Compliance with API standards

[albertoc]

My team is building an app to help fellow materials and corrosion engineers select the right test instructions to be in compliance with API and other important standards. Can anybody share what would be useful? Maybe a test wizard that asks about your requirements and points you to the appropriate API or ASTM standard? How do you go about it now without going through PDFs hundreds of pages long? Any help greatly appreciated. You might want to be a beta tester when it's ready. Thanks!!

 

[BigInch]

Hire an expert and get some real expert-type rules to build in to that app.

 

[albertoc]

Would your firm be interested in helping?

 

[blacksmith37]

Some time ago when I was on API Com 5 ( OCTG and linepipe ) and Com 6 (wellhead ) and ASTM A 1 ; They were material standards only ; and it was the responsibility of the user to know what he was doing and select the best material. I am old so I don't understand how an APP replaces knowledgeable engineers.

 

[EdStainless]

Materials being in compliance with specifications for applications is one thing, judging corrosion and other applications specific criteria are way beyond an automated system.
Over the years various oil companies (Shell) have sunk 10's of millions of dollars into systems that take system variables, calculate what corrosion will occur, and then figure out the impact on materials.
It is 'simply' a merging of chemical engineering, corrosion science, material engineering, and petroleum science.

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[darthsoilsguy2]

i collect API 653 and API 570 inspections reports from many different inspectors and companies and keep examples of them in my files. the collection occurs when i'm doing document review on a tanks/pipes i'm working on. The one truth i have concluded is that... Even among the best, most thorough, well-written, and well-thought inspection reports by people who you can tell know their metal, there are vast differences in the data collection approaches.