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Girth Weld Integrity Assessment

Assessing girth weld integrity could be a top priority after ground movement events or weld anomalies are identified in-service.  Such scenarios may also involve axial load levels that exceed the design condition.  Typical fitness-for-service assessments that target nominally elastic material conditions can produce overly conservative outcomes in these cases, potentially leading to unnecessary excavations and obscuring truly critical sites.

Key Benefits of Gwise

• Accurate, consistent, and streamlined integrity assessments of girth welds with a wide range of characteristics
• Informed mitigation decisions that focus on truly critical welds
• Reduction of unnecessary excavations
• Fracture mechanics-based, defensible approach for fitness-for-service / engineering assessments substantiated by a large number of publications and public-domain reports

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