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The late 1990's were the period when advances in fracture mechanics and other advanced concepts for assessment of the safety and reliability of operating equipment were beginning to be widely recognized as useful and practical tools for implementation by, among others, the process and power industries. Important, but missing at the time, were codes and standards detailing the necessary steps and methods for implementation of assessment procedures for evaluation of operating equipment. Such documents were in time to be written for adoption by organizations such as API and ASME.

The Materials Properties Council (MPC), now part of the Welding Research Council (WRC), was selected by specialists at major petroleum companies to be the focal point for the development of a comprehensive draft fitness-for-standard which, in time, would be adopted by the American Petroleum Institute (API) as API 579. Later, it would also be adopted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as ASME FFS-1. Development of the document, which continues under a joint committee of those societies to this date, was the result of the leadership of David Osage, at the time of British Petroleum's U.S.A. operation with considerable input from Dr. Ted Anderson, at the time a professor at Texas A

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Published: 2017 Number of Pages: 98 File Size: 1 file , 4.2 MB