FESI International Bulletin on Structural Integrity
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Aims
The Bulletin is aimed at studies at the interfaces between industry, public utilities, insurance and legal bodies, and academe.
The major objective of the Bulletin is to bring together under one cover, reports and investigations relating to the safety, reliability, durability, integrity and life-time evaluations of and improvements to engineering products.
All countries suffer a slow but continuous deterioration of their engineering plant and the possibility of serious accidents, all of which cause grave concern to society. Railways, automobiles, aircraft, roads and bridges, chemical plant, shipping, off-shore structures, computer software, energy production and transmission systems etc, all require continuous surveillance and constant improvements. Frequently such problems lead to unnecessary expensive legal actions in national and international courts. No engineering discipline is immune when considering plant failures and yet modem facilities, together with a wide knowledge base, plus a desire to constantly improve the design, manufacture, and usage of engineering products are readily available in depth but need to be integrated for the benefit of all concerned.
Articles in the Bulletin will cover all engineering disciplines and products involving their design, manufacture, monitoring systems, and lifetime assessment evaluations. Review articles, ethical problems, synopses of important technical issues in court cases, case histories, requirements for modifications to, and explanations of, complex issues in Standards and Codes of Practice, and finally, the development of engineering techniques to improve the safety and integrity of plant, will be recurring themes of the Bulletin. It follows that the Bulletin will promote the engineering knowledge base, the modelling of plant, and risk assessment procedures, rather than present results of pure science studies. All sectors of the industrial world and leading engineering research centres, will be involved in the writing of articles for the benefit of all engineers in technologically advanced countries.
Previous Editions:
Bulletin 2 - Download pdf here
Contents:
- 3 - Who’s who in FESI
- 4 - Professor Keith Miller
- 7 - Conference and Meeting Reports
- 10 - Railway Fatigue Failures - Prof Rod Smith
- 21 - Forthcoming FESI Events
- 22 - ESIA8 Programme
- 24 - Comparison of Fracture Assessment Methods - HSL Report - HSL/2001/02
- 25 - Membership and Sponsorship
- 26 - Forthcoming Worldwide Events
Bulletin 1 - Download pdf here
Contents:
- 3 - Editorial - Who Is FESI? - Brian Tomkins
- 4 - Catastrophic construction failures - how SI helps - Micheal Burdekin
- 6 - ESIA7 - Conference Review - John Edwards
- 6 - ESIA8 2006 - Call for Papers
- 7 - The Professional Responsibility of Engineers - Ian Howard and Brian Tomkins
- 13 - What’s on - a roundup of future FESI events
- 13 - Lessons Can Be Learnt - Phil Heyes
- 14 - Assessment tools for SI - Iain Le May, Rangaswamy Seshadri
- 20 - In The Next Edition
- 20 - Future International Events