FITNET: The Origins of Europe's Unified Fitness-for-Service Procedure
In the fracture-mechanics and fitness-for-service (FFS) literature, FITNET is a name you cannot avoid. Many large-component fracture-test examples, and many assessment results cited for cross-checking, are marked “from FITNET”. What is it, where did it come from, and why is it authoritative? This article sets it out from public sources. 1. In one line: what FITNET is FITNET (European Fitness-for-Service Network) is an EU-funded research collaboration network. Its goal is one sentence: to establish a unified, validated fitness-for-service procedure for flawed metal structures (welded and non-welded) — the later FITNET FFS Procedure. ...