Cracking of Heat Exchanger Tubing: A commercial heat exchanger system suffered a catastrophic failure shortly after returning to service after a dormant period of several years. Engineers from MME identified the heat exchanger failure mechanism as cracking... [more]

Boiler Failure Investigation: A large fire-tube boiler failed catastrophically after less than two years in service. Prior to the failure, sever vibrations due to combustion instabilities were observed by the operators. A multidisciplinary team of MME engineers and technicians... [more]

Boiler Failure Investigation : The manufacturer of a complex marine heat exchanger was sued by a customer that had experienced widespread failures of the components in their system. The complaint claimed defective design, manufacturing, and inspection. MME was retained to... [more]