About FESI:

FESI was established in 2001 because of the need for a forum to encourage best practice in the assessment of structural integrity across industry sectors and businesses. It has brought together, as a national grouping, senior engineers and scientists drawn from various industries, businesses and academia with technical specialisms to explore the current and developing challenges of the Structural Integrity community.

 

The assurance of the operational integrity of structures and components across a range of industrial sectors from transport to energy, process plant to built environment, is central to the assurance of safety and economic performance. The provision of quantifiable structural integrity assessment is an engineering function, but one involving a range of disciplines from mechanics and materials, to corrosion chemistry and applied physics, integrated within new technical disciplines such as fracture mechanics and risk based assessment and maintenance which provide the tools that can ensure failure avoidance, and underpin life prediction and through-life management of aging plant and components.

The Forum has the following remit:

• The promotion and development of the understanding of engineering structural integrity in the UK
• The organisation of seminars on developments in engineering structural integrity technology and its applications
• The organisation of topical discussion seminars on interdisciplinary and/or cross industry sector issues in engineering structural integrity
• The organisation of specific industry discussions/meetings/seminars on engineering structural integrity, on request
• The organisation of international conferences in the UK on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment concerned with the dissemination of engineering structural integrity technology and its application across industry sectors
• Liaison with other bodies involved in significant engineering structural integrity R&D and applications programmes
• The organisation, jointly with collaborators, of similar national conferences/seminars in the UK and other countries
• To provide a house journal to disseminate up-to-date developments
• The facility for conference proceedings and specialist SI text books to be published through its publishing house – EMAS Publishing

The Forum seeks to encourage technology transfer across industry sectors - and the development of technologies which will support the safe and cost-effective design and operation of major engineering plant, structures and components. Its activities will cover a wide range of industries including aerospace, petrochemical, oil and gas, power generation, automotive, transport and construction. Technology integration includes inspection, monitoring, diagnosis, analysis, IT and assessment methods.