Engineered Casting Repair Services METALOCK "The Technology Leader In the Crack Repair Industry" ...Any Crack ...Anywhere ...Any Time The Metalock Corporation (est. 1937) and ECRS... are industrial service companies specializing in the repair and re-design of failed equipment components in all industries. ECRS engineers utilize Metalock Corporation's industry... recognized Metalock and metalace repair components in conjunction with the latest in finite element analysis to design permanent repairs to equipment that in many cases was thought...

to repair this piece after it had cracked due to fatigue under normal operating conditions. Because of the method of failure, additional strength would need to be added to prevent... another failure when it was returned to service. Survey of damages Cracking was present in two locations on the platen. Both cracks initiated in the same set of casting holes... at the top of the piece. Others previously attempted a weld repair on these cracks sometime before ECRS became involved. This proved to be unsuccessful. The total length of crack...

ECRS was contacted and asked to take a look at it. After looking at the mill and doing preliminary calculations, it was decided that the mill could be effectively repaired. survey... from the long erosion process. This shows the extent of the erosion problem in this mill. FEA analysis Finite element modeling was used in the design of this repair. It..., but has the reinforcing plates installed. The stress here is under 17,000psi. This is less than 1/2 of the stress in the model without reinforcement. This proves our repair...