Brasilamarras is supported by Vicinay Marine Innovación (VMi), an organization created in March 2010 as the company that undertakes innovative work in the field of materials, design and information technology for the production process
Support the Vicinay group and its clients in investigating topics of interest about offshore mooring lines.
Improve existing products, processes and services, as well as develop new ones.
Work on solving the problems that affect our clients to minimize them.
Investigate new technologies and markets that prove to be at the limit of knowledge.
Among the services that VMi can offer to clients are mainly the following:
Fatigue tests
on live hawsers (1:1 scale)
Material tests
CTODs, tribology tests, fatigue crack growth testing, H2 embrittlement tests, corrosion tests, gigacyclic fatigue tests…
Lifetime
calculation
of tethers in use
3D photogrometry
link scanning
Anchoring
analysis
validation (offshore)
Structural
Integrity Analysis
(Finite Element Analysis FEA, Engineering Critical Assesment ECA, Environmental Assisted Cracking EAC…)
Knowledge and Innovation in the Service of Mooring Solutions
In BrasilAmarras we have an Innovation team through the Group Company Vicinay Marine Innovation.