Avoiding Unnecessary Repairs in Pipeline Girth Welds using the new BS7910 ECA Procedure

Launch 28 May 2012.
The proposed new version of BS7910 (Guide to methods for assessing the acceptability of flaws in metallic structures) to be published in 2012, will allow more detailed consideration of yield behaviour, residual stress distribution, weld strength overmatching, and crack tip constraint conditions than the current (2005) procedure. These new clauses will change the way that flaws can be assessed using the procedure, and any measures which allow the ECA procedure to permit larg

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