Power plant and equipment components such as piping, valves and boilers are often subject to severe wear caused by alternating thermal loads. These loads can cause microcracks in the material, which develop into technical incipient cracks in the course of the operating time.
Normally, the use of the affected component then ends in an early repair measure or replacement, although the possible remaining service life has not yet been exhausted. Or relevant cracks are discovered too late. This results in unnecessary downtime and repair costs.
This is where xHalePlus comes in – xHalePlus provides time-accurate load data and calculates the gradual growth of potential cracks.
This leads to the derivation of flexible inspection intervals as well as to an optimized lifetime evaluation of thermally alternating loaded plant.