Remaining Life of Degrading Structures
Are your steel structures ageing faster than you think? Corrosion is one of the most underestimated threats to the long-term integrity of mining and industrial infrastructure. Investmech recently conducted a consequence-class dependent reliability index...
Tank remaining life estimation & Control: Liquids
Situations arise where the service life of tanks used at plants and storage facilities is increased due to operational requirements. Then there are situations where the design life of tanks is less than the service life because the intention at the design phase was to...
A guide to (start) meshing like a pro
Introduction Meshing is an aspect of finite element analysis that sometimes gets overlooked by FE analysts, particularly those with the luxury of comparatively small models and/or powerful computing resources available. As a junior engineer, I rarely went beyond the...