RMC-13-36 Repair Strategies for Civil Structures Utilizing New Risk Based Inspection Methodology

Description:

A team of engineers from BP’s Whiting Refinery and DNV collaborated to develop a risk assessment and inspection process to identify and evaluate aging refinery structures. To better focus structural repair efforts among a population of over 12,000 structures, this new inspection program utilizes detailed rule based inspection checklists yielding consistent and efficient inspection reports. The value of this new methodology is the creation of an inspection program that uses quantifiable risk analysis to give clarity to a repair strategy for a large population of refinery structures.