Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish component performance specifications
- Regulatory body and category rules, supplementary regulations, component supplier specifications and team instructions are used to develop component specifications including design, quality, material, equipment and quantities
- Component operating function is confirmed
- Component operating environment is established
- Component performance specifications are prepared
- Occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements, including regulatory requirements, equipment and system isolation requirements and personal protection needs are observed throughout the work
- Establish material performance specifications
- Material operating function is confirmed
- Criteria to be used in the selection of material and in the evaluation of outcomes are identified and documented
- Benchmark specifications for material are accessed and interpreted
- Possible legal and safety impacts of the material chosen are considered and responded to in accordance with regulatory and team obligations and practices
- Material performance specifications are prepared and documented to industry and team standards
- Test material suitability against material performance specifications
- Material capable of undertaking the operating function are identified
- The proposed material is selected following the identification, consideration and evaluation of the full range of available and relevant options
- The selected option, including material choices and processes, is developed in detail and progressively validated against established criteria
- Material compatibility is confirmed
- Material is selected/constructed to component specifications
- Test material are listed against material performance specifications
- Material failure causes are identified
- Testing procedures and results are documented
- Recommendations for material usage are devised
- Test component suitability against component performance specifications