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Keeping Your Cool - About Air Conditioning

Up until around the 1960s, fans were the appliance of choice for pulling cool air into a hot room. Today, and thanks to a clever inventor’s sweat equity, the invention of the modern air-conditioning system provides not only a way to cool air, but a way to reduce the humidity of the space being cooled.

2011

Tales from Skid Road - Tire Marks

When reconstructing a vehicle collision, there is a lot of information to gather and examine.

2011

Vehicle Control Systems

Vehicle Control Systems: electronic stability control systems compared to control-by-wire systems

2011

Voltage Surge vs. Lightning Strike

This article provides help in determining the difference between a voltage surge and a lightning strike.

2010

Tile Floors

Installation methods for tile floors

2010

Seeing Sparks with Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing (CSST)

Despite the benefits, corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) still has its vulnerabilities.

2009

Green Thumbs Can Save Greenbacks

A well-maintained landscape can play a part in maintaining the structural integrity of a concrete slab foundation.

2009

Get Your Mind into the Gutter

Installing gutters to protect your home is just the first step.

2008

Light but Smoky, with a Pungent Aftertaste

Tracing the source of soot

2007

Lights "On/Off" Evaluation

The relationship between the forces of an accident and the components of typical headlights or taillights allows for clues which can help those reconstructing an accident to determine whether the facts are consistent with a witness’s statement.

2007
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Automotive / Vehicle

  • Drive Shaft Fracture in Boat Engine
  • Fracture Surface Determines Cause of Boat Damage
  • Head-On Collision Reconstruction
  • Heavy Vehicle Tire Failure
  • Stolen-Recovered-Burned Vehicle
  • Suspicious Fire or Just Another Hot Wire?
  • Uncontrolled Acceleration of a Vehicle

Fires & Explosions

  • A Fire 14 Months in the Making
  • Cargo Catches Fire
  • Explosion Levels Boarding House
  • Fire Traced to Cook Top
  • Suspicious Fire or Just Another Hot Wire?

Materials Testing & Analysis

  • Drive Shaft Fracture in Boat Engine
  • Hot Water Faucet Injury
  • What Led to Lead Bath Pan Fracture?

Products

  • Door Closer Evaluation
  • Hot Water Faucet Injury
  • Wheelbarrow Injury

Property

  • Ceiling Collapse
  • Moisture Damage Weakens Floor Framing
  • Pre or Post-Storm Damage?
  • Premature Aging of a Shingled Roof
  • Shrinking Soil and Foundation Settlement
  • Water Intrusion Into a Commercial Building
  • Water-Damaged Stucco
  • Wind Damage to Dock Structure

Workplace

  • Aerial Lift Operator Injury
  • Fatality Involving Fractured Gate Valve Housing

Construction

  • Construction Error or Design Defect?
  • Design Defect: Agricultural Storage Bins
  • Distressed Floors, Distressed Walls, Distressed Design Methodology

Failure Analysis

  • Hip Replacement Screw Fracture Analysis
  • Medical Instrument Failure Analysis
  • Moped Accident and a Fractured Gear Tooth
  • Plastic Boat Seat and a Fatality
  • Tour Bus Fire Failure Analysis

Products

  • Injury at a Guarded Location
  • Negligence on the Job and Injured Workers

Claim Review and Analysis

  • Gasoline Storage Tank Fire
  • Pipeline Compressor Fire
  • Power Plant Boiler Explosion
  • Power System and Operating Unit Incidents
  • Water Damage to Electrical Equipment

Damage Assessment

  • Embankment Erosion
  • Fire-Related Damage to a Food Processing Facility
  • Making Sense of Four Fallen Container Cranes
  • Which Came First - The Fire or the Overspeed?

Litigation Support

  • Microbiological Corrosion
  • Winery Contamination

Origin and Cause

  • A Fire 14 Months in the Making
  • A Power Loss and a Damaged High Voltage Transformer
  • Communications Tower Collapse
  • Power Shovel Fire
  • What Led to Lead Bath Pan Fracture?

Repair/ Reconstruction Monitoring

  • Power Station Incident
  • Structural Monitoring of Problematic Construction

Valuation

  • Ammonia Refrigeration System Moisture Damage
  • Fire and Explosion in a Process Furnace
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