CTS Offers Complete and Cutting-Edge
- Product, Project, and Market Development
- Failure Analyses and Fixes
- CQA
- Inspections
- Geomembrane Repairs and Small Pond Installations
Forensic and Failure Analysis
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.
CTS 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.
Contact CTS for help with your failure problem or need for an expert witness.