Stress Engineering Services completes 25,500 square feet testing facility

Preparing future corrosion specialists is directly tied to understanding and predicting current assets in the infrastructure. With this in mind Stress Engineering Services recently completed construction on a 25,500 square feet testing facility to better understand how materials react and perform in sour environments.

Industry standards are naturally progressing towards more requirements for fatigue and fracture testing. This new facility, located in Waller, Texas, has a sour gas laboratory that provides a safe environment fit for these types of tests.

“Developing a materials test lab is a natural progression of our business,” said Steven Kinyon, a staff consultant at Stress Engineering.  “Developing corrosion engineers and mechanical corrosion testing facilities is going to be more critical over the next few years as there is a whole group of industry experts looking towards retirement and a void behind them that has yet to be filled.”

Engineers at Stress Engineering are excited about the opening of the testing facility and say that it will be instrumental to the future of corrosion sciences as they can perform testing in hydrogen sulfide and other toxic environments as well as testing to support recent subsalt discoveries. 

“It’s an engineering and technical challenge to figure out how to safely and efficiently conduct these tests,” said Joe Fowler, president at Stress Engineering. “The testing facility will enable current and future corrosion professionals to do their job even better.”