The TVO piping and component analysis and monitoring system (PAMS)

To make fitness, safety and lifetime related assessments for piping and components, the amount of necessary input data is considerable. At the same time it is essential that the data is reliable, up-to-date, well traceable and easy to obtain. Often the information that is necessary for a specific project has to be collected in a very short time. This paper presents an outline of the contents of a piping and component database system, consisting of separate geometrical, material, loading, result and reference-document databases. The main contributors to this development have been TVO and VTT, but also smaller contributors are involved, like FEM data. The system under development is intended to facilitate the analyses of piping and components and to generate well-documented appendices comprising input and output for these analyses. (author)