A woman was leaning on a sink in a public restroom. She was resting on one arm while looking into a mirror above the sink. Suddenly the sink fell off the wall and injured her foot. The cause of failure was severe corrosion of the cast iron bracket that held the sink to the sall. […]
Failure Analysis Expert Examines a Corrosion Failure
Corrosion engineer performed a metallurgy failure analysis to determine the cause of prematurely failing burners in a particular brand of gas grill. The burners in question would fail completely after two or three years of service. The failure analysis of the burner revealed that the grill manufacturer made the subject gas burners from an inferior […]