| New
Version of API 579 to Be Released
04/05/06
The new version of API 579 is scheduled
for release as API/ASME Fitness-For-Service standard
in June 2006. The document has been expanded to address
material damage mechanisms other than just those commonly
found in refining industry equipment. The chapters
are now called Parts rather than Sections to avoid
confusion with sections of the ASME Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code. The following major changes are incorporated
into the new document:
- The assessment procedures
for gouges have been taken out of Part 5 and
are now in a new Part 12.
- Assessment procedures for HIC/SOHIC
damage have been added to Part 7.
- Assessment procedures
for bulges in Part 8 are being modified, and assessment
procedures for dents in Part 8 have been move to
a new Part 12.
- Assessment procedures for equipment
operating in the creep range are now available
in Part 10.
- Assessment procedures for dents, gouges,
and dent/gouge combinations are now in a new Part
12.
- Assessment
of laminations has been removed from Part 7 and
put in a new Part 13.
Appendices B, C, E, F, H, and K have
been enhanced. All of the example problems have been
removed and will be published in a separate document.
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