Structural integrity assessment: How safe is it?
28 Marca 2000 - 28 Marca 2000
A seminar to address the safety of structural integrity assessment is being hosted by the Joint Research Centre's Institute for Advanced Materials and the UK Health and Safety Executive on 27 and 28 March 2000 in Paris.
The International Network for Evaluating Structural Components (NESC) will present the findings of the NESC-1 spinning cylinder study, designed to evaluate the 'integrity' approach to structural integrity assessment of industrial plants containing, or suspected to contain, defects.
The organisers hope the meeting will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of results, conclusions and recommendations gained from a six year international collaboration.
'While the primary objectives are clearly targeted on nuclear applications, the knowledge gained is also applicable to areas where structural integrity assessment requires an interdisciplinary input from non-destructive inspection, materials properties and stress and fracture analyses. It is therefore highly relevant for many non-nuclear industries including fossil fuel; power generation plants, petrochemical installations, chemical processing plants and large steel structures,' say the event organisers.
For further information, please contact:
European Commission
Joint Research Centre
Institute for Advanced Materials
Professor Roger C. Hurst
P.O. Box 2
1755 ZG Petten
The Netherlands
Tel. +31-224-565475; Fax +31-224-561568
E-mail: hurst@jrc.nl
The International Network for Evaluating Structural Components (NESC) will present the findings of the NESC-1 spinning cylinder study, designed to evaluate the 'integrity' approach to structural integrity assessment of industrial plants containing, or suspected to contain, defects.
The organisers hope the meeting will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of results, conclusions and recommendations gained from a six year international collaboration.
'While the primary objectives are clearly targeted on nuclear applications, the knowledge gained is also applicable to areas where structural integrity assessment requires an interdisciplinary input from non-destructive inspection, materials properties and stress and fracture analyses. It is therefore highly relevant for many non-nuclear industries including fossil fuel; power generation plants, petrochemical installations, chemical processing plants and large steel structures,' say the event organisers.
For further information, please contact:
European Commission
Joint Research Centre
Institute for Advanced Materials
Professor Roger C. Hurst
P.O. Box 2
1755 ZG Petten
The Netherlands
Tel. +31-224-565475; Fax +31-224-561568
E-mail: hurst@jrc.nl