Software

A software tool for the assessment of cracks/defects in high and low temperature plants developed in collaboration with European industry. The software combines widely accepted fracture assessment procedures (BS 7910, BS 5500, R6, R5 and RCCMR-A16) with our extensive practical field experience. It contains 17 common component geometries from power and process plants. The software includes creep and fatigue crack growth data for a wide range of plant materials used in pressure vessels, piping, and turbines. Crucially, these data include base metals, welds and HAZs.

This tool provides plant engineers the ability to compare the microstructure of in-service components with a huge compendium of reference microstructures. e-Atlas consists of 10,000 replicas of the commonly used steels in the power and petrochemical industry and their relationship with the material life as a function of operating time and temperature.

e-Lifing is a compendium of lifing assessment procedures developed with our industrial partners in Japan. It includes lifing assessment procedures for components without pre-existing defects, components with manufacturing or service induced defects/cracks; cracks, weld repairs, miniature specimen testing etc.

For systemic life assessment, it is necessary to set up a precise and detailed life evaluation system with organised analytical/ theoretical calculational approach and data from non- destructive testing. BLAS is a boiler pressure-part component life assessment software used for creep, fatigue, creep-fatigue and combined creep-corrosion life assessments.