Marcos M. Delgado Lucero: About the Author
API Inspector,
Marcos Miguel Delgado Lucero is a Mechanical Engineer who graduated from Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela. Marcos is an API Inspector (570, 510, and 653), and NDE VT, PT and UT Level II. He has experience in static asset integrity, such as vessels, atmospheric storage tanks, and pipelines, and is knowledgeable in on-stream and turnaround inspection, as well as Solidworks 2D, 3D, and static simulation.
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Published Articles
Settlement surveys are part of a tank integrity assessment per API 653 Annex B; however, there are no calculation examples. We’ll provide three possible cases.
A finite element analysis (FEA) was performed on five different models of varying configurations as an approach to establish best practices in the choice of the most appropriate factor of safety, depending on the type of metal loss.
This article will discuss a statistical analysis method that was developed to evaluate the integrity of pipelines that can identify, in a first phase inspection, whether the nature of the active damage mechanism(s) are uniform (general) or localized.
