Structural integrity assessment

procedures for European industry

Fact Sheet
Project Information
Funded under
Grant agreement ID: BRPR950024 Specific research and technological development
programme in the field of industrial and materials
Start date End date technologies, 1994-1998
1 April 1996 31 March 1999
Total cost
€ 0,00
EU contribution
€ 0,00

Coordinated by
CORUS U.K. LTD
United Kingdom

Objective

Objectives and content:

In recent studies of the economic effects of fracture in America and Europe the total
loss to the gross economic product of advanced nations has been estimated to be
4%. This loss is not inevitable however and our understanding is such that given a
viable, universally applicable procedure this figure could be halved in 10 years. The
benefit will not be universally obtainable throughout all industries as some,
particularly those where safe operation is critical already apply structural integrity
management methods to optimise their efficient use of plant and equipment.
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Industries, which do not use such methods, would have a proportionately greater
benefit, although all industries will benefit from the identification of a universally
applicable integrity evaluation method. The aim of the proposed programme is to
develop such a procedure, relevant to all industrial sectors, by combining methods,
which have been available for a number of years and new analysis techniques.
Guidance cannot currently be provided in a number of areas and hence specific
research work will be required to allow analysis techniques to be developed.
The main areas of uncertainty will be studied in four major tasks; Treatment of Weld
Strength Mis-Match, Plastic Behaviour of Cracked Components, Reliability Based
Methods and the Treatment of Secondary Stresses. The new developments will be
combined with current knowledge to derive an analysis procedure, which will be
applicable for the evaluation of fracture risk in all components or structures. Software
will be written to facilitate the validation of the procedure, which will be done using
existing data from large scale tests and specific experimental studies when relevant
results are not available. Because of the wide scope of the proposal the consortium
has been carefully chosen to provide representation from extensive range of
industries. These cover: steel suppliers (British Steel and ILVA), offshore (Shell and
Exxon), nuclear (Nuclear Electric), chemical (Shell) and pressure vessel (Swedish
Plant). in addition a number of research organisations (TWI, GKSS, VTT, Institut de
Soudure) are involved as these have experience of specialist aspects c structural
integrity and, through their member base, links to a wide industrial range. The
University of Cantabria are independent fracture experts whilst MCS are specialist
software writers. The UK Health and Safety Executive are regulating body for safety
and failure risk assessments for all industries.

Fields of science
natural sciences  computer and information sciences  software

Programme(s)
FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of
industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)
0203 - Reliability and quality of materials and products

Call for proposal

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Data not available

Funding Scheme
CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator


CORUS U.K. LTD

Address
Moorgate
S60 3AR Rotherham
United Kingdom 

EU contribution
No data

Participants (15)

Commission of the European Communities

Netherlands
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
3,westerduinweg
1755 ZG Petten 

Other funding
No data

Exxon Chemical Ltd.

United Kingdom
EU contribution
€ 0,00
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Address
Cadland road
SO45 3NP Southampton 

Other funding
No data

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN

FORSCHUNG E.V.*
Germany
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
Woehlerstrasse 11
79108 Freiburg (in breisgau) 

Other funding
No data

GKSS - FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEESTHACHT GMBH

Germany
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
Max planck-strasse 1
21502 Geesthacht 
Other funding
No data

HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE

United Kingdom
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
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Southwark bridge road 2
SE1 9HS London 
Other funding
No data

Institut de Soudure
France
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
Zone industrielle 'les jonquières'
57365 Ennery 
Other funding
No data

MARINE COMPUTATION SERVICES LTD.

Ireland
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
Merchants road lismoyle house
90 Galway 
Other funding
No data

Nuclear Electric plc

United Kingdom
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
Barnett way barnwood
GL4 7RS Gloucester 
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Other funding
No data

SAQ Kontroll AB
Sweden
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address

100 29 Stockholm 

Other funding
No data

Shell Research BV
Netherlands
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
3,badhuisweg
1031 CM Amsterdam 

Other funding
No data

TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND

Finland
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
3,kemistintie 3
02044 Espoo 

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Other funding
No data

THE WELDING INSTITUTE

United Kingdom
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
Granta park, great abington
CB1 6AL Cambridge 
Other funding
No data

UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
Spain
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
S/n,avenida de los castros s/n
39005 Santander 
Other funding
No data

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

United Kingdom
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
Risley laboratory
WA3 6AT Warrington 

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Other funding
No data

Universiteit Gent
Belgium
EU contribution
€ 0,00
Address
41,sint-pietersnieuwstraat
9000 Gent 
Other funding
No data

Last update: 18 November 2002

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