TechKnowServ has performed hundreds of infrastructure assessment projects over the last decade for various government agencies and private sector clients including:

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- U.S. Navy

- U.S. Air Force

- United States Army Corps of Engineers

- Department of Energy

- Department of Transportation

- Transportation Research Board

- U.S. Bureau Land Reclamation

- National Science Foundation, and

- Numerous state Department of Transportations (DOTs)

 

Some of the projects include Coulee Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, Ice Harbor Dam, Francis E Walter Dam, Fort Randall Dam, Blue Marsh Dam, Lindsey C. Boggs Dam, Chief Joe Dam, Albeni Falls Dam, Lower Granite, Little Goose, and J Bennett Johnson Waterway. During these jobs, TKS inspected various structures such as stop logs, lock miter gates, lock tainter valves, tainter gates, and service bridges.

 

Listed below is a small sampling of TKS’ infrastructure assessment projects.

 

Quality Assurance Services on Omaha District

Tainter Gate Repairs Oahe Dam, South Dakota

 

Description of Services

• TKS certified welding inspectors (CWIs) assessed the effectiveness of the design-build contractor’s quality control program

• Verified compliance with the American Welding Society D1.5 Bridge Welding Code.

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Major Northeast Refinery

Advance Nondestructive Testing Services – Guided Wave Inspection

 

Description of Services

• Support of the American Petroleum Institute (API) 571 Piping Inspection Code

• Above ground pipeline inspection

• Insulated pipeline inspection

• Below ground pipeline inspection

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Recertification of U.S. Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) Helium, Air,

 Mixed Air DOT 107A pneumatic pressure vessels in Panama City, FL.

 

Description of Services

• TKS provided:

• Certified personnel and acoustic emission testing equipment

• Expertise required to perform Visual Testing (VT) and Acoustic Emission Examination (AE) of seventy-two (72) DOT 107A pneumatic pressure vessels located at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU).

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Advanced Nondestructive Testing Services – Wire Rope Inspections

Hollywood, CA

 

Description of Services

• Monthly visual inspection of wire rope for wire breaks and cross-sectional area loss

• Monthly magnetic flux leakage (MFL) inspection of wire rope for external and internal wire breaks and loss of metallic area (LMA)

 

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Advanced Nondestructive Testing of Fatigue Critical Structures

Milton, PA

 

Description of Services

• Nondestructive testing fracture critical bridge pins.

• Phased array was used to inspect bridge pins for shear plane failure, wear, corrosion, and fatigue cracks.

 

 

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Large Shipyard Norfolk Virginal

Ultrasonic Survey of Ship Hull and Caisson

Norfolk, VA

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Description of Services

• Thickness mapping of marine structures per American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).

• The project included manual ultrasonic thickness gaging and robotic crawler inspection.

 

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Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX)

Advanced Nondestructive Testing of Aboveground Storage Tanks

Mexico

 

Description of Services

• Acoustic emission testing in support of API-653 inspections

• Guided wave inspection in support of API-570 inspections

• Pressure vessel inspections