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Vibration Engineering

Manage vibration and dynamic issues affecting your rotating equipment, pipework, and structures.

Prevent Vibration-Related Downtime

Improve operational safety, reduce downtime, mitigate risks, ensure compliance, and keep your onshore and offshore operations running smoothly with tailored vibration engineering services. We help prevent vibration-related hydrocarbon releases that pose significant risks and can lead to costly shutdowns and environmental damage.

Vibration Engineering

Tailored Services for Safe Operations

Integrate our vibration management and wider integrity services, enabling your operations to benefit from proactive and reactive solutions, comprehensive risk assessments, and continuous monitoring. Our global footprint with engineers and technicians already deployed on-site in key regions means your assets are covered around the clock and issues are addressed before they escalate.

On-Site Measurement and Troubleshooting

Vibration surveys, Operational Deflection Shape (ODS), and modal testing to identify vibration causes in pipework and structures.

Advanced Monitoring

Continuous vibration and stress monitoring systems, including intrinsically safe options.

Rotating Equipment Condition Monitoring

Monitoring program development and deployment of personnel-supported and automated monitoring systems.

Motion Amplification Analysis

Visualizes structural movements to diagnose vibration issues.

Acoustic Induced Vibration (AIV) Analysis

Analysis and mitigation of AIV to prevent fatigue cracking in high-pressure gas systems.

Flow Induced Vibration (FIV) Analysis

Comprehensive analysis and mitigation of FIV in piping systems, using measurements, calculations, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

Thermowell Vortex Induced Vibration (VIV) Analysis

Analysis and mitigation of thermowell VIV to prevent mechanical and sensing element failures.

Pulsation Analysis

Analysis and mitigation of pressure pulsations in piping systems.

Dynamic Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

FEA to assess structural dynamics, vibration, and stress in structures and piping.

Dynamic Stress and Fatigue Life Assessment

Fatigue analysis using S-N curves and fracture mechanics to predict component life.

Risk-Based Pipework Assessment to EI Guidelines

Screening assessment of mainline and small-bore connection pipework considering mechanical design and process conditions.

Engineered Solutions

Custom solutions to mitigate vibration, including structural modifications, damping, and isolation.

Anti-vibration Pipe Support Design

Bespoke support design to prevent fatigue failures in pipework subjected to vibration.

Vibration Monitoring Solutions

Our monitoring solutions deliver reliable vibration related data and help maintain your system integrity and reliability. The Oceaneering Vibration Management System (OVMS) Portable, OVMS Wireless monitoring system, and Long-Term Monitoring Systems (LTMS) provide create a cohesive and robust framework for effective vibration monitoring across scenarios and requirements.

OVMS Portable

Handheld screening tool for trained personnel under guidance from our vibration experts.

OVMS Wireless Monitoring

Ex-rated autonomous vibration monitoring triggers on schedule or in response to vibration events.

Long-Term Monitoring Systems

Continuous high-resolution monitoring of vibration and stress for critical systems.

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