How Altran Solves Problems
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Whether it is a transformer failure or a steam line vibration problem our team of professionals is ready to seek out solutions that get to the root cause of any failure or problem. Engineering investigations often bring out our diverse talents to improve performance, reliability or cost effectiveness. In regulated industries such as the nuclear power industry the engineering basis needed to approve a design change, develop a new product or understand a failure will require the types of diverse capabilities and skills offered at Altran Solutions. These investigations may require finite analytical modeling, a laboratory mock-up or engineering consulting necessary to meet regulatory or code requirements.
For one utility customer, we resolved a steam line vibration problem that had plagued them since plant start-up. After performing data and acoustic analyses, we correlated the results with testing to identify the source of hydraulic pressure variations. We continued testing and performed a structural analysis, again, correlating the data with testing to define the bases for heightened vibration. Altran Solutions identified the problem quickly and cost-effectively and achieved our goal: to predict changes in response to adjustments to the design.
Altran Solutions' capabilities encompassed failure analysis, in the laboratory, to determine the cause of prior support failures; hydraulic analysis, to identify the source of the pressure transients; and structural analysis, to define the anticipated response of the piping.
The Benefit: The steam lines had been vibrating significantly since plant start-up. Several attempts to analyze and resolve these problems were made by the client. Altran Solutions was brought in to troubleshoot the problem quickly and cost-effectively for the client.