November 1998

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HP Reliability: Use impact-echo techniques to determine foundation soundness

Major machinery foundations suffer from occasional cracks and other defects that detract from achieving industry's reliability goals. In a recent case, a petrochemical company in the Midwestern U.S. o..

Bloch, Heinz P., Hydrocarbon Processing Staff

Major machinery foundations suffer from occasional cracks and other defects that detract from achieving industry's reliability goals. In a recent case, a petrochemical company in the Midwestern U.S. obtained advice from two well-known conventional repair contractors regarding the condition of one such foundation. Both companies opined that expensive and time-consuming foundation repairs were needed to ensure the machinery's continued operational reliability. But, the owner's reliability engineers had done their homework. They knew that Highland Park, Illinois-based Universal Construction Testing, Ltd. (tel: (847) 831-5343) was available to perform nondestructive impact-echo surveys cou

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