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Failure Analysis

New article: A Guide to Failure Analysis for the Oil and Gas Industry

Root-cause failure analyses allow manufacturers, fabricators, and operators to make well-informed choices regarding repair strategies and the mitigation of future failures. While the oil and gas industry has established an impressive safety record over many years of operation, failures do occur. The analysis and subsequent prevention of these failures is a complex multidisciplinary activity requiring […]

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AweSim-EWI Project Chosen for Department of Energy Program

  The AweSim program at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and EWI have been selected to develop one of 10 national industry projects under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program. AweSim and EWI will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) to develop a cloud-based advanced welding simulation […]

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Weld Failure Analysis: A Case Study — a new article from EWI

  Safety in the oil and gas industry  is a primary concern as operators advance into challenging new environments. Failure analysis techniques allow experts to identify the root cause(s) of failures and provide recommendations to prevent a recurrence. With decades of industrial and research experience in welding, materials, and metallurgical engineering, EWI engineers have conducted extensive […]

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My Dad the Toothpick Ninja

Knowledge is funny. Once you know something, it seems so obvious. I once had a door in my house that would barely scrape against the floor. I asked my father to give me a hand with it, expecting that we’d need to shave some material off of the bottom to give the clearance needed. I […]

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EWI’s Laser-based Pipeline Weld Inspection System

One of the great things about being an engineer at EWI is having the opportunity to touch so many different technologies and applications. The first application I have had the opportunity to learn about is pipeline construction from our experienced team. When oil and gas pipelines are constructed, a major concern is the quality of […]

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EWI Wins Grant from America Makes

We are proud to announce that EWI’s project, “Refining Microstructure of AM Materials to Improve Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI),” has been selected by America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in its latest round of awards. EWI with Lockheed Martin Company and Sciaky Inc. will address the need to improve ultrasonic inspection of titanium alloy components for […]

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Exciting Plenary Session at this Year’s TMS Meeting

One my personal favorite activities as a materials engineer is my volunteer support of TMS (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, tms.org).  They are a first class organization and I always enjoy supporting their efforts on engaging the materials community. In that vein, I’m a co-organizer of this year’s Materials Innovation Plenary, “Innovation in Materials […]

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Meet the EWI Materials Team – George Ritter

This week the “Meet the Team” series introduces George Ritter of the EWI Materials group. George specializes in the areas of adhesives and plastics.  George has spent over 30 years in industrial research environments, with much of that time spent on structural adhesives bonding applications. Please feel free to contact George if you have any […]

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What does an EWI member company look like?

What does an EWI member company look like? It looks like a company standing strong and steeped in tradition bringing good things to light through imagination and hard work. GE   It looks like a company dedicated to changing lives.   ST. JUDE MEDICAL   It looks like a company flying high forever seeking new […]

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