Innovation Resources
Collect Critical Data In the Most Remote Environments
Solar Power and Energy Harvesting Enables Long and Short Term Data Acquisition in the Most Remote Locations
Stress Engineering Services routinely configures remote, un-staffed data collection and monitoring systems in the most extreme environments and remote locations for a broad range of industrial applications. These systems can include a wide range of sensor types – including: strain gages, accelerometers, thermocouples, load cells or pressure transducers, regardless of the lack of infrastructure where the measurement or monitoring is to take place. The measurement and monitoring systems are autonomous and fully secure.
Measure Real World Forces on Almost Anything
Strain Gage Instrumentation is used to determine actual loads that are carried and transferred through products, machinery and packages. The most common reasons to apply strain gages include: assessing the root causes of failures, developing specifications for new equipment, determining if the capacity of a particular piece of equipment can be safely increased or evaluating the opportunity to increase the throughput of a particular process.
Address the Challenge of Elastomers (and Polymers) in HPHT Service
Stress Engineering Services has expanded conventional environmental compatibility testing methodology to include testing protocols that enable service life estimates. There is a very bright light shining on elastomer performance when used in critical oilfield applications. Upstream high pressure, high temperature elastomer sealing applications are marked by harsh service conditions: high pressures, high temperatures, contact with hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and a plethora of engineered, particle-laden fluids that also include aggressive chemistry. The demand to understand true in-service performance has never been greater.
Validation of Creep Testing Equipment & Methodology
Stress Engineering’s Remaining Life Assessment Laboratory- Responding to the needs of the refining, chemical and power industries to conduct remaining life assessments on aging plants, SES set out to develop a state-of-the-art laboratory to generate the required high temperature creep data. Now calibrated against independent standards, the creep testing methods and machines have been demonstrated to deliver accurate data.
Analytical Lab Services - Polymers, Elastomers & Composites
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
Thermomechanical Analysis (TMA)
Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
SES provides physical, chemical, mechanical and thermal analysis of a broad range of materials. From the non-metallic world of polymers, elastomers, and polymer based composites to liquids and lubricants, and also traditional metallic materials, SES has the experience to identify and develop the test method required, conduct the testing, and interpret the results.
Medical Failure Analysis
When a product is failing, a manufacturing line goes down or a product is recalled, you want the most experienced failure investigators on your team.
The Value of Independent Third Party Reviews
Strategically-timed reviews by an independent expert can identify, analyze and evaluate the most critical aspects of design performance. Design reviews provide medical device manufacturers the clearest possible picture of a design’s strengths and shortcomings. When completed properly, these reviews will find problems before investing capital in manufacturing systems, avoid costly rework, and prevent failures in the market.
Determining Device Reliability
Using a tightly integrated approach to testing and data analysis, SES can quantitatively predict the reliability of your product. It is common to have only weeks to determine how a product that is supposed to last for many years will perform in service. Reliability issues are further complicated by the effects of sterilization and sustained pre-load, both of which impact shelf life and long-term storage.
Why Failure Analysis?
A broken pipe, valve or bolt can be devastating to personnel safety, continued service, and operating revenue. Identifying the root cause of the failure, whether it is due to manufacturing defects, maintenance practices, operating parameters, or is design related, makes it possible to develop a deliberate plan for corrective action and avoid another failure in the future.
Explosion Design of Powder Processing Equipment
The processing of organic powders brings with it the possibility of explosion. The chance of explosion is further increased in operations where volatile solvents are evaporated from the powder
during drying operations. In all of these cases, the design of powder processing equipment must include an explosion-protection strategy.
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