Pipeline Metal Loss Evaluations per API 579 Fitness-For-Service Rules
This webinar demonstrates how API 579 can be used for fitness-for-service (FFS) of pipeline damage.
Evaluating Large Aboveground Storage Tanks Subject to Seismic Loading
This webinar covers the basics of API 650 and API 620 seismic design requirements, a simplified approach to evaluate tanks subject to seismic loading, the derivation of an equivalent static FEA-based approach for evaluating tanks subject to seismic loading, an overview of different method for performing computational explicit dynamic analyses, a brief summary of how to establish site-specific seismic ground accelerations based on geotechnical soil testing data, and a detailed overview of smooth particle hydrodynamic (SPH) analysis techniques for simulating fluid sloshing behavior in an FEA.
Inspection for FFS & FFS for Inspection
This webinar provides an overview of fitness-for-service (FFS), typical FFS inspection data requirements and damage characterization, data issues commonly encountered during FFS evaluations, a case study regarding the impact of inspection data on FFS evaluations, advice on how to deal with data uncertainty in FFS evaluations, and a case study regarding proactive FFS to optimize future inspections.
