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Failure Analysis

MCS has been involved in failure analysis since its inceptin in 1978.  Some examples of previous projects are:

  • Investigation, for Saskatchewan Occupational Health and Safety Branch, of a crane overturning at the Shand Power Station Site.

  • Many failure investigations for insurance companies.

  • Examinations and assessments of failures and product liability for law firms.

  • Fire investigations for insurance companies and law enforcement agencies.

  • Investigation of structural steel and of storage tank safety at Timmins, Ontario.

  • Pipeline failure investigations.

  • Investigation of wind turbine failures at Hawaiian Electric Renewable Systems, Inc. (Image Below).

  • Failure investigations for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh.

  • Investigation of crack growth in high temperature steam plant for COPESUL, Companhia Petroquimica do Sul, Brazil.

  • Investigation of failure of Ashland Oil tank, Pittsburgh.

  • Aircraft engine damage investigation for US owners.

  • Refinery reactor vessel integrity evaluation for Ecopetrol, Colombia.

  • Aircraft landing gear failure.

  • Helicopter gas turbine blade failure.

  • Moose Jaw tank rupture and fire (Image Below).

  • Diesel electric locomotive axle failures.

  • Offshore storage tank cracking (hydrogen-induced cracking).

  • Power station generator rotor damage.

  • Hydraulic turbine cooling fan blade failures (Colombia).

  • Damage in stationary gas turbine blades (Brazil).

  • Collapse of main crane on offshore semi-submersible platform (Grand Banks, Newfoundland).

  • Power station generator blade fatigue failures.

  • Corrosion problems in piping and tanks for many different industries.

  • Major refinery fire in the U.S.A.

  • Liquid metal embrittlement failures.


Hawaiian Electric Renewable Systems, Inc. - Wind turbine blade failures
Hawaiian Electric Renewable Systems, Inc. - Wind turbine blade failures
Moose Jaw Fire
 

Last modified: 12 December, 2011

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