Scope of Services

Corrosion Engineering
- Corrosion failure investigations
- Materials selection and compatibility studies
- Assessments of a materials’ susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement (HE)
- Corrosion testing: Exposure (mass loss) testing, plant and laboratory

Welding Engineering
- Developing and specification of welding procedures
- Welding procedure qualification records (PQR)
- Welder qualification/coding
- Heat treatment procedures
- Investigating and solving welding related problems

Plant Integrity Assessment / RBI
- Review integrity of existing plants; (replication, hardness testing and degradation calculation)
- Assess remaining life of critical items of equipment
- Develop maintenance / replacement strategy
- Risk based inspection
- Boiler condition assessments

Quality Engineering
- Legislative compliance: Occupational Health and Safety Act: Pressure Equipment Regulation
- Health and safety standards
- Quality control plans & Fabrication test plans
- Heat treatment procedures
- Non-Destructive testing or Evaluations (NDE’s)
- Welding procedures & welder qualifications
- Dimensional inspections
- Weld inspections
- Pressure testing
- Pickling and passivation of stainless steels
- Coating inspection
- Code data books
- End of job and final documentation

Materials Testing
- Mechanical testing:
- Creep testing (Omega and accelerated creep rupture testing)
- Tensile testing
- Bend testing
- Impact testing
- Fracture toughness testing
- Hardness testing
- Electrochemical testing
- Metallographic assessment of ferrous and non-ferrous materials
- Cleanliness of steel
- Grain size determination
- Macro-etching
- Ferrite measurements
- Positive material identification (PMI)

Failure Analysis Engineering
- Fire damage assessments
- Degradation and damage categorisation
- Safety hazard and risk analysis
- Detailed failure analysis to determine root cause
- Comprehensive, detailed reports with recommendations of preventative measures
- Expert witness in case of warranty claims/disputes

Heat Treatment Services
- Development of heat treatment procedures to ASME and EN ISO requirements
- On-site (local) post weld heat treatment
- Evaluation of non-compliant production PWHT procedures










