API 579-1 / ASME FFS-1 Fitness-For-Service - Volumetric Loss & Planar Flaws
Dates: September 1 - 2, 2026
Preliminary Registration Form
Please fill out the preliminary form below for this API-U Approved course. After the form has been submitted, the training provider will reach out to you regarding further registration information.
Course Outline
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Overview and Opportunities for FFS
- Introduction to API 579-1/ASME FFS-1
- FFS Assessment Procedures
- Assessment of Equipment: Brittle Fracture, General Metal Loss, Local Metal Loss, Pitting Corrosion, HIC, SOHIC, and Hydrogen Blister Damage, Weld Misalignment and Shell Distortions, Crack-Like Flaws
Creep Damage and Remaining Life, Fire Damage, Dents, Gouges, and Dent-Gouge Combinations, Laminations, Fatigue, In-Service Margins/Validation
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Appreciate the format, organizational structure,
and use of the API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 document
- Recognize the importance of damage mechanism
identification
- State the applicability and limitations of the
volumetric metal loss assessment procedures
- Follow and summarize the application of the Level 1
and Level 2 assessment techniques
- Understand the importance of establishing
inspection intervals and the methods used to
determine them
- Choose the appropriate mitigation and monitoring
methods
- Appreciate the importance of documentation of
the various FFS procedures
- Explain the step-by-step procedure calculations
for at least two example assessments covered
during the course.
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for:
- Plant inspectors and engineers who work in a mechanical integrity, reliability, or maintenance role
- Inspection, engineering, reliability, and mechanical integrity managers
- Central engineering staff who support plant personnel
- May be beneficial for similar positions in the fossil fuel, utility, pulp and paper, nuclear energy, and other processing industries that use and maintain pressurized equipment
