Title: Nondestructive evaluation of utilities and pipelines :
Authors: Prager, Martin.; Tilley, Richard M.; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.; United States.; United States.
Date: 1996
Publisher: SPIE,
Physical description: ix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language: English
Contents: NDE for utilities: maintaining reliability in a competitive environment / R. M. Tilley and C. R. Brett -- Interaction of NDE strategies with material performance knowledge in fitness for service and life assessment programs / M. Prager and L. Kaley -- NDE in the refining industry: developments and needs / F. T. Furillo, A. E. Wehrmeister and H. A. Wolf -- NDE for management of aging infrastructure at the Savannah River site / C. D. Cowfer and R. Ostrowski -- Progress toward regulatory acceptance of risk-informed inspection programs for nuclear power plants / O. F. Hedden and C. D. Cowfer -- Fully quantitative predictive maintenance/inspection planning optimization for the utility/plant components / D. A. Mauney -- Risk-based inspection of pressurizer surge lines / N. J. Shah and K. K. Dwivedy -- Concerns about seam-welded piping at elevated temperatures / J. R. Foulds, R. Viswanathan and R. M. Tilley -- Experience evaluating NDE methods and personnel for detection and characterization of damage to high-temperature piping / M. Prager, D. Sullivan and L. H. Bisbee -- Longitudinal seam weld characterization by focused ultrasonics / L. H. Bisbee and L. Nottingham -- Evaluation of oil and gas pipelines bedded in rivers / V. M. Petuchov, R. A. Achtyamov and O. G. Morozov -- Detection of cracks under cladding using magneto-optic imaging and rotating in-plane magnetization / G. L. Fitzpatrick, R. L. Skaugset and D. K. Thome [et al.] -- Acoustic emission for detection of process-related damage in pressure vessels and piping / M. Peacock -- Acoustic emission monitoring for inspection of seam-welded hot reheat piping in fossil power plants / J. M. Rodgers, B. C. Morgan and R. M. Tilley -- Planning and interpreting AE experiments to monitor crack growth at elevated temperatures / M. Prager -- Optical pipe-scanning system for sewers: RODIAS / W. Kampfer and W. Ziehl -- In-situ ultrasonic thickness measurement of underground water mains / M. Viens, D. Levesque and C.-K. Jen [et al.] -- Magnetic measurement of creep damage: modeling and measurement / M. J. Sablik and D. C. Jiles -- Guided wave inspection of chemical plant pipework / D. N. Alleyne, A. M. Lank and P. J. Mudge [et al.] -- Method for NDE of thermal embrittlement of duplex stainless steels / T. Goto, T. Naito and S. Kumano -- Use of ultrasonic arrays for piping inspection / R. S. Frankle -- Guided UT wave inspection of insulated feedwater piping using magnetostrictive sensors / J. W. Brophy and C. R. Brett -- Validation of a pulsed eddy current system for measuring wall thinning through insulation / C. R. Brett and J. A. de Raad -- Comparative study on two types of mode-sensitive neural networks for damage assessment / J. M. Gutierrez, C. Ferregut and R. A. Osegueda -- Classification of eddy current signals using fuzzy logic and neural networks / H. Ewald and M. Stieper -- Embeddable-sensor monitoring strategies for the infrastructure / R. A. Livingston -- Quantitative safety analysis using fracture mechanics and ultrasonic stress measurements / A. V. Clark, T. L. Anderson and M. G. Lozev [et al.] -- Evaluating technology for marine inspectors / K. A. Hansen -- Origin and evolution of NDE reference standards / K. Skeie and H. J. Ridder -- Prediction of crack generation / K. Taniuchi, J. Onodera and J. Onoue.
Subject headings (LCSH): Natural gas pipelines--Inspection--Congresses.; Nondestructive testing--Congresses.; Power-plants--Inspection--Congresses.; Public utilities--Testing.; Sewerage--Inspection--Congresses.