X-ray Residual Stress Measurement Equipment

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

X-RAY RESIDUAL STRESS MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT
Single stage – Any candidate may submit a tender.
Contract type: Supply contract
Contracting authority: TWI Ltd, AEMRI, Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, CB21 6AL. Tel: 01223899000. E-mail: purchasing@twi.co.uk. Web: . Electronic access to information: . Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: (Purchasing Department)., CB21 6AL
Object of the contract
Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot
Cambridge, UK
The Awarding Authority is one of the world’s foremost independent research and technology organisations, with expertise in solving problems in all aspects of manufacturing, fabrication and whole-life integrity management technologies.
Established in Cambridge, UK in 1946 and with facilities across the globe, the company has a first class reputation for service through its teams of internationally respected consultants, scientists, engineers and support staff, whose knowledge and expertise is available to its Industrial Members as and when they require.
This specification has been produced as part of an initiative known as AEMRI (Advanced Engineering Materials Research Institute), which is funded by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) using European Regional Development Funds (ERDF). AEMRI seeks to create a unique facility housing a critical mass of equipment, expertise and resources. AEMRI provides an environment to test and prove the limits of performance of advanced materials. Through the use of advanced modelling and simulation methods, full, large-scale mechanical test structures will be designed and built upon finite element analysis (FEA) calculations. Advanced, automated non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques will be developed with the aim of saving the industry time and production costs as well as minimising the risk of catastrophic structural failures.
AEMRI will deliver the objectives of the project through the following four technical strands:-
Modelling and Simulation of High Performance Materials and Structures.
Advanced Robotic Inspection of Complex Geometry Structures.
Inspection Systems for Very Large Structures for the Green Energy Sector.
Nuclear Fabrication Research Centre.
In order to support structural integrity and fabrication research and consultancy activities, TWI is seeking to procure residual stress measurement equipment. The equipment must use the principals of X-ray diffraction (XRD) to measure residual stresses as this technique will compliment TWI’s existing capabilities.
The XRD equipment must be portable as its intended use includes both laboratory and site work in industrial settings. The equipment must be able to measure stresses in a range of engineering alloys. Further information can be found in the specification in section 3.
Please ensure all correspondence relating to this tender is submitted through the In-Tend correspondence facility.
CPV: 33111000, 38530000, 38582000, 39300000
Administrative Information
WA Ref:80322
Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority : AEMRI-66-PRSD
Time-limit for receipt of completed tenders : 18.5.2018 (12:00:00)
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Other Information
Estimated award date
25-06-2018
Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up
EN
Additional Information
(WA Ref:80322)
Relates to the following project/programme financed by EU Community Funds: This specification has been produced as part of an initiative known as AEMRI (Advanced Engineering Materials Research Institute), which is funded by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) using European Regional Development Funds (ERDF).
TKR-201846-EX-720085