• Providing the participants with a thorough of the various damage mechanisms contained in the latest edition of API RP 571-2011
• Understanding how this knowledge can be applied to the selection of effective inspection methods to detect size and characterize damage.
• Learning the 66 damage mechanisms that are common to a variety of industries. 

• Technicians
• Mechanical Engineering
• Inspection Staff 
• Maintenance & Operations Engineers 

Day 1

• Introduction to Corrosion 
• Corrosion: Definition and Examples
• Basic Concepts in Electrochemistry
• Why Do Metals Corrode
• Kinetics: the Rate of Corrosion
• How Do Metals Corrode: Different Forms of Corrosion
• General Methods for Corrosion Control
• Common Alloys Used in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries 
• Overview of API RP 571-2011

Day 2

• General Damage Mechanisms – All Industries Including Refining and 
• Petrochemical, Pulp and Paper, and Fossil Utility 
• Mechanical and Metallurgical Failure Mechanisms 
• Graphitization 
• Softening (Spheroidization) 
• Temper Embrittlement 
• Strain Aging 
• 885oF Embrittlement 
• Sigma Phase Embrittlement 
• Brittle Fracture 
• Creep / Stress Rupture 
• Thermal Fatigue 
• Short Term Overheating – Stress Rupture 
• Steam Blanketing 
• Dissimilar Metal Weld (DMW) Cracking 
• Thermal Shock 
• Erosion / Erosion-Corrosion 
• Cavitation 
• Mechanical Fatigue 
• Vibration-Induced Fatigue 
• Refractory Degradation 
• Reheat Cracking
• Gaseous Oxygen-Enhanced Ignition and Combustion

Day 3

• Uniform or Localized Loss of Thickness 
• Galvanic Corrosion 
• Atmospheric Corrosion 
• Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) 
• Cooling Water Corrosion 
• Boiler Water Condensate Corrosion 
• CO2 Corrosion 
• Flue Gas Dew Point Corrosion 
• Microbiologically Induced Corrosion (MIC) 
• Soil Corrosion 
• Caustic Corrosion 
• Dealloying 
• Graphitic Corrosion 
• High Temperature Corrosion [400oF (204oC)] 
• Oxidation
• Sulfidation 
• Carburization 
• Decarburization 
• Fuel Ash Corrosion 
• Nitriding 

Day 4

• Environment – Assisted Cracking 
• Chloride Stress Corrosion Cracking (CI–SCC) 
• Corrosion Fatigue 
• Caustic Stress Corrosion Cracking (Caustic Embrittlement) 
• Ammonia Stress Corrosion Cracking 
• Liquid Metal Embrittlement (LME) 
• Hydrogen Embrittlement (HE)
• Ethanol Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC)
• Sulfate Stress Corrosion Cracking 
• Refining Industry Damage Mechanisms 
• Uniform or Localized Loss in Thickness Phenomena 
• Amine Corrosion 
• Ammonium Bisulfide Corrosion (Alkaline Sour Water) 
• Ammonium Chloride Corrosion 
• Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) Corrosion 
• High Temperature H2/H2S Corrosion 
• Hydrofluoric (HF) Acid Corrosion 
• Naphthenic Acid Corrosion (NAC) 
• Phenol (Carbonic Acid) Corrosion 
• Phosphoric Acid Corrosion 
• Sulfuric Acid Corrosion
• Aqueous Organic Acid Corrosion 

Day 5

• Polythionic Acid Stress Corrosion Cracking (PASCC) 
• Environment–Assisted Cracking 
• Amine Stress Corrosion Cracking 
• Wet H2S Damage (Blistering / HIC / SOHIC / SCC) 
• Hydrogen Stress Cracking – HF
• Carbonate Stress Corrosion Cracking (ACSCC)
• Other Mechanisms 
• High Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA) 
• Titanium Hydrating 

Rectus attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.