Engineering Consulting Projects. Solving, correcting, and preventing structural problems. API 579 / ASME-1 Fitness for Service, CFD Analysis, Engineering Design & Analysis to ASME Section III, VIII + Codes. We perform (thermal/ transient, stress, vibration & fatigue) finite element analysis to determine structural integrity to Engineering Codes including AWS, API and ASME.
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FEA design and (thermal, stress, vibration and fatigue) analysis – vessels & other components for nuclear radioactive waste cleanup.
FEA Design and Analysis – Pressure Vessel Components for Radioactive Waste Cleanup Read More »
Material characterization (chemical, microstructural and mechanical) performed on three continuous miner drive torque shafts for comparison purposes.
Material Characterizations of AISI-SAE 4140 Miner Torque Shafts Read More »
Engineering Review of the design, construction, and installation of a deflector plate used to prevent cross-flow from the LPCI across core components
Engineering Review of Design Changes in Taiwan Nuclear Plant Read More »
Assessment of metallurgy & welding procedures on P91 Heavy Wall Piping in a power plant. P91 is a steel for elevated temperature applications
Assessment of Metallurgy & Welding Procedures of P91 Heavy Wall Piping Read More »
API 579-1 / ASME FFS-1 (2007) Fitness-for-Service evaluation on a tank for a brewery.
API 579-1 / ASME FFS-1 Fitness for Service on a Brewery Tank Read More »
ASME Section VIII Design & Analysis – thermal, stress FEA analysis on elevated temperature/ pressure vessels to process nuclear waste.
ASME Section VIII Design & Analysis – Vessels Processing Nuclear Waste Read More »
Stress and Fatigue analysis of high cycle vessels that are used to produce virtually pure hydrogen.
Stress and Fatigue Analysis of High Cycle Vessels used to Produce Hydrogen Read More »
Frequency Response Testing of Compressor Turbine Vanes conducted to prevent mass loading and external damping effects
Frequency Response Testing of Compressor Turbine Vanes Read More »
Vibration and shock analysis on a shipboard heat exchanger. Heat exchangers were to be supported on rigid platforms that are attached to the process deck of the ship and therefore subjected to ship motion acceleration loads.
Vibration and Shock Analysis of Shipboard Heat Exchanger to Engineering Codes Read More »
Weld troubleshooting & redesign on a stainless steel heat exchanger with a limited fatigue life in a location of high stress concentration.
Weld Troubleshooting & Redesign of a Stainless Steel Heat Exchanger Read More »
Prediction of Thrust Chamber Life due to hot-gas-wall ligaments separating coolant & combustion gas subjected to severe thermal cycling
Prediction of Thrust Chamber Life on NASA Space Shuttle Main Engines Read More »
Seismic analysis to Section 132 of the UBC for a client that designs and installs fire protection systems.
Seismic Analysis on Fire Protection Systems to Uniform Building Code Read More »
FEA and fatigue / fracture analysis of the turbine shaft on hydroelectric plant exhibiting linear indications.
FEA & Fatigue Analysis – Hydroelectric Turbine Shaft Read More »
FEA design and (impact, thermal shock, and fatigue) analysis of pressure vessels and equipment subjected to high energy impact with a dual phase fluid at supersonic speed
FEA Design and Analysis of Large Scale Pressure Vessels under High Energy Impact Read More »
Failure Analysis and Redesign of Cracked Conveyor Ductwork
Failure Analysis & Redesign of Cracked Conveyor Ductwork Read More »
ASME Section VIII Div. 1 linear elastic finite element (FEA) analysis on a Low Pressure Feedwater Heater
ASME Section VIII Division 1 (FEA) Analysis on Feedwater Heater Read More »
Failure Investigation of the closure head on a horizontally mounted low pressure food process vessel.
Failure Investigation on Food Processing Pressure Vessel Head Read More »
Failure analysis of threaded joint casing at about 80-100 feet near the drill bit about 30-40 feet from the bottom of the hole.
Failed Oil / Gas Threaded Joint Casing Read More »
Design of Weld Overlay on 9 foot diameter 60 ft long Refinery Stripper Vessel
Design & Application of Inconel 625 Weld Overlay on a Refinery Vessel Read More »
Stress, vibration and fatigue (FEA) analysis on a bellows design. The 28-convolution bellows was designed to last for 5 years, or 13.14 billion cycles.
Stress, Vibration and Fatigue (FEA) Analysis on Bellows Read More »
Root cause analysis of a failed fan used to cool electronics – that occurred within two months of operation
Root Cause Failure Analysis on Electronics Cooling Fan Read More »
Longer than two football fields and 80 feet wide, a large steel paper rack storage facility was constructed with 110 foot tall hollow steel columns to hold over 100 million pounds of pallets of paper products. After two months in service, the automated facility collapsed and sparked a fire that burned over three weeks
Type 316L SS rotary valve impellers used in cheese curd production were evaluated to determine the cause of pitting corrosion
316L SS Rotary Valve Impellers – Corrosion / Metallurgical Evaluation Read More »
Cracks had developed on tube-to-tubesheet welds on a chemical reactor. We were asked to perform a thermal transient and stress analysis of the welds. This included the startup, controlled heatup and cool-down processes on the reactor with respect to the potential for creating leaks through the tube to tubesheet welds.
Cracked Tube-to-Tubesheet Welds on Chemical Reactor – Failure Analysis Read More »
Failure analysis and repair of Pressure Swing Absorber (PSA) Vessels – in service at a hydrogen plant – found to exhibit chevron cracks
Failure Analysis – Cracked Pressure Swing Absorber (PSA) Vessels Read More »
