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Tao, Shen. "Chinese Agriculture in the 1980s and 90s." Outlook on Agriculture 19, no. 2 (1990): 111–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003072709001900208.

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Huxley, Tim. "Singapore's politics in the 1980S and '90S." Asian Affairs 23, no. 3 (1992): 282–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/714041192.

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ISKHAKOV, D. M., L. V. SAGITOVA, and I. L. IZMAILOV. "The Tatar National Movement of the 1980s-90s." Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia 43, no. 3 (2004): 11–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10611959.2004.11029010.

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Vergara, Alberto. "Heat But Little Light: Peru's Memory Deb." Current History 118, no. 805 (2019): 75–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/curh.2019.118.805.75.

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Eckersall, Peter. "Japan As Dystopia: Kawamura Takeshi's Daisan Erotica." TDR/The Drama Review 44, no. 1 (2000): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/10542040051058924.

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In the 1960s, the angura (underground) theatre movement was a site of radical culture. But by the 1980s and '90s, angura was co-opted. Even so, there is some critical and transgressive post-angura theatre worth noting, most especially Kawamura Takeshi's Daisan Erotica.

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Ebell, Philipp. "Die Wende in der Wahrnehmung der Ostdeutschen. Eine Mentalitätsgeschichte." historia.scribere, no. 8 (June 14, 2016): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15203/historia.scribere.8.492.

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The following paper examines the question of how eastern German people perceived the “turnaround“ in the 1980s and 90s. Therefore, six people who came from various social backgrounds were interviewed. In addition, the interviews were analyzed and compared to historical data in order to find out how and why people experienced the “turnaroun

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한영현. "Time and History of Chenkiger Movie -Centering around the Movie in 1980s-90s-." Contemporary Film Studies 7, no. 2 (2011): 59–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.15751/cofis.2011.7.2.59.

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Bureaud, Annick. "It's a Beautiful Name for a Satellite: Paradoxical Art Objects Somewhere between Politics and Poetics." Leonardo 54, no. 1 (2021): 79–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01987.

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Since the launch of Sputnik, artists have dreamt of putting artistic satellites into orbit. The dream came true in 2013–2014. This article compares a selection of projects by the pioneers in the 1980s and ’90s with some of the current ones developed by a new generation of artists. The article analyzes and discusses different approaches, discourses, techniques and aesthetics.

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Williams, Justin A. "The Construction of Jazz Rap as High Art in Hip-Hop Music." Journal of Musicology 27, no. 4 (2010): 435–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2010.27.4.435.

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Multiple factors contributed to the elevation of jazz as "high art" in mainstream media reception by the 1980s. The stage was thus set for hip-hop groups in the late-1980s and early 90s (such as Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, and Digable Planets) to engage in a relationship with jazz as art and heritage. "Jazz codes" in the music, said to signify sophistication, helped create a rap-music subgenre commonly branded "jazz rap." Connections may be identified between the status of jazz, as linked to a high art ideology in the 1980s, and the media reception of jazz rap as an elite rap subgenre (in opposition to "gangsta" rap and other subgenres). Contemplation of this development leads to larger questions about the creation of hierarchies, value judgments, and the phenomenon of elite status within music genres.

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김현주. "Representation of American History by Asian American Women Artists in the 1980s and '90s." Korean Bulletin of Art History ll, no. 47 (2016): 101–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.15819/rah.2016..47.101.

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Yung, Wai-kei, and 戎偉基. "Pictorial representations of "Hong Kong": a study of 1980s and 90s Hong Kong films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951788.

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Yung, Wai-kei. "Pictorial representations of "Hong Kong" : a study of 1980s and 90s Hong Kong films /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20059760.

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楊慧儀 and Wai-yee Jessica Yeung. "From China to nowhere: the writings of Gao Xingjian in the 1980s and early 90s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31214824.

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Yeung, Wai-yee Jessica. "From China to nowhere : the writings of Gao Xingjian in the 1980s and early 90s /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17546084.

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Avila, William Richard. "Representations of HIV/AIDS in Popular American Comic Books, 1981-1996." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1616593578624264.

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Wang, Lianghe. "Shi guan de chong tu yu zhu liu de jing zhu : Xianggang ba, jiu shi nian dai shi tan de liu pai fen zheng--yi "Zhong Weimin xian xiang" ying zhao = The clash of poetic views and striving to be the centre : an exploration of the conflict between poetic schools in the 1980s and 90s in Hong Kong in the light of the "Chung Wai Man phenomenon" /." click here to view the abstract and table of contents, 2001. http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~libres/cgi-bin/thesisab.pl?pdf=b17040474a.pdf.

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王良和. "詩觀的衝突與主流的競逐 : 香港八、九十年代詩壇的流派紛爭--以「鍾偉民現象」映照 = The clash of poetic views and striving to be the centre : an exploration of the conflict between poetic schools in the 1980s and 90s in Hong Kong in the light of the "Chung Wai Man phenomenon"". HKBU Institutional Repository, 2001. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/312.

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Tao, Shih-Wen, and 陶世文. "City and Theater：Modern Theater Performance on Cultural Space (The Early 1980s to The 90s)." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97033355344591463282.

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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>建築學系<br>91<br>The development of modern theater has become part of the west dramatic circles. The influence of the west modern theater imparted into Taiwan mostly by articles and pictures in the magazines during postwar of World War II. However, KMT authority government monitored the thinking and behavior of all citizens. Therefore the effect had certain limitation at that time. This kind of limitation had not been solved until the international position of KMT authority government went down in the early 1980s. After the consciousness of nation identification was not autocratically built on the image of China, modern theater in Taiwan then really got the chance to develop. At the same time, Taiwan society progressivelymoved toward modernization. And the growth in economy makes material life not short any more. But postwar generation was not interesting in stale politic Hua Ju-modern drama. The space-time of modern theater must accord with the real world. Only presenting drama in this way gives modern theater strength and persuasiveness, These causes had lots of influences on the success of Taiwan modern theater. Due to the influence from west modern theater, we could see west modern theater style the initial stage of Taiwan modern theater performances. The combination of new theater factors, external Chinese looking and internal west thinking, made the big success of Lan Ling Theatre workshop. And this kind of success made modern theater different from Hua Ju-modern drama and established theatrical circles in Taiwan. External performance style is just a symbolic form. The development of modern theater thinking still has to link up to the social consciousness. When Taiwan government declared the end of martial law, theater workshops considerable established. And their performance is based on the idea of modern theater. Modern theater and those workshops have become one of the releasing outlets of social consciousness. This situation made Taipei have a image of “the city of modern theater”, and turned into a part of Taipei culture. From the early 1980s to the 90s, we could notice, from the transition of these modern theater workshops, that the social consciousness was changing such as the combination of Chinese culture with west modern theater style, the modernization of Taiwan, and the growth of Taiwan local culture. This transition is similar to the space-time development of Taipei. The theater is part of city-cultured spaces. Modern theater shows the local life style. Naturally, city-cultured spaces are chosen for performance. But, the opinion on the right of using city-cultured spaces was different between the authority and the non-governmental circles. The right of using theater was restricted. Ideology identification was directly restricted to the permission of using the authority places. However, in the early 1980s, the places that belong to the non-governmental circles were rare. Meanwhile, it was allowed only through authority to establish large-scale performance stages. Relatively, the power of the non-governmental circles was weak. Besides, when it comes to renting a place for performance, the economic ability of theatrical companies is a latent factor that has to be considered. Under the interaction between ideology and economy factors, city-cultured spaces had very much different images to different workshops. Theater spaces play an equal role in the media of performance spaces and the social image of theater companies. Theater companies make an artistic creation mostly from the subject of real social life in the city. A theater space is not only the representation of social consciousness, but also the connotative symbol of each different social strata. The audience makes their choices depending on the performance and stage space of each theater company. The atmosphere of stage spaces and the image of actor bodies are important communication media for theater. What the audience actually sees is the expression of what theater companies think to the society. Under consciousness identification, body and space combine each other into one thing in the theater. This makes the culture space which theater stands for have different levels. The theater turns the relation between city and body into the same level. Different life experiences of each theater company have organized the social consciousness. In this transition phase of ideology, I have chosen one theater in each group with similar thinking to do my research. These are the Lan Ling Theatre Workshop、Performance Workshop、Critical Point Theater Phenomenon、U-Theatre、Taiwan Walker Workshop. The process and experience of the performance of these theater companies have answered how “theaters” in Taipei discuss the issue of ideology transition and how each theater company copes with the difference between the stage space and body. Under the transition of consciousness and the development of modern theater, what kind of city space theater companies have experienced and where theater companies locate show the discriminate and authenticate image of “body=city.”

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Books on the topic "1980s-90s"

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Easton, Thomas. Periodic stars: An overview of science fiction literature in the 1980s and '90s. Borgo Press, 1997.

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Chaderton, Robertine. The failure of Barbadian businesses in the 1980s: Lessons for the decade of the 90s. Institute of Social and Economic Research (Eastern Caribbean), University of the West Indies, 1993.

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Black/gay: The Harlem Renaissance, the protest era, and constructions of black gay identity in the 1980s and 90s. Michigan State University Press, 2012.

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Lundskaer-Nielsen, M. Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Dertouzos, James N. Is Military Advertising Effective? An Estimation Methodology and Applications to Recruiting in the 1980s and 90s. RAND Corporation, 2003.

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Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History). Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Brooker, Paul, and Margaret Hayward. Intel: Grove’s Only the Paranoid Survive. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825395.003.0006.

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Andy Grove enhanced the microprocessor manufacturer Intel in the 1980s–90s by learning to adapt to the crises that he later termed ‘strategic inflection points’. The first section describes how and what CEO Grove learnt from these ‘inflection point’ adaptive crises. The second section describes his three-stage adaptive framework for dealing with these adaptive crises. It includes rapid adaptation and two other rational methods, diverse and institutionalized deliberation, plus a pre-deliberation experimental process that ‘delivers’ new product ideas. The third section focuses on this experimentation process, so important for high-tech firms seeking product innovation and diversification. Packard’s memoir The HP Way described the Hewlett-Packard decentralized, multi-divisional, experimentation system that produced a long series of innovations and diversifications. The final section discusses Steve Jobs’s relatively top-down, hands-on approach to experimentation and diversification, which provided Apple with the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

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Staffell, Simon. From 25 January to Islamic State. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190650292.003.0004.

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The history of the jihadist movement in Egypt provides important lessons about its possible future trajectories. This chapter sets out the history of jihadism in Egypt from Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) and Egyptian Islamic Jihad in the 1980s and 90s, through the al-Tawhid w‘al Jihad and Al-Qaeda affiliate the Abdullah Azzam Brigades in the 2000s. The chapter then considers how jihadism has developed after the 25 January 2011 revolution. It examines the rise of IS in Egypt - the organizational changes involved and how these were accompanied by changes in ideology and narrative. By situating these changes in the context of the history of salafi-jihadism in Egypt, it argues that IS’s ability to gain a foothold, were in part due to their global narrative, but more notably were due to the way in which the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis/Wilayat Sina leadership were willing and able to adapt this narrative to the particularities of the Egyptian context. Egyptian jihadism has not historically accepted IS’s approach, and this may ultimately prove to be their downfall in the country.

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Book chapters on the topic "1980s-90s"

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da Silva, Filipe Carreira. "Consolidation, 1980s–90s." In Sociology in Portugal: A Short History. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137495518_4.

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Lundskaer-Nielsen, Miranda. "The Legacy of the 1980s and 90s." In Directors and the New Musical Drama. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230611245_10.

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Ponnuswami, Meenakshi. "The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1980s’90s." In Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama. Macmillan Education UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50629-0_6.

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Bouchet, Michel Henry, Charles A. Fishkin, and Amaury Goguel. "Volatility, Spillovers, and Crisis Contamination: The New Dynamics of Country Risk Since the 1980s and 90s in the Globalized Market Economy." In Managing Country Risk in an Age of Globalization. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89752-3_6.

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Thane, Pat, and Tanya Evans. "The Struggle Continues: 1980s–90s." In Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199578504.003.0009.

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"The Pärt Sound." In Arvo Pärt, edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823289752.003.0006.

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This chapter takes the form of an interview with Paul Hillier, author of the first monograph on Pärt and founding director of the Hilliard Ensemble—responsible for several of the standard recordings of Pärt’s works in the 1980s and ’90s. The focus of the conversation concerns issues in the performance of Pärt’s works and their effect on their resulting sound.

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"Embracing the Metropolis: Urban Vampires in American Cinema of the 1980s and 90s." In Vampires. Brill | Rodopi, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401201469_013.

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Magerstädt, Sylvie. "Part IV: Cult and kitsch: Graeco-Roman myths on US television (1980s–90s)." In TV antiquity. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526100078.00014.

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Kilgore, Christopher D. "At the Edge of the Barely Perceptible." In The Artistry of Neil Gaiman. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496821645.003.0005.

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In this chapter, Christopher Kilgore analyzes venomous and abusive masculinities as drawn-out temporal trauma in some of Gaiman and McKean's darker works, Violent Cases and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch. The chapter goes on to argue that the strange temporalities in these two books portray and critique a hereditary culture of domestic and public masculine violence, putting Gaiman and McKean in line with other critical work of the 1980s and '90s graphic narrative renaissance and at odds with the traditional masculinities prevalent in mainstream comics.

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Harrison, Olivia C. "Khatibi and the Transcolonial Turn." In Abdelkébir Khatibi. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789622331.003.0007.

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The Palestinian question has played a seminal if neglected role in Abdelkébir Khatibi’s writings, from the central notion of a “plural Maghreb” to his musings on language, colonialism, and “pensée-autre,” an expression he initially coined in response to the massacre of Palestinian fighters by Jordanian troops in 1970. This chapter examines the central importance of the Palestinian question in Khatibi’s writings, from his 1974 polemic Vomito blanco to his exchanges with Jacques Hassoun and Jacques Derrida in the 1980s and 90s, and argues that Khatibi was a precursor in what we might call the transcolonial turn.

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Conference papers on the topic "1980s-90s"

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Sande, Joar. "THE BASIS FOR A LEARNING VIEW – EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end001.

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This article tells about my own experiences as a student and professor in technical education in Norway and USA in the 1980s and 90s, and economic education in Norway the academic year 2000-01. In technical education in Norway in the 1980s it was not necessary to put that much effort into your studies get a good grade. In the United States, on the other hand, students had two work hard to keep up to get good results. Norwegian higher education, however, has become more like American higher education after the Bologna process. A fresh university professor is nothing more than an advanced student, in the beginning one sticks to the textbook, and any deviation from the plan can cause light panic. As time goes by, the professor gains experience and growing self-confidence, and can start to experiment. My journey in teaching control engineering ended up with flipped classroom, based upon sociocultural learning, where both students and professors participate with the knowledge they have. Learning happens best if people interact and construct new knowledge together. The participants in the learning environment extend their closest (proximal) development zone by collaborating with others.

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Marchenko, Nataliya. "Northern Sea Route: Modern State and Challenges." In ASME 2014 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2014-23626.

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It is well-known that navigating the waterway from the primary trade hubs in northern Europe to the Asia-Pacific ports and contrariwise along the Russian Arctic Coast (Northern Sea Route - NSR) is much shorter and faster, than southern ways via Suez or around Africa. The NSR can significantly save costs (through saving time and fuel) and avoids the risk of attack by pirates. In addition, an increase in oil and gas activity in the North, forecasts of global warming and an ice-free Arctic have stimulated interest in Arctic navigation. However, Arctic transportation poses significant challenges because of the heavy ice conditions that exist during both the winter and summer. The profitability of using the NSR is called into question if possible high tariffs are included in the cost estimates. For many years, the NSR was principally used for internal Russian transport and since the end of the 1980s up until 2010, it was in stagnation with total amount of cargo transported annually stood at less than two million tons. Important political decisions in the 90s and increased economic feasibility intensified traffic and freight turnover. In 2013, the NSR Administration (NSRA) was established, new rules for navigation were approved and tariff policies were modified. In 2013, the NSRA issued 635 permits to sail in NSR waters, and 71 transit voyages have since been completed. The total amount of transit cargo was 1.36 million tons. More than 40% of the total number of permits were issued to vessels without ice class [1] according to the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping [2]. There are strong technical requirements for vessels attempting to sail the NSR; regardless, several accidents occurred in 2012–2013. Two vessels were dented by ice in the Chukchi Sea in 2012. A tanker was holed in September 2013 and created a real danger of an ecological disaster from fuel leakage for several days. Despite the expectation of an ice-free Arctic, the ice conditions in 2013 were rather difficult, and the Vilkitsky Strait (a key strait in the NSR between the Kara and Laptev seas) was closed by ice for almost the entire navigation period. In this paper, we review the current situation in the Russian Arctic, including political and administrative actions, recent accidents and the associated conditions and lessons learned.

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Hale, Stan. "Validation of Valve Leak Quantification With Non-Intrusive Acoustic Emission Technology." In ASME/NRC 2014 12th Valves, Pumps, and Inservice Testing Symposium. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nrc2014-5016.

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In the late 1980s and early 90s, several companies tested a range of acoustic devices for monitoring valve leakage during the check-valve diagnostic system research performed at the Utah State Water Research Laboratory as part of two separate nuclear-industry-sponsored initiatives. The acoustic sensor technology and analysis techniques evaluated were found helpful but no progress was made in non-intrusively quantifying the leak rate through the valves tested during these programs. Around that same time, oil & gas companies in the UK were experimenting with detection and quantification of valve leakage using acoustic emission (AE) technology. The AE sensors and signal-processing technology selected for the UK oil & gas effort responded to much higher frequencies compared to the sensors and systems used during the nuclear-utility initiative in the U.S. This research led to new products for detection and quantification of valve leakage in oil & gas applications. Because of minimum leak threshold and accuracy concerns, non-intrusive acoustic valve leak measurement has remained an elusive goal for commercial nuclear power. Various general-purpose acoustic tools have been trialed to detect leakage with mixed results because of complications caused by plant and system acoustic characteristics. Several of today’s moderately successful check-valve diagnostic systems employ acoustic sensors and can detect the most likely event representing flow cutoff when a check-valve disc fully closes, but leak-rate quantification with any of these systems is not possible. Correlation methods and other AE analysis techniques that have been developed to quantify leakage in steam systems have been generalized as small, medium, and large leakage classifications with no clear criteria for these levels. During the last couple of years, nuclear-plant engineers responsible for programs for compliance with Appendix J, “Primary Reactor Containment Leakage Testing for Water-Cooled Power Reactors,” to Part 50, “Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,” of Title 10, “Energy,” of the Code of Federal Regulations (Appendix J to 10 CFR 50) have made extensive use of a new acoustic valve leak-detection system known as MIDAS Meter®. Appendix J valve testing (also known as Type C testing) requires that sections of nuclear-plant piping be isolated by closing a number of valves, thereby creating a confined pressure boundary. The isolated piping within the boundary is pressurized with approximately 344.7 kilopascals (kPa) [50 pounds per square inch (psi)] of air and the leak-tightness of the boundary is evaluated. When the isolated piping exhibits excess leakage or cannot maintain the test pressure, the valves creating the boundary are evaluated one by one to find the culprit leaker. The process of finding and correcting the problem valve can take from hours to several days and may become an outage critical-path activity. Appendix J engineers have enjoyed considerable success with their newfound ability to quickly and confidently identify the leaking valves with MIDAS Meter® and remove their test programs from the critical path. MIDAS Meter® is a high-frequency acoustic-emission-based system which includes algorithms that convert the acoustic emission signal to leak rate. The basic algorithms were first developed from the field results obtained during the early development work for UK oil & gas operators and refined over the next 20 years. Though not originally validated under a quality-assurance (QA) program of the 10 CFR 50 type, nuclear plants that own MIDAS Meter® have been eager to go beyond simple troubleshooting and use the leak quantification results for nuclear applications, including safety-related decisionmaking. In order to support owners and avoid improper application of this very successful new tool, Score Atlanta embarked on an extensive validation program consistent with 10 CFR Part 50 requirements. A purpose-built leak-test flow loop and valve simulator apparatus were constructed in the Atlanta facility and testing began in early 2013. To support Appendix J users, the air testing was performed first and completed in July 2013. The water testing followed and should be completed in early 2014. Numerous combinations of leak path, leak-path geometry, and differential pressure were created and evaluated during the air phase of the program. Pressure was limited to 1034 kPa [150 psi] for air testing. The water testing includes pressures up to 8,618 kPa [1,250 psi] and a similar number of varying leak paths and pressure test points. This paper discusses the preliminary results of the test program, including any special limitations required for use of AE-derived valve leak results in nuclear safety-related applications. The full results of the test program and guidance for nuclear safety-related use of the technology are expected to be available ahead of the 2014 ASME-NRC Valve Symposium. Paper published with permission.

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