Structural Services

IDS installs structural reinforcements designed to restore or enhance the strength and integrity of shipboard structures. Our team fabricates and installs reinforcement members including stiffeners, brackets, collars, doubler plates, clips, gussets, and structural inserts while ensuring proper alignment and compliance with engineering drawings. 

Typical work includes: 

• Steel layout and fabrication  

• Plasma cutting and oxy-fuel cutting  

• Carbon arc gouging for weld removal  

• Precision fit-up  

• Welding  

• Grinding and weld finishing  

• Dimensional verification  

IDS fabricates, modifies, and installs equipment foundations supporting machinery, pumps, motors, switchboards, ventilation equipment, and mission-critical systems. 

Services include: 

• Removal of existing foundations  

• Foundation fabrication  

• Structural modifications  

• Foundation alignment  

• Equipment mounting preparation  

• Welding and reinforcement  

• Final dimensional verification  

Tools commonly utilized: 

• Plasma cutters  

• Magnetic drills  

• Hydraulic jacks  

• Precision layout equipment  

• Welding equipment  

• Grinders  

IDS performs fabrication, installation, replacement, and modification of structural beams, girders, channels, angles, T-bars, and supporting members. 

Our craftsmen perform: 

• Existing beam removal  

• Structural steel fabrication  

• Beam fit-up  

• Deck and bulkhead tie-ins  

• Structural reinforcement  

• Welding  

• Final inspection  

IDS installs overhead support systems for piping, ventilation, electrical cableways, machinery, equipment, and structural assemblies. 

Our capabilities include: 

• Hanger fabrication  

• Bracket installation  

• Structural support installation  

• Reinforcement members  

• Welding  

• Alignment verification  

IDS performs structural modifications to decks and bulkheads required during modernization, equipment replacement, and ship alterations. 

Services include: 

• Controlled structural demolition  

• Plate removal  

• New insert fabrication  

• Deck inserts  

• Bulkhead modifications  

• Flush grinding  

• Structural restoration  

Cutting methods include: 

• Plasma cutting  

• Oxy-fuel cutting  

• Carbon arc gouging  

• Portable saws  

• Grinders  

IDS fabricates and installs structural inserts for piping, ventilation, electrical systems, equipment foundations, and access modifications. 

Work includes: 

• Precision layout  

• Hull and deck penetrations  

• Collar installation  

• Reinforcement fabrication  

• Weld preparation  

• Final structural restoration  

IDS installs false bulkheads used for equipment enclosures, machinery spaces, habitability improvements, and compartment modernization. 

Services include: 

• Layout  

• Panel fabrication  

• Structural framing  

• Fit-up  

• Welding  

• Fastener installation  

• Final adjustment  

DS provides complete fabrication and installation of cribbing systems and Nomex® honeycomb composite panels for shipboard habitability and equipment spaces. 

Capabilities include: 

• Cribbing fabrication  

• Cribbing installation  

• Nomex panel replacement  

• Panel fit-up  

• Hardware installation  

• Structural backing  

• Finish installation  

IDS performs installation, replacement, repair, and modification of shipboard scuttles, watertight doors, hatches, and associated hardware. 

Services include: 

• Door removal  

• Frame installation  

• Alignment  

• Welding  

• Gasket replacement  

• Dogging mechanism adjustment

• Operational testing  

• Inspection and testing support (Chalk Test)

• Final fit-up  

IDS performs complete fabrication, installation, modification, repair, and restoration of Tight Access Openings (TAOs) used throughout naval vessels. 

Capabilities include: 

• TAO removal  

• New TAO installation  

• Structural framing  

• Coaming fabrication  

• Cover installation  

• Dogging hardware installation  

• Gasket replacement  

• Welding  

• Structural reinforcement  

• Inspection and testing support