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INTRODUCTION
Assessment of the behaviour of high temperature plant components containing defects and operating under steady
and/or cyclic load conditions has become an area of urgent need and interest. The series of HIDA conferences,
started in April 1998, have now become a regular event aimed at addressing this need.
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The first HIDA Conference
(HIDA-1) was held in Paris in April 1998 and was considered to be a highly focussed event. HIDA-2 Conference
was organised in Stuttgart, Germany, at the end of the 4 year of the HIDA project. HIDA (High-temperature Defect
Assessment) was a European Commission supported research project aimed at developing a European defect
assessment procedure validated on a number of materials of interest to high temperature industry. HIDA-3 was held
in Lisbon, Portugal, and was aimed at crack growth and other high temperature behaviour of repair welds. HIDA-4
held at the University of Cambridge, England, was aimed at bringing together experts, academics, researchers and
industry personnel interested in assessing the behaviour and life of defect containing components using probabilistic
assessment. The development and work/ research on defect and life assessment in high temperature plant
components will not be without the interaction of other plant activities or plant experience such as failure analysis,
fitness-for-service and preventive maintenance in industrial plant. HIDA-5 will therefore consider a wider scope for
which papers are invited on the topics shown here. |
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