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.

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