Plant Life Assessment and Inspection & Maintenance Planning
Do you wish or need to extend the life of your plant?
We have extensive experience in condition assessment and optimising plant life.
We do this by:
- identifying rates of deterioration through identification of key mechanisms
- inspecting and measuring to gauge the extent of creep, fatigue or corrosion damage.
- determing the life consumed and the remaining safe service life.
- making recommendations for inspection, maintenance to optimise life
We use a well proven methodology to assess the residual life of materials from a knowledge of creep properties, degradation processes, material condition, thermal history and operating stress. For more precise prediction on critical components, accelerated creep tests can be carried out either on miniature samples removed non-destructively from the operating component, or on full size samples.
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For further information contact Dick Coldham on 03 9565 9888 (International +61 3 9565 9888) or Bruce Ham on 03 5132 1500 (International +61 3 5132 1500) or John Edgley on 07 3423 4300 (International +61 7 3423 4300) or click on the contacts button below. | |
Case study
Life assessment of 350MW steam turbine rotor and casing
We inspected the unit to identify the expected rates of crack propagation. We found the remnant life to be beyond the OEM design and specification. This meant that the power station can safely operate this unit for some considerable time to come. With an understanding of the potential roles of crack growth the time between inspections was also set.
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