Vibration, Fatigue, and Risk-Based Inspection

Presenters: Michael F.P. Bifano, Ph.D., P.E. and R. Branden Stucky

Vibration in industrial equipment and facilities may lead to piping degradation, failure, loss of production, or safety issues. Oftentimes it is difficult to determine whether the vibration is acceptable or if it requires immediate attention. Standard risk-based inspection (RBI) ranks each asset based on its risk and then uses that list to prioritize future inspections. However, most risk models don’t have a methodology to account for the effects of vibration and fatigue on piping.  E²G has developed vibration RBI (VRBI), a novel approach to determining the risk of failure for vibration-specific damage mechanisms. Michael Bifano and Branden Stucky discussed how VRBI builds upon E²G’s extensive RBI experience to proactively identify risk on a facility-wide scale. 

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