Performing finite element analysis (FEA) to Codes including API, AWS and ASME – ensuring equipment structural integrity, safety and reliability. These analyses include thermal/ transient, stress, vibration/shock and fatigue.
The benefits of FEA analysis are:
- Identifying equipment response to mechanical/ thermal loads to determine design/ material deficiencies – and designing subsequent improvements
- Quantifying design cycles, keeping production costs low through design optimization
- Uncovering potential sources of operational/field failures
- Improving operability and minimizing costs
We have supported clients in industries including Petrochemical, Mining, Manufacturing, Transportation, Aerospace and Energy.
Examples:
- Pressure Vessels
- Heat Exchangers
- Tumblers
- Piping
- Skids
- Compressors
- Pumps/Valves
- Cyclones
- Turbines/Shafts
- Assemblies
- Fittings
- Resistors
- Tooling
- Actuators
- Enclosures
Types of Analysis
- Stress Analysis
- Vibration & Fatigue
- Fitness for Service
- Fracture Analysis
- Design Optimization
- Fabrication Process Evaluation
- Heat Transfer
- Thermal Cycling
- Creep Ratcheting
- Linear/ Nonlinear
- Computational Fluid Mechanics
- Flow-Induced Vibrations
- Water Hammer
- Fluid Flow Analyses
- Thermal/Transient
- Shock & Impact
- Safety Evaluations
- Elevated Temperature
- Structural Integrity
ASME Codes
- B&PV Section III Class 1, 2 and 3 vessels and components
- B&PV Section VIII Div. 1, 2 and 3 vessels
- B&PV Sections IX and XI
- ASME B15, B16
- ASME B31.1, B31.3, +
- ASME Below the Hook BTH-1 & B30.20
Additionally, we have worked with Codes including API, ASTM and AWS. Finite element analysis requires a working knowledge of engineering mechanics and materials principles to get the answer right – the first time. Our professional engineers are licensed in numerous States – and multi-disciplined in areas of materials, design, metallurgy & manufacturing, each with more than 25 years of experience.
