ETD Consulting is excited to announce the successful High Temperature Defect Assessment (HIDA-7) Conference, focused on Life/Crack Assessment and Failures in Industrial Structures operating at high temperatures. Held at Portsmouth University in May 2017, the conference featured informative papers. Edited versions of select papers are now published in the ‘Special Issue of Materials at High Temperature’ journal.
HIDA was originally the acronym for an EU Commission and Industry supported research project, led by Dr Ahmed Shibli of ETD, which aimed to develop a unified European High Temperature Defect Assessment procedure. The Brite-Euram HIDA project involved 11 organisations from 7 countries, with the effectiveness of the procedure developed being demonstrated using material models based on data generated and/or gathered on a number of CrMo(V), 9CrMoVNb and 17Cr12NiMo engineering steels. The original HIDA conference held at CEA (Saclay) in 1998 focused on the themes covered by the Brite-Euram project, and in particular topics concerned with crack growth and accurate assessment of the behaviour of high temperature plant components containing defects and operating under steady and/or cyclic loading conditions. The scope of subsequent HIDA conferences was extended to the consideration of aspects relating to life assessment and condition monitoring, integrity of repaired welds and the characteristics and performance-in-service of newer advanced martensitic steels such as P91 and P92.
The 22 papers included in MHT’s HIDA-7 Special Issue fall under the themes:
- Deformation and crack growth and their modelling;
- Life assessment and condition monitoring;
- Advanced martensitic 9/10%Cr steels;
To read the full-depth article from the special issue of materials at high temperatures magazine, please click here.
