March/April 1997 Inspectioneering Journal Article Index

• Pendulum Effect - Part 2

  March/April 1997 Inspectioneering Journal By Del Underwood at Det Norske Veritas Continuing with the theme "a billiard ball on the end of a fly rod," this month we will look at one alternative to mounting a heavy block valve on a small diameter nipple in vibrating conditions. A popular situation is where the purpose of the... Continue reading...

• Piping Inspection - Improving Thickness Data Taking Accuracy

  March/April 1997 Inspectioneering Journal By John Reynolds at Intertek This is the second in a series of articles on piping inspection. In the last article, I enumerated four inspection issues that I believe contribute to inadequate piping mechanical integrity in the hydrocarbon process industry. Continue reading...

• RBI Standards Development

  March/April 1997 Inspectioneering Journal The API Commitment on Refinery Equipment (CRE) has chartered a task group to develop an API recommended practice (RP 580), which will detail all the vital aspects of Risk-Based Inspection. This standard will not detail or propose any one specific... Continue reading...

• What's the Connection between RCM and RBI?

  March/April 1997 Inspectioneering Journal By Greg Alvarado at Inspectioneering Journal Our business paradigm is going through tremendous changes, as most of our readers can attest to. Look at the mega-mergers looming and happening in the petroleum business along with the tight margins most of them operate on. Continue reading...