Specialized Services to the Pipeline Industry
Fitness for Purpose Evaluation
- Smart pig data analysis
- Demand-capacity and code compliance for burst, fracture, wrinkling, collapse
- Pipeline-soil interaction analysis
- Evaluation of corrosion and metal loss
- Full-scale pipe and/or component testing
- Recommendations for mitigative and/or repair programs
- Evaluation of ripples and wrinkles in pipeline cold bends
Concept and Design Studies
- Innovative design concept evaluation
- Key design parameters and load definition
- Preliminary structural design
- Structural design criteria development
- Highly Tensioned Suspended Pipeline (HTSP) spans
Risk & Reliability Assessment
- Evaluation of loading probabilities and design combinations
- Recommendations for mitigative designs and monitoring procedures
Arctic Pipelines
- Frost heave and thaw settlement design
- Bend design
- Design for offshore arctic loadings
- Reliability analysis
- Monitoring program design
- Strain and structural criteria development
Seismic Design of Pipelines and Stations
- Fault crossing analysis and design
- Traveling wave effects
- Dynamic spectral and time history analysis of piping systems and structures,
including pipe-on-bridge
- Liquefaction and landslide analysis
Testing Programs
- Design of structural testing programs
- Full scale or component testing
- Instrumentation design and data acquisition
- Data analysis and model correlation
Stress Analysis
- Complex pipe stress analysis
- Transient analysis of relief systems
- Vibration analysis and mitigation
- Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) evaluations
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