This particular client often uses our services to validate design modifications to plant equipment. Their equipment is used to transport large sheets of glass from the production line to the shipping bays. Failure of the equipment during a lift operation can result in severe injury or death due to glass shards or the payload.
We first […]
A client approached us with a difficult electronics packaging problem. Their customer required a commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) board to be included in a device that must pass the MilSpec random response envelope for a particular aircraft. Since the COTS board could not survive the vibration unless the enclosure provided shock and vibration isolation, the objective […]
A client was experiencing failure in a cantilevered shaft which supported a heavy spool that was subject to frequent rapid starts and stops. The initial design incorporated a a 3″ diameter shaft that was supported by two bearings with a drive gear halfway between the bearings. A larger, 5″ diameter shaft was fillet welded onto […]
A client recently engaged our services to design hanger flanges to satisfy a prescribed load combination for each size. A hanger flange is a joint in a pipeline whose primary purpose is to react the axial load below the hanger flange into some structure (hence the term hanger). The requirements were that the design satisfy […]
Assume you wanted to deliver something via capillary tubing from topside to the producing zone(s) and there is (will be) a tubing retrievable sub-surface safety valve. You need a mechanism to bypass the safety valve without compromising it’s function. BJ-Services/Dyna Coil division has developed a technology that allows an operator to inject chemicals past […]
It’s difficult to comprehend the magnitude of the waves developed during a major hurricane. The hurricanes that wreaked havoc on the US Gulf Coast left plenty of evidence in their wake of their destructive potential. Offshore structures received considerable damage from the waves and wind. Older platforms which set cellar deck elevations based on older […]
For the past seven years, we have been using a relatively static site. We found that updating the site was a task in the “important but not urgent” quadrant. Thus our web presence was indeed rather static. We decided to change course and implement a site based on Wordpress. We currently use Wordpress on our […]