These are primarily the secondary structures, used to attach various maintenance or protection equipment and the design will always vary on the intended function of the attached Secondary structure and the means of installation as well as the anticipated mode of failure. It is a good practice to allow that certain parts of the secondary structures are designed to fail first, so that in the event of an overload, structures that are more difficult to replace hopefully speed of the requirement for Renewal and a replacement.

Your assets may have been in use for years. These could have been subjected to unknown loadings of unexpected magnitude and duration. It may be discovered that some assets were working under repetitive loadings thus raising the concerns of fatigue. Some assets may be subject to excessive corrosion, or dilapidation of underlying concrete base structures. For all the situations we can provide a back analysis of the asset as it currently presents, and provide assessment of the safe loadings, including loadings under fatigue conditions. This would help budget for future maintenance works accordingly.

When an asset suffers damage, the damage can be immediately visible for example a bent fender panel or snapped pivot pins etc, but sometimes whatever caused the immediately visible damage could have also caused damage in the underlying structures which are more often than not difficult to identify. By analysing the magnitude and vectors of forces that lead to the visible damage we can establish the full nature of array of forces that has caused the damage, as well as their impact on the underlying structures. This would help establish whether the damage was caused by an overload, substandard initial specification, fatigue, and so on.

The online design tools are offered here on the portal, and their purpose is to give our visitors an opportunity to assess various aspects of their current or proposed structures on a preliminary and informative basis, so that they could for example see whether the anticipated geometry will comply with the specifications and loading requirements, and whether the various connecting structures should perform together in a satisfactory fashion.

Expert Witness Service is being provided in strict compliance with CPR rules, and it can either follow from our own appraisals of the damaged or defective structures, or could be an add-on and follow up on other parties analysis and investigations, including detailed amplification of certain technical points. Over the years we have supported numerous legal actions, and the relevant litigation specialists in court.

Not all port structures are common and simple. Sometimes the structures can find themselves under extreme pressures from confined vessels, sometimes sacrificial energy sapping structures need to be provided so that they collapse and protect more valuable static or mobile structures and installations. Sometimes temporary transport and communication arrangements need to be put in place on a short notice as an afterthought atop of existing structures. We have designed numerous such instances and with our superb theoretical mechanics skills and innate understanding of flows of forces, combined with most powerful analytical skills and specialist software including FEA tools, we can surely help with such enquiries.