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..
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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