The recently developed European flaw assessment procedure SINTAP is applied
to a total of 97 full-scale pipe tests with through-wall and surface crack
s subjected to internal pressure and four point bending. Based on the exper
imental data various analysis levels of SINTAP are discussed with respect t
o their potential for predicting the failure loads and the margins of conse
rvatism. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.