Validation of Inspection Planning Methods - Summary Report

This report studies the validation of inspection planning methods.

Fatigue is of significant concern for load bearing offshore structures in the North Sea.

The present tools for predicting fatigue life or crack growth imply highly scattered estimates.

There is a need for more reliable fatigue life and defect assessment procedure for the most frequent failure observed.

The availability of a database of inspection data to correlate actual with predicted performance will assist the development of fatigue assessment procedures representing the observed crack growth.