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Publish Date: 2007/09/22
Volume: 7, Issue: 5, Pages: 344-346
Abstract
This July in Paris France Battelle hosted experts from around the world for a course detailing its meshinsensitive structural stress method for fatigue evaluation of welded structures Battelle’s method also is known as the Verity module in fesafe a fatigue software package distributed by Safe Technology The method achieved an industry milestone when it was adopted in the 2007 ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section VIII Div 2 and the new joint API American Petroleum Institute and ASME FitnessforService FFS Standard API 5791/ASME FFS1 The new code and FFS standard were published this summer and the Paris course provided an opportunity for engineers to become familiar with the method before the code took effect
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