Our ability to predict how our products will behave, respond to, and perform in any circumstance give us the ability to engineer umbilical solutions that reduce operational risk.
Reducing Risk – Building Confidence
Our commitment to reducing client risk is clearly demonstrated with the recent $2 million investment in the development of a state-of-the-art Test, Qualification & Reliability (TQR) facility in Rosyth, Scotland.
Working to ISO 13628-5:2009 and AP 17N, the Group provides an extensive range of testing (design validation – qualification and/or verification) and reliability (performance prediction) services, including:
- Combined Torsion balance and tension test (with axial stiffness verification and end strength terminations tensile test)
- Bend stiffness tests
- Combined tension with bend test (static)
- Umbilical squeeze/crush test
- Internal/External friction factor assessment
- Impact test
- Fatigue test
- Free-flooding rate verification test
- Axial compression test
- Materials and components fatigue test
- Materials and components tensile test
- Reliability analysis
- Strain sensing and measurement
The TQR Group, part of OUS, is specifically tasked with the advancement of our overall knowledge and understanding of our products, based on the analysis of test results and reliability models, to support engineering and business decisions, and to
continue to build the clients’ confidence in our products’ technical capabilities.
