UGent guidelines for Curved Wide Plate testing

Abstract

This paper provides the UGent guidelines for the design, testing and evaluation of tensile loaded CWP specimens for the assessment of flaw significance in pipeline girth welds. To allow a correct and independent interpretation of CWP test data, a summary of the required supplementary information that should be reported with CWP test data is provided. Laboratories providing CWP data are invited to evaluate and comment the guidelines. It is expected and desired that these comments will provide additional information for the development of an accepted CWP testing standard. Comments on the guidelines may be submitted to the above address.