• Overview
• General Consulting
• Product to Market
  • Overview
  • Application Analysis
  • Product Development
  • Product Validation
  • Codes and Standards
  • Certification
  • Data Development
  • Field Introduction Support
• Performance Validation
  • Overview
  • Application Analysis
  • Material Quick Screening
  • Long-Term Engineering
  • Prototype Screening
  • Final Product Validation
  • Field Introduction
• Certification Management
  • Overview
  • Certification Optimization
  • Codes & Standards
  • Product Certification
  • Certification Testing
• Failure Analysis
• Pipeline Services
  • Overview
  • Specification & Validation
  • Failure Analysis
  • Residual Assessment
  • Initial System Review
  • Residual Lifetime Modeling
  • Engineering Assessment
  • Integrity Management

Material Specification and Validation

Material Selection

Providing the right materials are selected for the application, plastic piping materials can convey many performance advantages and cost savings. Making the right selection, however, is often not a clear or straight forward task.

Jana's plastic piping system expertise can assist you through this process, ensuring that both the right materials are selected and that they are properly validated for your application. Beginning with a full assessment of your intended application and finishing with an Engineering Report on how to ensure the selected materials will perform in your application, Jana follows a structured Pipe Selection Process that ensures success.

Material Validation

A key component of taking materials to market is validating that they will perform in the intended application as designed. This involves understanding the application, how the product could fail in that application and validating that the product design is such that failure will not occur over the design life.

It is not always straight forward, however, to determine in advance how a particular product could potentially fail in a given application. It is often even less straight forward to design an accelerated validation program that will ensure that such failures will not occur.

Jana has developed specific expertise in both of these areas. With over 200 million hours of testing materials to failure and 50 years of failure analysis experience, Jana has gained extensive expertise on the nature of potential piping system failures. Jana also has over 40 years experience in projecting long-term performance of piping system components through accelerated testing programs. This experience is combined in Jana's Product Validation Process.

The overall Jana Product Validation Process has three key components:

1. Identify All Possible Failure Modes (FMEA - Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)
   1. Material in Application
      1. Inherent short and long term properties of material that are relevant to the application
   2. Installation Effects
      1. How will it be installed, fittings, potential installation damage...
   3. Operational Effects
      1. How does it fit into the system, how does it impact system and how does system impact it
2. Conduct Accelerated Testing and Model
   1. Replicate and Accelerate
      1. All about consistent mechanisms
   2. Model
      1. Select appropriate model for forecasting
   3. Plug in End-Use Conditions and Forecast
      1. Understand end-use conditions, Jana has developed data-bases of end-use conditions for many standard applications - natural gas, potable water, industrial, etc.
3. Verify Models
   1. Mechanisms
      1. Jana has characterization tools and expertise to ensure consistency in mechanisms between field and accelerated testing
   2. Fit to Model
      1. Experience, tools, statistical tools, c.f. past Jana research
   3. Predictions vs. Field
      1. Pilot trials, comparison vs control with field history, etc.