Atul Ganpatye, PE

Atul Ganpatye, PE, has over 12 years of engineering consulting experience specializing in integrity assessment of onshore and offshore equipment. His focus areas have included offshore and onshore and casing integrity, weak point assessments, global finite element analysis, and engineering support for failure analysis. He has been involved with several hindcasting efforts directed toward simulating failure modes in well systems. At ADV, Atul is a senior associate who works on pipe performance and failure modes, inspection techniques, and repair technologies through full-scale testing and analysis. He received his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mumbai University and his M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University and is a licensed Professional Engineering in the state of Texas. Outside of work, Atul enjoys spending time with his family, painting with watercolors, and performing martial arts.

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Handling Hard Spots: ADV's Hard Spots JIP Seeks Clarity in Hard Spots Threat Management

The behavior of high hardness threats (hard spots) and the testing, inspection, and analysis process appropriate for identifying, treating, and monitoring hardness is a developing area of study. Operators are looking for answers to questions about...

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Working Out the Wrinkles: Combining FEA Analysis and Low-Cycle Fatigue Testing to Assess Wrinkle Bends

For pipelines installed before the 1950s-60s, the practice of intentionally bending a pipe to achieve a change in the routing direction would...

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Improving Accuracy in Fatigue Life Assessments and Predictions

One of the biggest challenges for integrity management in the oil and gas industry is the ability to accurately predict fatigue life of critical...

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Something to Add: Validating Additive Manufacturing for Critical Applications in Oil & Gas

Additive manufacturing (AM) is set to become a credible (and disruptive!) alternative to traditional manufacturing in cases involving on-demand,...

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