Advanced Linear Phased-Array Techniques for the Power Industry
Advanced nondestructive examination, including linear phased-array (LPA) ultrasonic techniques, is being used increasingly to achieve greater reliability and reduced forced outages at both nuclear and fossil units. This course covers fundamentals, applications, and hands-on demonstrations of emerging LPA techniques, including applications for generator rotors, turbine disks, header ligaments, girth welds, tube welds, and Class 1 welds.
Duration: 2½-day course
Instructors: Larry Nottingham, Allen Porter
Contact: info@structint.com
About the Instructors
Larry Nottingham holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and has over 35 years of experience in design, maintenance, and nondestructive evaluation of turbines, generators, and other power plant equipment. He also has extensive experience in development and delivery of advanced nondestructive evaluation systems and procedures for numerous power plant applications, with emphasis on turbine and generator components and high-energy piping.
Allen Porter has an MS in Material Science from Southern Methodist University, and holds ASNT Level III Certification in ultrasonic and eddy-current testing. He has over 20 years of experience in the application, development, and qualification of nondestructive examination techniques and systems for the power generation and aerospace industries. Porter's expertise includes application of advanced NDE solutions, notably ultrasonic phased-array and eddy-current array technologies, and his experience spans procedure development, certification, and training in automated and phased-array ultrasonic inspection, as well as eddy-current inspection.
Advanced NDE Techniques for the Power Industry
Advanced nondestructive examination techniques, including ultrasonic time-of-flight diffraction techniques and SI's annular phased-array techniques, can help both nuclear and fossil units attain higher reliability and reduced forced outages. Course includes ultrasonic inspection for construction welds, dissimilar metal weld inspection in boiler tubes and piping, and crack sizing in thin-wall components.
Duration: 3-day course
Instructors: Larry Nottingham, Allen Porter
Contact: info@structint.com
About the Instructors
Larry Nottingham holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and has over 35 years of experience in design, maintenance, and nondestructive evaluation of turbines, generators, and other power plant equipment. He also has extensive experience in development and delivery of advanced nondestructive evaluation systems and procedures for numerous power plant applications, with emphasis on turbine and generator components and high-energy piping.
Allen Porter has an MS in Material Science from Southern Methodist University, and holds ASNT Level III Certification in ultrasonic and eddy-current testing. He has over 20 years of experience in the application, development, and qualification of nondestructive examination techniques and systems for the power generation and aerospace industries. Porter's expertise includes application of advanced NDE solutions, notably ultrasonic phased-array and eddy-current array technologies, and his experience spans procedure development, certification, and training in automated and phased-array ultrasonic inspection, as well as eddy-current inspection.
Financial Risk Optimization for Maintenance & Inspection Planning
Course offers a new approach to financial risk optimization (FRO) for run/repair/replace decisions, using financial/decision analysis methods employed by corporate financial planners. Course includes determination of risk-critical components, introduction to FRO, probability of failure v.s. time, and developing a financial business plan for maintenance.
Duration: 2-day course
Instructor: to be announced
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Generator Retaining Ring Inspection & Evaluation
Getting the most out of generator rotor retaining rings: course covers metallurgy, design, nondestructive inspection techniques, life assessment, and fracture mechanics analysis of these retaining rings. EPRI® RRingLife™ computer program is highlighted, including finite element stress analysis, probability of moisture exposure, and material properties database.
Duration: 2-day course
Instructors: Larry Nottingham, Darryl Rosario
Contact: info@structint.com
About the Instructors
Larry Nottingham holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and has over 35 years of experience in design, maintenance, and nondestructive evaluation of turbines, generators, and other power plant equipment. He also has extensive experience in development and delivery of advanced nondestructive evaluation systems and procedures for numerous power plant applications, with emphasis on turbine and generator components and high-energy piping.
Darryl Rosario, PE holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has over 25 years of experience in stress and fracture mechanics analyses of power plant components, with particular expertise in deterministic and probabilistic fracture mechanics methods, including high-temperature creep fatigue crack growth. Rosario developed EPRI® LPRimLife™ code to evaluate rim attachment cracking in LP rotors, in addition to several other life assessment/evaluation codes.
Steam Turbine-Generator Rotor Analysis
Accurate analysis of steam turbine-generator rotor NDE data can help improve rotor disposition, startup procedure control, and scheduling of rotor reinspection intervals. Course covers rotor remaining-life analysis, including stress analysis, fracture mechanics, interpretation of NDE data, and available computational tools.
Duration: 2-day course
Instructor: Scott Rau
Contact: info@structint.com
About the Instructor
Scott Rau, PE has a MS in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has extensive experience in stress analysis, including finite element analysis and modeling of structures and components with linear or non-linear behavior; dynamic system response and time history analysis; and transient thermal elastic-plastic analysis. Rau has performed remaining life evaluations of over 50 high-energy piping systems, and of similar numbers of steam turbine and generator rotors.