Structural Test and Evaluation

Since 1958, SwRI has used special instrumentation to test offshore structures. Large-scale, full-scale, and in situ testing capabilities include high-load, high-elongation, static, and dynamic tests, using a variety of instrumentation. Facilities include both open and closed loop load and displacement control systems. SwRI testing capabilities include:

• Stress analysis
  
  

• Fatigue and fracture
  
  

• Residual stress
  
  

• High-pressure, high-load capacity
  
  

• Corrosion in sour gas environments
  
  

• Large, precision models on a special test frame
  

Joe Crouch, Lee E. Ries or Al Steiner

Marine and Offshore Systems Section Structural Engineering Department
Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Divisions SwRI Home