Failure and Forensic Analysis
We'll help you find the initiation site and the cause of materials failures in geomembrane liners (landfills, covers, canals, ponds, dams), other geosynthetics, plastic and composite pipe, plastic and composite tanks, engineering plastics, plastic fasteners, awnings, and yacht hulls.

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Our projects include:
  • Holes and surface damage in hazardous waste cell HDPE geomembrane - Finland;
  • Cracking in HDPE and PVC geomembrane/pipes (Worldwide);
  • Color loss in awning - Florida;
  • Geonet damage and holes in HDPE geomembrane of hazardous waste site after collapse of berm - South Carolina;
  • Seam peel failures in HDPE cap of municipal landfill - Pennsylvania;
  • Artifacts in HDPE geomembrane - England;
  • Low seam strengths in high strength PET woven geotextiles - Delaware;
  • Cracking in HDPE, PVC, CPVC, and Kynar pipes;
  • Low temperature cracking of geonet in geonet/geotextile composite -Pennsylvania;
  • Extensive leakage through GCL - Montana;
  • Secondary liner for gasoline storage in proposed gas station - UK.
  • Cracking in pond PP geomembranes - USA.
  • Leaks in concrete stud liners - USA, Puerto Rico, and Australia.

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CLIENTS include: Laidlaw, EPI, Government of the Northwest Territories, J & L/Tenax, US Sugar, Intermountain Power, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Public Service of New Mexico, BFI, Texaco, CARPI (Italy), US Department of Energy, Aspinwall (UK), RTA (Finland), Leighton Contractors (Australia)

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