Integrity Assessment of Fire-Damaged Vessels	Time: 1:30 PM	Room C
Mac Samman, Stress Engineering Services, Inc. The API 579-1 / ASME FFS-1 standard for fitness for service provides guidelines for assessing fire damage and shell distortion. Implementing these guidelines requires a methodology that accurately quantifies the damage and analyzes its consequences. The ability to do so is particularly challenging when the vessel is large and accessibility is limited. This presentation introduces a methodology for conducting integrity assessment of large fire-damaged vessel that uses laser scans, nonlinear finite element analyses, and a newly-developed software for processing of laser scan data. The methodology is illustrated using case studies.