Training Day Programme

09:00 Registration

09:15 Start and Welcome

1. Introduction to materials and process routes for manufacture of components operating at high temperature in power plants and gas turbines.

• Principal alloy families, specifications, product forms, manufacturing.

2. Creep design and creep property requirements

•  Relationship with other properties (tensile strength, fatigue etc)
•  Creep in relation to tubing/piping (+ weldments), rotating equipment (blades, rotors, casings [bolts]…)
•  Manufacturing aspects: properties of different product forms, why they differ

10:30 Coffee

3. Do creep tests represent the behaviour of a material in service? Why may they not?

•  How do we develop / introduce new materials?
•  Long-term testing programmes, sources of data.
•  What can I get from a creep test?  Creep strain-time models/methods. Sources of uncertainty.

12:00 – 12:45  Lunch

4. The requirement of stable creep models for 30yr / 60yr plant lifetimes

•  Determination of strength (design), lifetime (life assessment) from creep data
•  Can we really predict the future using empirical models?
•  Are physically-based models any better?
•  The ECCC approach with Post Assessment Tests.

14:30 Coffee

5.    Future development of design data for national/international standards

•  Why “negligible creep” is important, and how to determine it.
•  Should we be designing to eg. time to 1% creep / onset of tertiary rather than rupture life
•  Creep-fatigue, its origin and treatment
•  How to assess plant lifetimes limited by creep – life assessment principles/uncertainties.

6.     (If time) an overview of the ECCC 2026 conference programme

16:00 Close