API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 Fitness for Service - Post-construction Code for Pressure Equipment with Flaws and Corrosion Damage, 2011 PEERS Conference

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Modern metal pressure equipment is designed and constructed according to ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel code and ASME Piping codes to obtain safe operation through predictable material properties, specified stress limits and fabrication quality requirements. After an “authorized inspector” stamps completed equipment to signify it conforms to the code rules and has passed a final pressure test, the equipment is no longer covered by ASME B&PV codes. Instead, because equipment is subject to corrosion and other damage over time, N. American and European authorities have recently published standards prescribing standard methods for assessing the pressurized component’s fitness for continued service (FFS) precisely because compliance with design or new-construction codes often is not practical or economical.