We have a team of multidisciplinary experts able to deal with questions concerning the design, manufacture and in-service monitoring of equipment, and capable of analysing the causes of failure. On the strength of such skills, the team is regularly consulted by legal experts in the aftermath of major incidents. The structures handled by our specialists may or may not be welded. They are generally metallic and come from very diverse industrial sectors: petrochemicals, civil engineering, motor industry, etc.
The choices and approaches adopted by Institut de Soudure in this field are directed by Alain Michel, a world-renowned "Fellow" expert. Our experts.
On-site metallurgical testing by metallographic replicas
Studies on the nocivity of defects or the fitness for purpose
Design studies and stress calculations
Welding quality recommendations and audits
Metallurgical investigations and failure analyses
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) analyses
Structural stress calculations by digital or analytical methods
Failure or behaviour simulation tests
Metallographic examinations
Mechanical tests, chemical analyses, corrosion tests