Improvements to the fracture assessment of welds using FITNET Fitness for Service assessment procedure

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 353-364

  Koçak, Mustafa ^a   Seib, Eduard ^a   Motarjemi, Afshin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TWI LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

13 Cr Supermartensitic steels; Al alloys; Electron Beam Weld; FITNET; Flaw Assessment; Laser Beam Weld; Mis Match; Overmatching; Residual Strength; SINTAP; Structural Integrity; Undermatching; Weld

Indexed keywords

FITNET; FRICTION STIR WELDING (FSW); HYBRID WELDING; SINTAP;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CRUDE PETROLEUM; FRICTION; LASER BEAMS; NATURAL GAS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; POWER GENERATION;

WELDS;

EID: 27744466197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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