Regulatory Compliance
Whether it is a transformer failure or a steam line vibration, our professionals seek out solutions that get to the root cause of any problem to improve performance, reliability or cost effectiveness. In regulated industries such as the nuclear power industry the engineering foundation required for a design change, to develop a new product or understand a failure will demands the diverse capabilities and skills Altran Solutions offers. To meet regulatory or code requirements, these investigations may necessitate finite analytical modeling, a laboratory mock-up or engineering consulting.
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.