Course detail
Process Equipment Construction
FSI-9SPZ Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester
The course is focused on aging / lifetime control of process equipment in operational conditions. The content of the aging / lifetime management system and material damage processes is explained. Mathematical descriptions of the most common material damage mechanisms of process equipment such as fatigue, creep and corrosion are presented. Procedures for assessing the permissible growth of defects found by non-destructive methods and procedures for assessing the resistance of brittle fracture to process equipment are explained. The procedure of creating a process equipment damage scenario and selecting independent variables is explained, including the determination of their statistical distribution when calculating the probability of failure of pf and the risk of a major process equipment accident.
Language of instruction
Czech
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Basic knowledge from elasticity and strength of structures, mechanics and theory of materials.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The exam is oral, students have to prove their theoretical and practical knowledge.
The seminar is individual.
Aims
The objectives of the course \Process equipment construction\ are as follows: – provide students with basic theoretical knowledge which can be used for the work on a doctoral thesis,
- teach students to use literature,
- understand the problem and find a direction for acquired knowledge development.
A student will know that process equipment material damage while operating can be influenced and will learn the ways to influence it. The student will understand that only using mathematical description of material damage based on the experiments the level of material damage and residual lifetime can be found. The students will learn that methods available now are to be constantly developed. They will be introduced to the scope and type of input data for the calculations and purposefulness of their statistical distribution knowledge. The students will know the difference between deterministic way of analysis and probabilistic analysis of accident occurrence.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme D-IME-P: Applied Mechanics, Doctoral, recommended course
Type of course unit
Lecture
20 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Process equipment aging/lifetime management system. Requirements and possibilities.
2. Reaction of material to the load, mechanisms of material damage during operating.
3. Categorization of strains, strength analysis for a case of monotonously growing load.
4. Damage of material in case of variable load, material fatigue.
5. Resistance of material against brittle fracture.
6. Damage of material under high temperatures, creep.
7. Damage of material under the influence of corroding medium.
8. Diagnostic systems and input parameters for evaluating residual lifetime of process equipment.
9. Scenario of material damage during operating
10. Probability of boundary damage of material and risk of a failure.