2009 – We enter our 22nd year and the excitement and challenges continue!
Litigation & Insurance Work continues to grow with current input on leaking water pipes, failed prosthetic devices, aerosol cans, a truck fire, damages from an acid vapor release, injury from equipment collapse, and leaking USTs. Recent closed cases: tragic house fire (corroded electrics); drainpipe issues (Watergate); leaking steel drums (chemical wastes); steam pipe failures; and, high-temperature reactors.
Materials Testing & Failure Analysis absorbs much of our time. Materials advisory work: aluminum coils; heater elements; solar energy systems; soda cans; food-cooler units; and, material for a deep mine in Mongolia. Recent failures include: intergranular corrosion (copper piping for heating oil); severe hot corrosion (thermal devices); SCC in stressed stainless steel pipe; boiler (evaporator tube) failures; dezincification (brass fittings); erosion of poorly installed copper tube; formicary corrosion in copper tubing.
NACE CORROSION 2009: Special presentation to NACE Fellows “A Retrospective View for the Future” – published in Materials Performance, April 2009. You can read the article here.
September 20-24, 2009: Nace Corrosion Technology Week 2009, Houston, TX
March 14-18, 2010: Nace Corrosion Conference & Expo, San Antonio, TX
