Industry-Specific Engineering

Different industries demand different assessments

Power generation, aerospace and defense, hydrogen and renewables, and rail and infrastructure: we provide specialized condition assessment, testing and monitoring services tailored to each industry's damage mechanisms and standards.

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Power generation

Gas turbines

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Aerospace & defense

Aero gas turbine engines

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Hydrogen & renewables

Hydrogen embrittlement

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Rail & infrastructure

Railways & ports

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Power Generation — Gas Turbines

Gas turbines for power generation

Component-level life management for gas turbines in the era of hydrogen and ammonia co-firing.

Compressor blades: process compensated resonance testing (PCRT), blade tip timing (BTT) monitoring and nondestructive testing (NDT), including phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) and eddy current array (ECA)

Turbine blades: high-temperature creep evaluation, thermomechanical fatigue (TMF) and remaining life calculation for single-crystal (SX) superalloy blades

Rotors and disks: crack detection, material degradation assessment and life assessment

Fuel supply piping: integrity assessment, including hydrogen embrittlement evaluation and microcrack monitoring with embedded IoT sensors

Integrity assurance for refurbished hot gas path parts: life assessment, NDT and thermal barrier coating (TBC) integrity inspection

Supporting data: mechanical property behavior in the airfoil tip region over service cycles, and tracking of gamma prime (γ′) evolution in service-exposed blades.

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Aerospace & Defense — Aero Gas Turbine Engines

Aerospace & defense

We test and validate to aerospace industry requirements, following MMPDS (Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization) data development guidelines and ENSIP (Engine Structural Integrity Program, MIL-HDBK-1783B).

Advanced superalloy testing: elevated-temperature tensile and fatigue, TMF, fatigue crack growth rate (FCGR), K_Ic, J_Ic and impact testing

Materials database development following MMPDS data development guidelines (IN738LC, IN718, 17-4PH, Ti-6242, single crystal)

Specialized NDT: PAUT, ECA, metal magnetic memory (MMM), PCRT and fluorescent penetrant inspection (FPI)

Probability of detection (POD) curve development: inspection procedures, acceptance criteria and PODs developed in accordance with ENSIP, and fatigue-cracked specimens fabricated based on MIL-HDBK-1823A

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Hydrogen & Renewables — Hydrogen Embrittlement Evaluation

Hydrogen & renewables

Piping safety for the hydrogen economy, from specimen preparation to real-time monitoring, all in one place.

01Hydrogen-charged specimen preparation

Electrochemical hydrogen charging of specimens, including charging at high temperature and pressure in an in-house-built autoclave (up to 172 bar / 2,500 psi and 340 °C)

02Hydrogen effect testing

Slow strain rate testing (SSRT), creep, FCGR and Charpy impact testing

03Weld integrity inspection

PAUT for detecting hydrogen embrittlement cracking

04AE-based embedded IoT monitoring

Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring of microcrack initiation and growth, with alarms by crack stage

Validation data: comparative fractography before and after hydrogen charging at 80 °C and 50 bar, quantifying hydrogen effects in the surface and center regions.

For online diagnostics and prognostics and health management (PHM) of wind turbines, see the Online monitoring & IoT page.

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Rail & Infrastructure — Railways & Ports

Rail & infrastructure

Rail safety enhancement R&D

From wheel and rail wear to buckling of continuous welded rail.

In collaboration with Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL), the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) and Kyungil University, we evaluate wheel and rail wear and establish destressing criteria for continuous welded rail (CWR).

Wheel–rail wear testing and evaluation

Hardness, mechanical property and fracture toughness evaluation of EN 13262 wheel specimens and rail specimens
Wheel–rail wear testing (pin-on-disk, ASTM G99-23; ER7, ERS8, ER9 / 60E1, KR60)
Dynamics and structural analysis of straight and curved track sections to derive wear rates
Microstructural and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis
Issuance of accredited test reports under the Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (KOLAS)

Continuous welded rail safety

Buckling risk analysis for heat waves and climate change
Recalculation of the mean rail temperature (currently 20 °C) to reflect extreme temperatures
More reliable NDT-based measurement of rail longitudinal force
Contributions to revisions of the track maintenance management guidelines and track work guidelines

Expected benefits: Derailment prevention, lower life-cycle cost (LCC) and reduced buckling risk.

Smart port wire rope inspection

Real-time rope inspection toward zero serious accidents involving port cranes.

Magnetic rope testing (MRT) and magnetic flux leakage detection based on technology licensed from the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). Applying inner and outer coils simultaneously improves detection performance (loss of metallic area, LMA < 0.5%). Detectable flaws: external wear, broken wires, basket deformation (birdcaging), diameter reduction, corrosion and kinks. Validation on a test bed at Kangwon Land has been completed, and commercialization is under way, progressing from prototype fabrication to performance validation.

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Targets · Deliverables · Standards

Scope, deliverables and standards

Applicable equipment, deliverables and relevant standards for each industry at a glance.

Industry	Applicable equipment	Deliverables	Applicable standards
Power generation	Gas turbine compressor and turbine blades, rotors, disks, fuel supply piping, TBC	Life assessment and material degradation reports, BTT/IoT monitoring data	ASME- and API-based assessment, API RP 580/581 (for risk-based maintenance, RBM)
Aerospace & defense	Superalloy components of turbofan engines	MMPDS materials database, POD curves, KOLAS-accredited test reports	MMPDS, ENSIP (MIL-HDBK-1783B), MIL-HDBK-1823A
Hydrogen & renewables	Hydrogen supply piping, combustor piping, welds, wind turbines	Hydrogen embrittlement evaluation reports, AE monitoring alarm data	Hydrogen embrittlement test standards are agreed on a project-by-project basis
Rail & infrastructure	Wheels, rails, continuous welded rail, port crane wire ropes	KOLAS-accredited test reports, wear database, MRT inspection results	EN 13262, ASTM G99-23

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