Sontra YIM

About Sontra YIM

Mr. Yim has over twenty-five years of experience as a consulting engineer with broad multi-disciplinary knowledge performing advanced stress analysis, design and failure cause investigations of structures, system and components as well as hands-on field engineering work at power generation facilities. 

Mr. Yim heads SOCOTEC’s Boston testing (mechanical and electrical), materials and radioactive materials laboratories. His focus has been finding and introducing innovative technologies to plant operations to improve performance, maintain safety and asset integrity. These range from installation of wide spectrum vibration control devices on piping systems to developing and deploying software solutions. Mr. Yim developed the Wise-Back system, an enterprise software system that uses voice commands to perform and document inspections, system engineering walkdowns, operator rounds and radiation surveys.

Mr. Yim has extensive experience leading complex long multi-disciplinary projects that utilize the full spectrum of our capabilities. Most recently, Mr. has completed major projects to mitigate adverse operational vibration effects on high energy piping systems and control valves that entailed dynamic analysis, pipe support design and analysis, fabrication and supply of piping and support components to the client utility.

Practice Areas

• Failure Analysis and Cause Investigations
• Testing, Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Analysis 
• Design, Advance Analysis, Engineering Mechanics
• Structural Dynamics
• Fitness for Service, Independent Review
• Software Development