Being able to estimate the tensile strain capacity (TSC) of vintage girth welds is sometimes necessary in the integrity management of vintage pipelines. For instance, assessing the girth weld integrity could be a top priority after a confirmed…
This project provides an understanding of the impacts of misalignment on the integrity of girth welds and rational limits for misalignment for incorporation into existing standards. Two sets of recommendations were developed in this project: (1)…
This report is on a jointly funded project by DOE and PRCI. The DOE version of this report was separately published in 2008. This project dealt with various aspects of prediction of the stress-based and strain-based girthweld flaw tolerance of…