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Stress Engineering is hosting a forum on high temperature life assessment, focusing on creep testing for remnant life assessment and methodology. The techniques for accelerated remnant life testing are well known in broad terms, but ensuring accurate results in reasonable timescales requires specialized methods not generally available in the open literature.
Using the results for plant life assessment is well understood in principle, but there remain a number of complexities that must be addressed to obtain convincing predictions for in-service plants (before the results can be reliably applied to equipment.) These complexities include, for example, (but are not limited to,) welds (particularly dissimilar metal welds), statistics, wastage in service, cycling and fouling. Presentations will be given by industry experts relating plant experiences and how they have solved some of these issues.
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