Creep life assessments and creep pips
Creep life assessments and creep pips
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Does anyone have much experience with the above topic? Specifically, has anyone run successful life assessment programs at their plants based on creep pip measurements on pipework? Concerned about the quality of the measurements, given how easily the tips may be damaged and how accurate the readings need to be.
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RE: Creep life assessments and creep pips
Just too many variables both from a material and operating standpoint when you think of the linear feet of pipe and number of strain gages that would be required to really look for the onset of creep damage before the pipe fails at a location which had no monitoring.
I would consider acoustic emission monitoring for creep damage before creep pip measurements.