
In-Service Performance helps to identify the root cause of component failure and enables the development of durable designs. Please ask for a quote!
Even though nowadays components with a certain degree of responsibility are designed and manufactured to international standards, these components sometimes fail, and the root cause of the failure needs to be discovered in order to be resolved. How we do it The question isn’t so much “why” the component failed, but rather “how did the component die?”
TECNALIA’s In-Service Performance team specialise in Forensic Engineering, which is a field that combines multiple skills such as corrosion, fractography, metallurgy, metallography, material resistance, structural integrity and requires different types of laboratory equipment to identify the root cause of the failure.
There are many existing pathologies, but they can be grouped into four fields:
Each pathology has its own features.
Once the failure process has been established and the different mechanisms and, therefore, the responsible parameters, have been identified, they need to be weighted by means of calculations, tests, etc. in order to identify the root cause of the failure.
The solutions to be implemented to guarantee in-service performance and durability come from Materials Engineering and are grouped into two blocks: