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The reliability and safe design of all engineered structures is vitally important to prevent catastrophic failure and ensure continuous profitable operation.
The consequences of structural failure can be tragic in terms of loss of life and financially crippling due to loss of production and revenue.
Optimisation of both capital and operating expenditure is of strategic importance. Combined with increasing regulatory demands, this requires businesses to develop solutions to design problems and to assess the structural integrity and performance of structures, plant, components and equipment with confidence.
Integrity management has been an integral part of TWI for more than 60 years and TWI has established a world class reputation for supplying high calibre design and consultancy services to clients in the oil and gas, power, defence, transportation, petrochemical, construction and other industry sectors.
The portfolio of services include failure investigation, root cause analysis, litigation, consultancy, specialised software products, mechanical and corrosion testing and the development of integrity management solutions.
Specific capabilities include:
- Structural integrity assessment.
- Evaluation of the significance of weld flaws.
- Failure mechanism determination.
- Risk based inspection.
- Corrosion management, including sour service.
- Life extension of ageing structures.
- Residual stress measurement and reduction of distortion.
- Numerical modelling of structures, joints, welding processes and NDT technologies.
- Provision of expert advice on weldability, avoiding fabrication cracking, materials selection and fabrication approaches.
- Assessment of high and low temperature performance.
- Specialist technical workshops.
- Extensive mechanical, fatigue, fracture, sulphide stress cracking, corrosion, and stress corrosion testing facilities, with the ability to develop bespoke tests to address customer-specific problems.
For more information please contact: integrityandcorrosion@twi.co.uk