Our Fabric Maintenance Engineers offered an innovative ‘Life of Asset’ solution in partnership with a composite contractor, which involved specific onshore training of personnel. Working closely with the client's structural integrity leads, this was a engineered deck strengthen solution via bespoke plates designed and manufactured onshore post laser survey performed down bay 1 of the deck.
This solution created a 14mm composite ‘steel sandwich’ via injecting (at pre drilled holes) a high strength, high viscosity ceramic composite underneath the laid in plates achieving a 90% contact with the deck. This injection technique utilised standard coating equipment our FM Technicians are competent in. Further, it eliminated voids and pockets prone to corrosion which was experienced by the previous temporary and not fit for purpose fixes.
The repair took a team of 3 persons, 3 weeks within an enclosed habitats tackling 88 SQM of deck. The preparation was via dry abrasive blasting, a hold primer, sealing of any holes in the deck, then application of a supplied filler to remove any undulations prior to the dry laying of the plates. Post full install process, we applied a heavy duty anti-slip coating on top via hopper gun to the whole bay.
