Fitness-for-service assessment is a multi-disciplinary engineering approach that is used to determine if the equipment is fit to continue operation for some desired future period.     - American Society of Mechanical Engineers Often times, major equipment in process plant are exposed to corrosive environments and/or elevated temperatures and may possess sustained damage, defects or flaws. These equipment cost exponentially high and thus many company’s want to predict if the

Analyzing failures gives an opportunity to improve whereas analyzing a situation gives an opportunity to prevent failures. Similarly, in any industry, there are many failures that can be prevented just by analyzing the present condition or even detect a problem at an early stage to reduce the impact of a failure. When we talk about Process Industry, the cost of any Equipment or Asset can be exceedingly high; any casualty related to this equipment can cause huge cost implica

What comes to your mind when you think about innovation? For TCR, Innovation is utilizing the latest technology so creatively that a job can be done with more efficiency and produce faster results that in turn help our clients & country to improve profitability, reduce shutdown and improve safety. Our R&D team works day and night to create sustainable innovations in our field and we, as a team is proud to share with you some of the major innovations by TCR: ARTis (Automated

“Those who cannot remember the past are going to repeat it” - Dr Peter McClean Millar Major assets in any industry are the heart and soul of that industry that requires continuous care and maintenance. Often times, an industry purchases an asset and start utilizing it with a casual approach. This casual approach can lead to huge production loss, unplanned shutdowns and also impact the safety of people working in that plant. So the big question is: “Is it possible to IMPROVE

Sensitization and Intergranular Corrosion of Stainless Steels An Insight. What are stainless steels? Stainless steels are alloys of iron and carbon containing a minimum of about 10.5% chromium. The presence of chromium ensures the formation of a ultra-thin, invisible, protective, self-healing passive film on the steel surface, mainly made up of chromium oxides and hydroxides; Cr2O3 and Cr(OH)3. This oxide film is insoluble, compact and adheres well to the substrate thereby p

Impact Testing A comparison of Charpy and Izod Impact Tests. The impact test has been used extensively in mechanical testing of steel products, in research, and in procurement specifications for over three decades. Where correlations with fracture mechanics parameters are available, it is possible to specify CVN (Charpy V-notch) toughness values that would ensure elasticplastic or plastic behavior for fracture of fatigue cracked specimens subjected to minimum operating tempe

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF): A technique of material characterization. Introduction: X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) is a popular method for the qualitative and quantitative determination of the elemental composition of a material sample. XRF is similar to atomic absorption spectrometry and optical emission spectrometry except that the sample is not required to be dissolved in a solution to be analyzed. The sample for XRF analysis may be in the form of a sol