Structural Integrity

In the fracture-mechanics and fitness-for-service (FFS) literature, FITNET is a name you cannot avoid. This article traces the origins of the FITNET EU project from public sources: how it descends from SINTAP, who led and funded it, its scale, what the four modules of the FITNET FFS Procedure each cover, and why its fracture module is highly comparable to BS 7910.

An introduction to Leak-Before-Break (LBB): what it means, where it applies and where it does not, the main codes, the three analysis steps, and a nuclear piping example.