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Australia: Asset Care Counts #13
20 April 2012
Remaining life assessment of pressure components: High temperature pressure equipment is subject to deterioration by fatigue and creep. AS3788 provides guidance for the assessment of the condition of pressure equipment to establish the safe remaining life. The assessment should be carried out when the component has reached 60% of its design life. Components that have no qualified design life should be assessed before 100,000 hours of operation.
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Australia: Asset Care Counts #12
27 February 2012
Acoustic Emission: In simple terms, Acoustic Emission (AE) testing is to an integrity engineer what a stethoscope is to a doctor. AE instrumentation is designed to detect the structural or liquid born sound generated by a source within a material. The sound can be caused by crack initiation or extension, crack tip yielding, corrosion product spalling, turbulent flow or leakage, friction or fretting, matrix cracking, delamination, disbonding or fibre breakage. AE testing is totally non-intrusive and its ability to assess the integrity of assets while they are still in service provides major benefits to asset owners and operators.
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Australia: Asset Care Counts #11
25 January 2012
ALS Industrial Division has developed the capability to
investigate concrete structures and analyse for the full range
of factors that have a negative impact on the construction
material.
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Australia: Asset Care Counts #10
11 November 2011
Microbial Induced Corrosion detection in Piping and Pipelines
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ALS acquires Austpower Engineering Pty Ltd
14 October 2011
On Thursday 13 October 2011, ALS completed the acquisition of Austpower Engineering Pty Ltd (Austpower), based in Newcastle, NSW.
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Australia: Asset Care Counts #9
26 August 2011
Vibration analysis is a proven technique for assessing the actual
condition of operating a plant without costly interruptions to
plant operation. Through this technique unplanned failures
can be avoided and damaged components can be changed
out shortly before failure, maximising their operating life.
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Australia: Asset Care Counts #8
21 July 2011
ALS Industrial develops unique application of the IRIS Ultrasonic
Inspection technique for client.
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Australia: Asset Care Counts #7
28 June 2011
Ensuring boiler tube integrity is a key element in the reliable operation of a successful power generating plant. ALS Industrial can ensure boiler tube integrity is at its best. Boiler tube failures are responsible for more unplanned outages than any other single cause.
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ALS Industrial and Innospection Sign Technical Partnership Agreement
9 May 2011
ALS Industrial, a leading engineering-led asset integrity service provider, and Innospection, a technology company specializing in advanced electromagnetic inspection techniques such as Saturation Low Frequency Eddy Current (SLOFEC™), today announced the signing of an exclusive technical partnership agreement. Through this agreement, ALS Industrial will provide advanced electromagnetic inspection services using SLOFEC™ for onshore and offshore topside applications in technical collaboration with Innospection throughout Australia. From its base in Europe, Innospection will directly service the Australian subsea sector
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Australia: Asset Care Counts #6
6 May 2011
Kingpins used for mechanical coupling of articulated vehicles, particularly the prime movers and trailers, are
subjected to design certification to the highest standard of safety for military applications.
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Australia: Asset Care Counts #5
6 March 2011
Highly stressed components of steam turbine power plants can suffer from “creep” degradation due to cyclic stress and exposure to high temperatures. There are metallographic techniques available to evaluate creep distress by using the correlation of microstructure of the original material to the microstructure of material in service and also by measuring hardness.
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