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Loading…Loading…Boasting two decades of experience shaping the future of dimensional metrology, Creaform assists their customers achieve their measurement ambitions through cutting-edge 3D solutions. With its extensive hardware and software portfolio, Creaform enables its users to experience innovation firsthand through 3D scanning, reverse engineering, quality control, non-destructive testing, product development, and MRO. Thousands of professionals in various industries, like automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, heavy industries, oil and gas, power generation, consumer products, research and education, have discovered that with Creaform, Innovation Takes Form.
Headquartered in Lévis,
Québec, Creaform is present in more than 85 countries, through its 26 locations
all around the world and a network of over a hundred distributors. A presence
that enables the company to build relations and provide unmatched customer
service. Creaform is a business unit of AMETEK, Inc., a leading global provider
of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche
markets with annual sales of over $7.0 billion
Canada
ASME B31G compliant
Technological innovations featured in Creaform’s comprehensive and powerful NDT solutions enable pipeline engineers to combine the power of the HandySCAN 3D portable scanner with ultrasonic testing (UT) technologies. By including both the inner and the outer wall deterioration in the calculation of a pipe’s bust pressure, Pipecheck sets a new standard of reliability and efficiency. NDT inspectors using magnetic detectors, UT devices or in-line inspection tools can also benefit from the software’s rigorous analysis power even if they do not use 3D laser scanners, thanks to Pipecheck’s ability to import external data sets. This comprehensive solution provides the best alternative to traditional pit gauges—whether you need to perform true wall thickness assessments, ILI correlations or corrosion assessments on mechanical damage surfaces.
Key Functionalities
ASME B31.8 compliant
To help non-destructive testing service companies and operators make the safest decisions, Creaform has integrated a mechanical damage assessment software module into Pipecheck. Combined with the HandySCAN 3D portable scanners, Pipecheck is the only NDT software on the market to offer a one-click buttonsolution for strain-based assessments. Dents with stress risers can also be analyzed to separate the impact on pipeline integrity caused the dent from the ones caused by material loss. Some of the advanced functionalities featured in Pipecheck’s mechanical damage software module include corrosion in mechanical damage and ILI correlations.
Key Functionalities
Depth-based assessment type
Strain-based assessment type
Benefit from Creaform’s expertise in structural analysis for your pipeline integrity management needs. Industry sectors, such as aerospace, oil and gas and power generation can benefit from structural analyses to reduce cost and ensure proper functioning of specialized equipment—when validation through physical testing is impossible or too costly to be carried out. Numerical simulations are used for Level 3 assessments to provide detailed evaluations that take into account corrosion, dents, buckles and localized surface deformations on pipes with complex geometry. Combined with 3D data acquisition, finite element analysis (FEA) or computational fluid dynamics (CFD) enable accurate and reliable estimation of the bust pressure, fatigue life and safe pipeline operation. NDT service companies and pipeline operators can count on Creaform’s expertise in non-destructive engineering to help them support maintenance decisions, understand and diagnose physical problems. Fitness for service (FFS) evaluation based on standards, such as API 579, can benefit the use of 3D data acquisition and numerical simulation to prevent pipeline failures, disruption of service or environmental contamination.
Creaform Engineering Services offer a wide range of numerical simulations. Our experienced engineers and material specialists can help you find the most efficient solution—from linear and non-linear stress analyses to fluid dynamics—using the most advanced software on the market, such as NASTRAN, NX, FEMAP, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and StarCCM+.
Type of Analysis
Finite Element
Analysis (FEA)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
The impact ofhail damage on the aerodynamics of an airplane is a complex factor to assess; however, it is vital—literally! to be able to perform the assessment very accurately. The shape and the size of the defects vary with the intensity of every hailstorm. Therefore, the most common way of analyzing the level of damage is through the geometric measurement (length, width and depth) of each dent found on a given service plane. There is also a need on the production line for geometry control. With their passengers’ safety as their main concern, air carriers need to find solutions that are accurate, efficient and auditable.
With the integrity assessment power offered by 3D scanning, aerospace engineering teams can acquire large amounts of high accuracy data to conduct in-depth assessment of hail damage. 3D scanning offers key benefits, such as high accuracy, repeatability, traceability, portability and ease of use. What's more, it enables users to detect and measure defects according to configurable criteria as well as export the data in Excel, PDF and other common formats. Creaform’s NDT solutions can contribute to reducing aircraft damage assessment times by 80% and decrease the risk of human errors.
Operating and maintaining safe and reliable pipeline circuits is fundamental in the pipeline industry. Non-destructive testing (NDT) service companies and pipeline operators undertake substantial efforts to provide the safe transportation of crude oil, natural gas, refined petroleum products and liquefied gas within their networks. Pipeline integrity management, inspection, corrosion prevention, monitoring, leak detection, and overall damage prevention are critical to preventing incidents from occurring.
Creaform offers innovative and highly effective alternatives to traditional NDT methods that are widely used in the oil and gas industry. Its solution for corrosion assessment provides reliability beyond current regulatory requirements, which follow ASME code B31G. Applications of pipeline corrosion assessment include:
In addition to safety issues, corrosion and other damage prevention is critical for the long-term preservation of existing pipeline infrastructures.