预防裂缝

Cracking down on cracks

海上设施如海上平台，大多建造在比较偏远的地方，几乎不可能进行维护，这就需要巨大的资金投入并且确保全体员工生活条件的绝对安全，防止裂缝。裂缝不可能被完全避免，但是它必须清除掉或保持在最小临界长度以下。而且在尽可能长的维修期间内，他们不能增长到临界长度。

Offshore installations like platforms, mostly built at remote places, hardly accessible for maintenance, representing a huge capital investment and requiring absolutely safe living conditions for their crews, hate cracks. Cracks generally cannot be totally avoided but they have to be removed or kept below a minimum critical length. And they should not grow into critical sizes during service periods which are aimed to be as long as possible.