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International Conference on Assuring It's Safe : integrating structural integrity, inspection, and monitoring into safety and risk assessment, 18-19 May, 1998, Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh, UK

organized by the Nuclear Energy Committee and the Pressure Systems Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

(IMechE conference transactions, 1998-6)

Professional Engineering Publishing for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1998

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Assuring it's safe

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The papers in this text focus on the integration of analytical techniques, inspection and monitoring in making the safety case throughout the life of the plant.

Table of Contents

  • Industrial perspectives on assuring its safe
  • managing an integrity assurance organization
  • a structured approach to structural integrity safety arguments. The successful preparation of safety cases: assuring the safety of railways inearthquake zones
  • probalistic and deterministic assessment for safety case of a shiplift structure
  • the API methodology for risk-based inspection (RBI) analysis for the pertoleum and pertochemical industry
  • the use of complex finite element modles in the demonstration of low probability of structural failure for use in nuclear reactor safety cases
  • source path approach to process safety case production. Materials issues in safety cases: the management of weld cracking in high-temperature CrMoV pipework systems
  • an overview of the materials issues relating to the continued operation of the Magnox steel reactor presure vessels
  • a review of reheat cracking in British Energy's AGRs and the safety case strategy to address this threat. Inspection techniques -1: quality and reliability through NDT
  • inspection - getting it right!
  • European network for inspection qualification - status report. Structural analysis - 1: the NESC project - networking towards safer components
  • limit load and stability analysis of 500 Mwe PHT elbow with throughwall cracks for leak-before-break qualifications
  • the buckling of a tube under external pressure. Legislative requirements: an overview of European product and user legislation
  • managment of the nuclear safety case. Inspection techniques - II: periodic inspections of heavy-guage boiler drums in Poland
  • qualification of remote automated ultrasonic inpection of austenitic pipe weld
  • qualification of the in-service inspection of three swedish BWRs
  • risk-informed inspection of the Browns Ferry boiling water reactor. Structural analysis - II: part-through crack growth using two degree of freedom
  • thermal modelling for structural integrity
  • finite element modelling of rehaet cracking initiation in austenitic welments. safety cases and risk assessment
  • operational safety at magnox Electric's nucler power plants
  • the risk-regulating process for maximising return from chemical plant pressure equipment assets by integration of risk-regulating integrity assessments, risk-limiting inspection, plan and related human factors
  • risk-based methods and the ASME handbook
  • the role of expert judgement in the assurance of structural reliability
  • risk-based justification for operation of a corroded main oil line
  • safety cases to support integrated systems
  • an engineering insurer's perpsective on harnessing risk-based philosophies
  • management of major accident hazard pipelines
  • maintenance optimization in the ASME inspection planning framework.

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