Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment: Where Are We Today?

PEJ Flewitt, PF Heyes, J Sharples, and B Tomkins (eds)
2014

ISBN 978-0-9576730-2-1 | 393 PAGES | £75 (FESI MEMBERS 10% OFF)

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Papers presented at the UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity’s Twelfth International Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment (ESIA12) held at the Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, UK on May 28–29, 2013.

PLENARY INTRODUCTION
Challenges for Transport — R. Smith
Manufacturing for Marine and Aero Development — S. Garwood and others
Integration of Test and Analysis for Design and Monitoring of High Performance Structural Dynamics — D. Ewins
Integration of Inspection with Structural Integrity Assessment — K. Newton and P. Thayer
Challenges for the Regulator — A. Holt

INSPECTION
Improve Availability and Reduce Maintenance Spend whilst Maintaining Safety Using Asset Integrity Management and RBI — M. Anderson and A Knight
The Fracture Mechanisms of Main Cable Wires from the Forth Road Suspension — P. Roffey

INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT
Effects of Thermal Ageing on the Lattice Strains in a Single Phase Polycrystalline Material Measured by Neutron Diffraction — B. Chen and others
A New Micro-Structurally Informed Local Approach to Predict Fracture Toughness Under Low Constraint Conditions — M. Ford and others
Role of Substrate Curvature on the Integrity of Multi-Layered Thermal Barrier Coated Turbine Blades — D. Lui and P. E. J. Flewitt
Structural Integrity Assessment of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations under Slippage of the Grouted Joint — R. Kennedy and D. Knowles
Fatigue Analysis of a Pressure Vessel Welded Joint Using the Stress Integration Method Outlined in the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code VIII — A. Halfpenny and others
On-line Structural Damage Feature Extraction Based on Autoregressive Statistical Pattern of Time Series — M.-H. Hu and others

FRACTURE ANALYSIS
Integrity Assessment and Remediation of the Downcomer System in a Steelworks Blast Furnace — A. Bannister
Consideration of Elastic Follow-Up in Fracture Assessments of Combined Primary and Secondary Stresses — P. James and C. J. Madew
Fabrication and Characterisation of Metal-Encapsulated Regenerated Grating Strain Sensors for Structural Integrity Monitoring of High Temperature Components — Y. Tu and S-T. Tu
A Special Finite Element to Investigate Leak-before-Break — P. Gill

Plenary Session
Delamination Toughness Tests of DCB Specimens Composed of Woven Composites — L. Banks-Sills and others
Integrity of Engines on Land Transport — H.-H. Feng and others
Advances in Standards for Weld Flaw Assessments Using Fracture Mechanics — I. Hadley and H. G. Pisarski
The Status of High Temperature Design Codes and their Relationship to Engineering Structural Integrity — K. Nikbin
Teaching Structural Integrity to Engineers: an Integrated Approach — M. Fitzpatrick and others

Modelling
Multiscale Modelling of Hydrogen Embrittlement: Application to Industrial Problems — N. Winser and M. Mrovec
Bridging the Length and Time Scales in Material Modelling — A. Paxton
Multiscale Modelling of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Polycrystalline Materials — S. Jothi and others
Modelling and Simulation of Hydrogen Transport in Steel — O. Rott and R. Thiessen
The Significance of Residual Stress Using Monte-Carlo Simulations of Warm Pre-Stress — D. van Geldern

Materials Behaviour
Mechanical Behaviour and Damage of Ceramics-Tungsten Electron Power Substrates Tri-Dimensional Multilayers — C. Robert and others
Study on the Effects of Pulse Disturbance Wave in Hypersonic Flow Over a Blunt Cone — X. Tang and others
3D Cellular Automata Finite Element Method to Model Quasi-Brittle Fracture — L. Saucedo and T. J. Marrow