Welding laboratory
In the welding laboratory, we perform hyperbaric welding, weldability testing and weld thermal simulations.
Research group Materials Integrity and Welding
Vital components and structures are designed and fabricated for long lifetimes. By understanding mechanisms for deterioration of metals, we help our customers make material selections and develop welding procedures, ensuring that catastrophic events do not occur in infrastructures such as bridges, wind turbines, pipelines and cables for energy transport.
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Research areas
- Welding technology and additive manufacturing
- Hyperbaric welding enabling subsea pipelines transporting oil, natural and hydrogen gas.
- Robotized MIG, Laser and hybrid-laser welding technologies.
- Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing for components of medium complexity.
- Microstructure investigations of weld and base materials to connect the weld process to weld properties.
- Fatigue and fracture
- Testing and failure analyses of fracture mechanics, fatigue, creep, fretting.
- Lifetime assessments and Engineering Critical Assessments.
- Extensive efforts on hydrogen embrittlement of steels.
- Extensive experience on several metals and alloy systems, in particular steel, aluminium, copper, and lead.
Research approach
- We collaborate with customers, university partners and with many SINTEF research groups.
- We apply a multi scale and multi-physics approach.
- We have state-of-art welding facilities.
- We have mechanical test machines with environmental control.
- We use digital image correlation and acoustic emission detection monitoring techniques.
- We have a workshop and laboratories for thermomechanical treatments in a Gleeble simulator, metallographic and fractographic characterization.
- We access nanomechanical test tools through university (NTNU) collaboration.
- We use commercial software (Abaqus) for FEM analyses and develop proprietary solvers to obtain added value.
- We have proprietary softwares for fatigue and fracture mechanics calculations in pipelines and piping structures.
Employees in the research group Materials and Welding
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Laboratories
Metallographic characterization laboratory
In the characterization laboratory we have strong expertise in metallographic characterization of steel, aluminum and other metals and alloys. The laboratory is located very close to the mechanical/fracture mechanical laboratory, the corrosion...
Materials testing
We can test and characterise a wide range of different materials in our laboratories. Materials and components are bent, tensioned and compressed, and go through fracture- and fatigue tests.
Projects
HyLINE - Safe Pipelines for Hydrogen Transport
Hydrogen, the most abundant chemical substance in the universe, may, as an energy carrier hold the key to the inevitable and needed transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Together with Norway's important role as a major energy provider in...
HyF-Lex – Field life extension through controlling the combined material degradation of fatigue and hydrogen
The HyF-Lex project seeks to increase the fundamental understanding of the mechanisms inherent to hydrogen assisted fatigue crack growth in steels, as well as contributing to a model framework for assessment of hydrogen-assisted fatigue.
Arctic materials
The main goal of the project is to establish criteria and solutions for safe and cost-effective application of materials for hydrocarbon exploration and production in arctic regions.
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