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Failure Investigation of Boiler Tubes was published by ASM International in 2018, and the chapter Failure of Boilers and Related Equipment sits in ASM Handbook Volume 11A. Both were written from the same bench that signs the reports.
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Overview
TCR's senior bench has published two titles with ASM International, three peer-style technical papers and five white papers between 2004 and 2026. Every one was written from the same laboratory that signs the reports, by people who are still on the bench.
That matters for a specific reason. A buyer in Houston, London, Singapore or Dubai is not asking whether TCR can test a sample. They are asking whether the report will hold under peer review, in arbitration, or across a regulator's desk. A method described in an ASM Handbook chapter by the engineer who will sign your report answers that question before it is asked.
The list below is the formal record: what was published, by whom, where, and when. The blog corpus on this site is separate. It carries the same bench's technical writing to a wider audience, and it is deliberately not counted here.
Books
Three books, each downloadable here in full. The two ASM International titles are the technical record; the third is the company's own fiftieth-year volume.
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Failure Investigation of Boiler Tubes: A Comprehensive Approach
Written by Paresh U. Haribhakti, Managing Director of TCR Advanced Engineering, with Dr. P.B. Joshi, formerly Head of Metallurgical Engineering at MS University Vadodara, and R. Kumar. It is the reference behind TCR's boiler audit and remaining life assessment practice, and it is cited in the boiler literature on tube-failure mechanisms, root-cause methodology and life extension. ASM International distributes it to the integrity bench in more than 140 countries.
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ASM Handbook Volume 11A: Failure of Boilers and Related Equipment
A chapter, not a mention. The ASM Handbook is the reference practitioners reach for first, and a chapter in Volume 11A puts TCR's failure analysis bench inside it rather than beside it. Same two lead authors as the 2018 book, same distribution, and the same casework behind both.
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TCR Engineering Services: the 50th Anniversary Commemorative Book
Fifty years in one volume, from the first laboratory in 1973 to a seven-country group. It records the founding by Neelam Bafna and the late V.K. Bafna and the build-out across mechanical testing, advanced NDT, civil testing, asset integrity, boiler audit and failure analysis. Readable page by page on the company story, and in print on Amazon.
Peer-Style Technical Papers
NACE Paper No. 09012 (2009 to 2010)
Haribhakti, P.U. (2009-2010), NACE Paper No. 09012, NACE International Annual Conference and Exposition. Authored by Paresh U. Haribhakti at TCR Arabia. Establishes the in-situ metallography authorship priority and frames the TCR Arabia entry into the Aramco vendor universe.
ARTiS Reformer Tubes Paper (2013 to 2014)
Upadhyaya, K., Haribhakti, P., Patel, G., Bafna, V.K. (2013-2014), ARTiS Reformer Tubes Paper. Co-authored by Ketankumar Upadhyaya, Paresh Haribhakti, Gopul Patel, and V.K. Bafna at TCR Advanced. Establishes the published authority anchor for the ARTiS practice (50,000+ reformer tubes scanned cumulatively as of May 2026).
High-Temperature Remaining Life Assessment Paper (2014)
Haribhakti, P., Upadhyaya, K., Patel, G., Baad, S., Bafna, V.K. (2014), High-Temperature RLA Paper. Co-authored by Paresh Haribhakti, Ketankumar Upadhyaya, Gopul Patel, S. Baad, and V.K. Bafna at TCR Advanced. Establishes the published authority anchor for the elevated-temperature RLA practice (the 750+ all-asset-class RLA work; the 400+ Boiler RLA programme).
The 2026 AiOM White Paper
TCR Advanced, 2026, AiOM White Paper. The public-facing complement to the three internal AiOM source decks. Frames the six-pillar architecture (Asset Master, Asset Strategy, Asset Maintenance, Asset Integrity and Reliability, Asset Optimisation, Asset Analytics) and the AiOM-CCP cross-country-pipelines application against the API 580/581/584/579-1 standards stack.
Foundational TCR White Papers
Need for Failure Analysis in India and the Middle East (2004 to 2005)
The 2004-2005 institutional white paper that frames the failure-analysis practice for the Indian and Middle East buyer pool.
Failure and Root Cause Analysis: Investigating Material and Component Failure (July 2004)
The methodology white paper that codifies the TCR root-cause-analysis workflow (visual, NDT, replication per ASTM E1351, hardness, mechanical and chemical, fractography via SEM and EDS, microstructural analysis, FEA where loading is in question, damage-mechanism attribution, written report fit for litigation, insurance, or operator action).
Outsourcing Laboratory Practices (V.K. Bafna, June 2006)
Bafna, V.K. (2006), Outsourcing Laboratory Practices. Authored by V.K. Bafna (Founder, TCR Engineering, 1940 to 2013). Frames the ILAC MRA reciprocity and the outsourced-testing model for international buyers.
An Introduction to Ferrography (Paresh Haribhakti, March 2010)
Haribhakti, P. (2010), An Introduction to Ferrography. Authored by Paresh Haribhakti at TCR Advanced. Frames the lube-oil-condition-monitoring practice for predictive maintenance of rotating equipment.
The fiftieth-anniversary volume is a company record rather than a technical paper, and it is listed with the books above.
Conference and Industry Forum Presence
Beyond the ten formal publications, the TCR senior bench maintains an active conference-and-forum presence across 17 years of technical presentations. Forums include:
- ASNT (American Society for Nondestructive Testing) annual conferences and the ASNT Corporate Partner network (TCR Arabia is an ASNT Corporate Partner).
- NACE / AMPP (Association for Materials Protection and Performance) annual conferences and chapter events; the NACE Excellent Laboratory in the Private Sector award.
- Saudi Aramco ITEME (International Technical Exchange Meeting and Exhibition) and the broader Aramco vendor-and-licensor forum stack.
- World NDT Conference (WCNDT).
- SABIC STC (Scientific and Technical Conference).
- Fertiliser Show USA (2026).
- AIChE Ammonia Plant Safety Committee (Ahmed Esmael Rahimi of QAFCO sits on the committee; the committee is the international reference frame for ammonia-plant integrity).
- NDE conferences in India (NDE 2025 Mumbai launched the Chugai Technos Scale Checker product).
- Boiler India (Avinash Tambewagh delivered the Boiler India 2022 keynote).
Authored Blog Articles by Senior Bench
Across tcreng.com (320 unique posts) and tcradvanced.com (96 unique posts), named TCR senior personnel author approximately 400+ blog posts. The blog corpus extends technical reach and search-visibility surface but does not count toward the formal Published Authority claim. Blog articles do not extend the 140+ countries distribution claim.