Thanks to a continuous research effort for more than 30 years and to numerous well-instrumented test facilities, EDF R&D has accumulated solid technical skills in topics related to long-term operation such as ageing of materials (steel, concrete, polymers, etc.), circuit chemistry, thermal-hydraulics and mechanics.
Risk management
- Increasing the reliability of your complex industrial systems
- Human and organisational factors in your high-risk activities
- Managing the risks to your asset portfolio
- Optimising your maintenance investments
- Planning your operations more efficiently through innovative methods
- Choosing the right algorithm for your operational decisions
- Managing the risk of your industrial infrastructures with CYPH-R
- Evaluating the seismic risk and facility resistance
- Promoting the territorial rooting of your industrial project and the stakeholder dialogue
Mechanics, materials, thermohydraulics
- Testing your equipment subjected to vibrations
- In-depth control of your mechanical simulations
- Welding: design of instrumented tests - weldability
- Developing your repairs and coatings using additive manufacturing "Cold Spray"
- Ultrasound testing of your complex equipment
- Assessing your equipment in two-phase flows
- Testing your rotating machines in disrupted environments
- Calibration of flowmeters under cofrac accreditation
- Gleeble thermo-mechanical simulator tests
Electric equipment
- Improving the Reliability of the Rotors of your Generators
- Testing your equipment subjected to vibrations
- Improving the reliability of the rotors of your generators
- Controlling the availability of your rotating machines
- Validating the design and reception of transformers
- Protecting your equipment against electrical transients
- Calibration of flowmeters under cofrac accreditation
- Power tests and high voltage tests
- Study and expertise of cable connections
