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More than 90,000 square feet of test lab space located on 92 acres of land in scenic Waller, Texas. This facility is fully equipped with the expertise and resources to simulate operational conditions for a variety of industries, applications and materials.
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Waller Testing Facility
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Company Overview
Metallurgical Testing
Corrosion Engineering
Non-Metallic Materials
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Creep Testing
Forensic Investigations
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Membrane Testing Facility
Full-Scale Testing
Materials Testing
Flow and Erosion Testing
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Founded in 1972, Stress Engineering Services is an independent, employee-owned consulting engineering firm that provides professional engineering services to a variety of industries worldwide.
About Us
Engineering Disciplines
MARINE
PIPELINES
MECHANICAL
ELECTRICAL
MATERIALS
CIVIL
TESTING
SUBSEA
2020 Activity
2319
Projects
792
Clients
Our company has built a sound reputation of unsurpassed technical excellence and superior customer service by employing highly trained and experienced professionals with the highest standard of performance.
Our Staff
Total Employees
Avg. Years Experience
(Masters / PhD's)
Number of Engineers
Avg. Years Tenure
Engineers w/ PE Licenses
318
24.1
173
110
61%
9.9
Advanced Degrees
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Waller
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
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Locations
Houston Campus
Cincinnati Facility
New Orleans Facility
Calgary Office
Stress Engineering Services Canada
Los Angeles Office
Pressure
Fatigue
Temperature
High Pressure / High Temperature
Noise / Vibration
Combined Load Testing
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Load / Force
• Tension: up to 6 million lbs • Compression: up to 4.5 million lbs • Bending: up to 1,000,000 ft-lbs • Internal (Gas) Pressure: up to 32,000 psi • Internal (Liquid) Pressure: up to 60,000 psi • External (Liquid) Pressure: up to 30,000 psi • Temperature: -75°F to 700°F
• Tension and Compression: up to 150,000 lbs • Temperatures: from Cryogenic to 2000°F • Fatigue, Fracture, and Component Testing • Saturated or Fully-Immersed Environments • Impact Testing: up to 12.7 ft/sec velocity and 223 ft-lbs energy
Material Coupon Testing
Pressure Testing
• Internal and External Hydrostatic Tests: • Internal pressurization up to 60,000 psi • External pressurization up to 30,000 psi
• Internal and External Fluid Heating: up to 1500°F, as well as other ranges for specialty liquid applications
• Large Diameter Pipe Collapse and Burst Tests
• Product Containers and Packaging Tests
• Continuous Monitoring of Alternating Fatigue Stresses
• Testing of Seals, Wellscreens, Umbilical Cables, Subsea Connectors, Instrumentation, Chambers, and Vessels
• Full-Scale Component, Small-Scale Component, and Material Coupon
• Complex and Mixed Loading Scenarios
• Cracking and Crack Growth Assessment
• Corrosion Effects
• Elevated Temperature and Chemical Exposure
• Four-Point Rotational Bending Testing
Fatigue Testing
• Drill String Friction Testing
• Casing and Riser Wear Testing
• Resonant Bending Fatigue Testing
Temperature Testing
• Fire Exposure, Controlled Thermal Cycling up to 1200°F
• Cold and Cryogenic Tests: • Testing of tensile coupons and full-scale pipe sections with temperatures as low as -320°F • Full-scale testing of compressed gas transportation tanks at temperatures as low as -69°F • Circulating fluid at -40°F to quantify the impact on the inner pipe structure
• High Pressure / High Temperature (HPHT)
• High Temperature Creep Testing
High Pressure / High Temperature Testing
• General developmental testing, qualification testing, cycle testing, and failure testing under combined loads of pressure, tension/compression, bending, and temperature • Tubular qualification testing per ISO 13679/API 5C5 with pressure, tension/compression, bending, and temperature • Valves, chokes, seals, and connector system qualification testing per API 6A, Annex F (PR2) and API 17D
• Equipment capabilities for combined load testing: • Gas pressures to 45,000 psi or higher and liquid pressures to 60,000 psi or higher • Tension to 6,000,000 lb and compression to 4,700,000 lb and beyond • Bending to 13,500,000 ft-lb • Temperatures to 700°F or higher
Noise / Vibration Testing
• Sound Pressure Levels
• Flow-Induced Vibration
• Force Response Vibration
• Vortex-Induced Vibration
• Experimental Modal Analysis
• Turbulence-Induced Vibration
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• Custom Flow Testing Capabilities
• Virtually Any Mud/Frac Media
• Suspended Particles
• Flow Rate Control: gpm to 1,000+ BPM
• Temperature: -60°F to 1,100°F
• Pressure up to 20 ksi Control
• 24 Hour Operations, Multi-Week Tests
• Single-pass up to 100 gpm @ 2,000 psig
• Multi-pass up to 150 gpm @ 3,000 psig
• Up to 20,000 ppmw (2% by mass)
• Full-Scale and Sub-Scale Testing
• Coupon Erosion
• Nozzle Erosion
• Direct Impingement
• Large and Small Tools
• Typically No Viscosifier
Erosion
• Casing: 7 in. to 11.875 in.
• Lateral Load: 10,000 ft-lbs
• Rotary Speed: 155 RPM
• Tool Joint Size: 3.75 in. L and 4.5 in. to 7 in. DIA
• Tool Joint Material: Steel | Hard Metal | Composites
Casing Wear
In addition, our Houston lab is equipped with state-of-the-art scanning electron microscopy, EDS, electron backscatter diffraction, and x-ray diffraction capabilities.
Our experienced laboratory staff provides standard metallurgical testing including:
Fractography | metallography | hardness testing | mechanical testing
oil & gas | pipeline | refining | petrochemical | manufacturing | consumer products | consulting
Our metallurgical laboratories are supported by our staff of metallurgical/materials engineers with decades of experience in a wide variety of industries such as:
Our metallurgical laboratories are also backed by our extensive full-scale mechanical testing abilities with over 100,000 square feet of laboratory space and load frames up to 6 million pounds in capacity.
• Chemical Analysis
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Failure Analysis
• Forensic Investigations
• Materials Selection
• Materials Testing
• Metallurgical Laboratory Services
• Fabrication and Welding
Fully-equipped metallurgical laboratory facilities including:
overhead crane | climate controlled | large laydown areas
Houston Campus - Building 3
• Advanced Corrosion Laboratory
• Custom Corrosion Testing
• H2S and HF Environments
• MIC qPCR Testing and Consulting
• Corrosion Control/Inhibitor Testing
• Jet Impingement Testing
• Standard NACE Testing
• Autoclaves
Corrosion Testing in Sweet (CO ) or Sour (H S) Conditions
Coatings Testing
Research and Testing Strengths
Experimental Qualifications
Customized Corrosion Testing
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Laboratory Testing Services
• Stirred autoclave (to 1700 psi at 450°F) • Flow accelerated corrosion using jet impingement techniques • Electrochemical testing in glassware and autoclaves at high temperature and pressure • Linear Polarization Resistance (LPR), Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), Electrochemical Noise (ECN, EN) • Potentiodynamic, Potentiostatic and Galvanostatic Polarization • Corrosion inhibitor evaluation, including critical concentrations and inhibitor persistency • Corrosion under heat transfer conditions, including electrochemical capability • Corrosion in controlled low oxygen environments (ppb level) • Under deposit corrosion evaluation, including electrochemical capability • Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI)
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• Crevice corrosion and pitting • Cathodic protection requirements; galvanic anode performance and qualification • Stress corrosion cracking (SCC); sulfide stress cracking (SSC) • Acoustic Emission (AE) capability • C-ring, 4-point bent beam, double cantilever beam (DCB) • Galvanic corrosion evaluation • NACE standard tests, including: • NACE TM0177 – Sulfide Stress Cracking (SSC); Method B, C and D • NACE TM0284 – Hydrogen Induced Cracking (HIC) • ASTM standard tests, including: • ASTM G 48 – Stainless steel pitting and crevice corrosion in ferric chloride solution • ASTM G 150 – Critical pitting temperature (CPT) of stainless steels
• Full Immersion Coatings Evaluation • Cathodic Disbonding • Cold wall Effect Evaluation • Electrochemical and Acoustic Emission (AE) Monitoring and Evaluation
• Extensive experience in designing and conducting corrosion, cracking and materials qualification experiments. • Unique corrosion test methods to solve specific corrosion problems. • Flow effects and flow accelerated corrosion using jet impingement. • Evaluation of flow regime effects and prediction of flow effects on corrosion. • Corrosion inhibitor testing, critical inhibitor concentration and inhibitor persistency. • Unique coating tests using acoustic emission techniques. • Unique testing methods for corrosion in specific chemical process environments. • Fracture mechanics testing.
• Full immersion coatings evaluation • Cathodic disbonding • Cold wall effect evaluation
• Electrochemical and acoustic emission (AE) monitoring and evaluation
• Research and testing conducted as: • Innovative test methods, design and implementation of specialized techniques.
– Contracts for specific client projects. – Support for engineering, consulting, expert witness and failure analysis. – Government, university and technical society sponsored research.
– Results more applicable to actual service environments. – Avoids over conservative materials selection. – Provides accurate, rapid screening and quality control
• Specialist in the design, operation and interpretation of customized corrosion test methods. • Tests correlated to specific process environments. • Fitness for service evaluation. • Flow tests applied to specific process systems. • Corrosion testing under controlled heat transfer conditions.
We combine state-of-the-art scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis with a comprehensive level of materials engineering expertise to help clients understand how materials behave. Our engineers apply these extensive SEM capabilities and resources to:
• Identify failure modes such as fatigue, stress cracking, and hydrogen embrittlement. • Evaluate and photograph surfaces, particles, defects, and the structure of engineering materials at magnifications to 100,000X. • Measure the chemical composition of whatever is being examined. • Identify and evaluate the crystalline structure of materials and how manufacturing processes and services influences it.
Integrated Chemical Analysis by Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy Crystallography and Orientation Imaging Microscopy by Electron Backscatter Diffraction
Failure Analysis | Fractography | Characterization of Surfaces | Microstructural Analysis Nanoscience | Digital Image Analysis | Particle Analysis | Litigation Support
• Large chamber accommodating smples up to 7.2” dia by 5.3” tall and weighing up to 18.7 lbs
• Secondary, backscattered, and forward scattered electron imaging
• Magnifications of < 1X to 100,000X
• Low vacuum, environmental operation for nonconductive samples without need for coating
• Sputter coater for preparing nonconductive samples for high vacuum examination
Features:
• Sour-Service Testing
• Fracture Toughness Testing
• Small-Scale Component and Assembly Characterization
• Component Testing
• Cyclic Fatigue and Fracture Testing
• Tensile and Compression Testing
• ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 Certified Polymer Laboratory
• Polymer Lab Standardized Testing
• Materials Characterization • Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) • Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) • Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) • Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) • Thermomechanical Analysis (TMA)
• Chemical Compatibility Including H2S or High Vacuum Examination
• Environmental / Remaining Life Testing • Accelerated Aging Testing • Creep Testing Facility
• Material Selection and Optimization
• Wet Chemistry
• Accelerated Aging Testing
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry
• Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
• Thermogravimetric Analysis
• Thermomechanical Analysis
Creep Testing Facility
• Electro-hydraulic and electro-mechanical machines for testing subcomponents under cyclic loading
• Relaxation, constant strain rate tests and block loading to simulate two shift operation
• ASTM standards and non-standard creep tests
Dead Load Frames
80+
Load Testing up to
100 kips
Temperatures up to
2200° F
• Staff Laboratory Photographer/Videographer
• Skilled Metallurgical Engineers and Technicians
• Scanning Electron Microscope Operator
• Shipping/Receiving Staff Trained in Forensic Traceability Requirements
• Supervision by Licensed Professional Metallurgical Engineers for Expert Witnesses
• Over 15,000 Square Feet of Crane Serviced, Climate Controlled, Indoor Space
• Remote Monitoring | Virtual Inspections
• Short-Term / Long-Term Storage Facility with Outdoor Storage Area
• On-site Evidence Documentation, Collection, and Preservation
• Full Polymer Testing Laboratory (Cincinnati, OH Facility)
• Ultrasonic Inspection, Including Phased Array
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