Fitness-for-service assessment is a multi-disciplinary engineering approach that is used to determine if equipment is fit to continue operation for some desired future period. The equipment may contain flaws, have sustained damage, or have aged so that it cannot be evaluated by use of the original construction codes. API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, which is jointly published by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and ASME, is a comprehensive consensus industry recommended practice that can be used to analyze, evaluate, and monitor equipment for continued operation. The main types of equipment covered by this standard are pressure vessels, piping, and tanks. This standard was updated in June 2007. Thus, this course is very timely.

Upon completion of this course you will be able to: 

• Analyze, evaluate, and monitor pressure vessels, piping, and tanks for continued operation 
•  Understand and apply background information on fitness-for-service assessment  
• Review in detail each of the main parts of the API/ASME standard, as well as the annexes 
• Solve example problems on the practical application of the techniques incorporated in API 579-1/ASME FFS-1.
  

Course Outline (Please click on this link to view the course outline)

*Participants are encouraged to bring specific problems of interest to them to discuss during the course.
This course is intended for engineers and engineering management engaged in the operation, design, analysis, and maintenance of plant facilities.

Emphasis and Applicability
This course emphasizes the practical application of a recently updated standard.

Completing this course will help participants understand and apply the API/ASME fitness-for-service standard in their daily work. The material presented in the course shows how the disciplines of stress analysis, materials engineering, and nondestructive inspection interact and apply to fitness-for-service assessment. The assessment methods apply to pressure vessels, piping, and tanks that are in service.

Special Features
The course includes an extensive set of notes to supplement the contents of the recommended practice, and the recommended practice contains numerous example problems that illustrate fitness-for-service assessment.