Consulting Services
Complete and Cutting-Edge
- Product and Project Development
- CQA
- Inspections
- Failure Analyses
- Leak Testing
- Geomembrane Repairs
CTS will help uncover the origination of a failure problem, and forensically assess whether failures are material or construction related, natural or man-made, the result of chemical or physical forces, etc, for all geosynthetics and engineered plastics.
Failure Analysis Projects Include:
- Holes and blemishes in heap leach pad liners - Australia
- Catastrophic failure in agitated process water basins for power plants – New Jersey, USA
- Joint failure in HDPE pipelines – Texas, USA
- Fractures and holes in geomembrane lined acid ponds and drainage ditches - Chile
- Failures in concrete embedment liners for concrete sewer pipe - Nebraska, USA
- Concrete attachment and other ruptures in waste water impoundments – The Middle East
- Leakage in mine process tanks for concrete embedment liners - Australia
- Failures in process water tank linings – Texas, USA
- Inordinate seam failures in landfill liners – New York, USA
- Failures in pre-fabricated geosynthetics - Peru
- Holes and other damage in power plant holding ponds – Texas, USA
- Leaks in agriculture digestion ponds – Texas, USA
- Leakage from water storage tank - Canada
Expert Witness Services
Many forensic/failure analyses lead to obligations by responsible parties, sometimes resulting in litigation. Mark Cadwallader is an experienced expert witness who has provided services for a number of such cases.
Contact CTS for help with your failure problem or need for an expert witness.
CTS provides problem location with analysis of probable cause.
