Catastrophic Failure of A Buried Water Pipeline: One of the primary water transmission pipelines for a large Metro Atlanta water system failed catastrophically after more than twenty years in service. The failure was discovered when surface water was seen in...

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...

Water Heater Failure Investigation: A commercial water heater failed in service in a high-rise office building. The resulting water leak led to widespread electrical and mechanical failures to the building’s elevator system. Allegations of faulty installation of the water heater...

Truck Rollover and Multi-Vehicle Collision: A coal hauling tractor-trailer rolled over while negotiating a relatively benign turn, initiating a severe multi-vehicle incident with loss of life. In the ensuing litigation, accident reconstructionists for other parties argued that...

Train Derailment Investigation: MME was engaged to perform failure analysis pertaining to a train derailment that was initiated by a fatigue fracture of a single car axle after preliminary investigation by several parties failed to reveal a singular root cause. MME undertook...

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...

GPR Slab Thickness Evaluation: Contractors at a new vehicle production facility needed quality control assurance on a section of a slab on grade. Not only would it would be very costly to make random cores and repairs on the ceramic-coated slab, this method would require...