- Plant Integrity Management Training
- New Service: TWI Approach to Assured Availability
- A model seminar
- To Asia with Structural Integrity
- 2008 Arata Prize
Plant Integrity Management Training
In September 2008 TWI's Asset Integrity Management department ran another successful plant integrity management training course. TWI offers a two week suite of four courses that delegates can attend either as a block or individually. The courses are aimed at training plant engineers to better manage their assets using the most appropriate and cost effective integrity assessment techniques. More than 50 delegates from 10 different countries travelled to TWI to attend courses on Damage Mechanism Assessment (based on API RP 571), Risk-Based Inspection (based on API RP 580 and 581), Fitness-for-Service (based on API 579-1/ASME FFS-1) and Repair of Pressure Equipment and Piping. In addition to the courses held in the UK TWI regularly offers open and in-house training courses around the world. The next suite of plant integrity management training courses is planned for January 2009, to be held at TWI's offices in Dubai. For the latest course information contact aim@twi.co.uk.
New Service: TWI Approach to Assured Availability
TWI's Asset Integrity Management group now offers a unique service to new asset ventures. The service aims to ensure new asset ventures deliver target productivity by ensuring fabrication is satisfactory and that in-service plant integrity management is appropriate and optimised.
The service centres around providing an independent, third party review of both the fabrication plans of the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts and a risk-based review of the potential availability limiting damage mechanisms with a view to optimising in-service inspection, maintenance and operation plans for the built assets.
For more information, please read our full brochure here.
A model seminar
| Keynote speaker: Dr Helena Polezhayeva (Lloyd's Register) |
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| Keynote speaker: Dr Bob Ainsworth (British Energy) |
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In July 2008, TWI's Numerical Modelling Section held a seminar at its headquarters in Cambridge on the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA). The seminar attracted over 70 attendees from a broad range of companies, showing that the rising use of FEA in engineering is one of today's hot topics and that there is a need in industry for detailed discussions and development in this area.
The seminar was structured in three sessions:
- 1) Fatigue
- 2) Fracture
- 3) Residual Stresses and Distortion
TWI was very pleased to welcome Dr Helena Polezhayeva (Lloyd's Register) and Dr Bob Ainsworth (British Energy) as keynote speakers for the day. Helena gave a presentation on the use of FEA for design in the shipping industry and Bob gave presentations on the use of FEA in the power industry and on residual stresses.
The presentations are available to delegates and as a membership benefit, all Industrial Members are welcome to download them from the following link: download.
As TWI is keen to promote best practice FEA for structural integrity, we would like to hear from you! Your feedback and ideas are highly appreciated, so please get in touch if you have any further comments about possible future subjects to cover in another seminar on this topic or any other modelling related enquiries via nmo@twi.co.uk.
To Asia with Structural Integrity
Seminars in Japan and China on Structural Integrity
Japanese Seminar:
TWI's Annual Japanese Seminar is long established and a fixed date in the calendar of our Members in Japan since 1989. This year the seminar will take place on the 7 October 2008 at the British Embassy in Tokyo and focus on structural
integrity topics such as: fatigue, fracture, modelling, distortion, residual stresses and risk based inspection. Please click here to register online or contact our Japanese agent, UK Dodwell,
directly for further details:
Telephone/Telefax No: +81 3 5826 7375
e-mail: dodwell@d1.dion.ne.jp.
Chinese Seminar:
A week later, on the 14 October 2008, we will be running a similar seminar at the Jiaotong University in Shanghai which will be the first event of this kind organised by TWI in China. We are very much looking forward to this exciting
opportunity and to seeing many of our Chinese business partners there.
Please contact our China office for event and registration details:
Telephone: +86(0)10 8570 3255
Fax: +86(0)10 85703625
E-mail: enquiries@twichina.com.
2008 Arata Prize
Steve Maddox has won the premier award of the International Institute of Welding (IIW): the Arata Prize. This award is presented 'to a person who has realised outstanding technical achievements in welding science and allied areas, which have been recognised as a very great contribution to the progress of welding engineering and related fields.' Steve has made outstanding contributions to the objectives of IIW by chairing the very successful Commission XIII (Fatigue of Welded Components and Structures) from 1989 to 2006 and has thereby facilitated the knowledge exchange and networking of hundreds of experts and practitioners.
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