, replace, rerate or monitor decisions.
The course covers the full assessment path from flaw characterisation and Level 1 screening to Level 2/3 assessment logic, stress classification, stress intensity factors and Failure Assessment Diagram (FAD) evaluation. It also addresses leak-before-break, crack growth, remaining life, inspection interval planning, creep and creep-fatigue interaction.
Through practical examples, calculation workshops and case studies, participants will gain the knowledge needed to support asset integrity management, life extension, risk-based inspection and safe continued operation of critical industrial assets.
