Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment: Needs and Provisions

REGULATORY METHODS
A Comment on the Requirements for Structural Integrity Assessment Methodologies — A. R. DOWLING and P. E. J. FLEWITT
Development of Safety Case for Lamellar Tearing Defects in Primary Pressure Circuit Nozzles — B. D. DANIELS and A. M. PENNICK
Sustainability, Risk and Regulation — R. K. PENNY
Structural Integrity Nuclear Safety Research Priorities at the UK and European Level: a UK Regulatory View — A. MILLER
The Integration of Safety Cases and Engineering Design — M. JAGGER and C. PICKER
Professional Responsibility in Engineering (Keynote) — B. TOMKINS and I. HOWARD

INSPECTION
Non Destructive Testing; The First Step in Maintaining Structural Integrity — H. BAINBRIDGE
The Use of Risk Assessment in the Management of Stress Corrosion Cracking — S. T. ADAIR and M. L. HOLLAND
The Effects of Service Lifetime and Wear on the Residual Stress in Railway Rails — J. KELLEHER and others
Remote Monitoring of Structural Integrity at High Temperature — S. TU and N. LUO

LIFE MANAGEMENT
The Problems with Mixed Gas — G. HUGHES
Climatic Risks with Impact on the overhead Electric Lines from Eastern Regions of Romania — D. FRUMESELU
A Comparison of Methods Applied for Fault Diagnosis of Electro Hydraulic Systems — Z. SHI and J. WANG
Safety, Reliability and Integrity: a Case Study Based Illustration of Project Needs from Preconception to Decommissioning — L. BJORKEGREN and others
Critical Assessment of the Role of Cathodic Protection in Pipeline Integrity and Reliability — S. A. SHIPILOV
The Boiler Life Management (BLM) Model in the Belgian Power Industry — M. EYCKMANS and J.-P. BARTHELEMI

PROVISION
Tools and Methods for Structural Integrity Assessment (Keynote) — I. LE MAY and R. SESHADRI

MODELLING
An Integrated Technique for Modelling Creep-Fatigue Life of Components and Structures — X. LIN and others
Crack Initiation Life Predictions for Featured Specimens Based on the Chaboche Deformation Model — H. SCHLUMS and others
A Parametric Study of Life Estimation for Typical Branched Pipes Under Creep Conditions — T. H. HYDE and others

MATERIALS (1)
Crack-Healing Behaviour of S13N4 Ceramics During Service and Resultant Fatigue Strength in the Healed Condition (1000ºC–1200ºC, In Air) — K. ANDO and others
An Estimation to Plastic Limit Load of Cracked Equal-Diameter Welded Piping Branch Junctions under Internal Pressure — F. XUAN and others
Structural Integrity Methods, Where next? (Keynote) — R. E. DOLBY and C. S. WIESNER

TOOLS AND METHODS
High Temperature Defect Assessment Procedures — B. DOGAN
Advances in Field and Laboratory Tools for Failure Analysis — C. BAGNALL and J. GOVER Jr
A Demonstration on Model-Based Fault Diagnosis of a Control Process — J. WANG and Z. SHI
The Use of FEAT in Support of Structural Integrity Assessments — C. D. ELCOATE and J. R. NOYCE

MATERIALS (2)
Material Property Experiment of the Specimen from a Hydrogenation Reactor after about 10⁵H Service — H. XU and others
Material Property Comparison of 12Cr1MoV with 10CrMo910 after 21 Years Service as Main Steam Piping — H. XU and others
Mean Stress Effect on High Temperature Low Cycle Fatigue of a Single Crystal Alloy — D. S. TCHANKOV and others

FRACTURE MECHANICS
Miniature Specimen Fracture Toughness Testing and Analysis — D. M. SHUTER and others
The Local approach in Structural Integrity Assessments: Transforming its Potential into an Invaluable Engineering Tool — S. R. BORDET and others
Engineering Assessment of Tear Cracks in Large-Scale Panels From Thin-Sheet Aluminium — V. P. NAUMENKO and G. S. VOLKOV
The Development of a Compact Specimen to Study the Influence of Residual Stresses in Fracture — A. H. SHERRY and others
Computational Modelling and Analysis of Structural Crack Arrest Behaviour — Y. TKACH and F. M. BURDEKIN
A Statistical Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Crack Path Deviations in Strength Mis-Matched Joints — B. BEZENSEK and J. W. HANCOCK