Structural components/Single client projects/Case studies
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Single Client Projects (SCPs)
To respect confidentiality, generic titles of selected projects are given below:
- ECA of failed well casing hanger
- ECA of racking pinions
- Property assessment of bolts
- Fitness-for-purpose of titanium alloy clamps
- Fatigue performance of GRE casissons
- In-situ electronic testing of bolts
- Monitoring fatigue crack growth in crane pedestal
- Fatigue analysis of caisson
- Assessment of the integrity of an anchor chain
- Bolt failure analysis
- Examination of fractured chain link
- Investigation of failed impellor
- Investigation of failed winch wire
- Failure of anchor chain
- Cracking of crane slewing ring bolts
- Failure to condensate pump stud bolts
- Hydrophone failure analysis
- Assessment of failed aluminium gangway
- Corrosion failures of feed water valve studs
- Failure of lattice boom crane
- Failure in a flare stack
- Analysis of socket welds
- ECA of large 25% Cr duplex casting
- Reassessment of process vessel heating coils
- Condition assessment and fitness-for-purpose of hot gas path turbine components
- Fatigue assessment of plant reactor coils
- Advice on NDT of welds in Inconel tubes
- Creep in 1 ¼ Cr steel
- Failure investigation of superheater tubes
- Examination of failed superheater support brackets
- Examination of cracked flanges
- Examination of failed piston rod from a compressor unit
- Examination of securing nuts from turbine casing
- Cracking in a cryofit coupling
- Examination of a heat exchanger nozzle
- Examination of a boiler header nozzle
- Advice on repair welding of tube bundles
Full list of downstream single clients projects
Case studies:
These case studies were written in collaboration with the customer concerned.
- Underwater friction for electrical couplings
- Winch shaft failures diagnosed
- Solder materials for use in 'down hole' loggers
- A problem well thought through
- Corrosion testing for seawater service