Corrosion, fatigue and structural failure in the most aggressive service environment in engineering.
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Seawater service compresses timescales. Mechanisms that would take decades onshore — pitting, crevice attack, stress-corrosion cracking, coating breakdown followed by accelerated section loss — run far faster offshore, and often in combination. Distinguishing ordinary service degradation from a genuine defect is the recurring question in marine disputes.
Cross-cutting specializations most often engaged in marine and offshore work.
Pitting, crevice, galvanic, and microbiologically influenced corrosion — pipeline, tank, and vessel failures.
investigateBranching cracks from tensile stress plus a specific environment — chloride, caustic, ammonia, and sulfide SCC.
investigateFabrication defects and in-service cracking at welded joints — lack of fusion, hydrogen cracking, and lamellar tearing.
investigateCyclic-loading failures — beach marks, stress concentrations, and the crack that grew silently before it broke.
investigateDelayed, brittle fracture of high-strength steel from processing or in-service hydrogen — fasteners, plated parts, and sour service.
investigateDuctile and brittle fracture mechanics — fractography, toughness, and the origin of a one-time overload break.
investigateAccess is the practical constraint. Evidence is frequently underwater, in service, or on a vessel that has moved jurisdictions, so examination planning matters as much as the examination itself.
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