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Flood Damage to Steel Supplier

A steel supplier storage yard adjacent to an estuary was subject to frequent flooding. The supplier sued the agency responsible for flood control for damages resulting from corrosion of steel materials. APTECH was hired by the agency to establish the validity of the damage claim. Our investigation included metallurgical analysis of the corrosion damage, as well as a financial analysis pertaining to the value of damaged material. Our findings, that the corrosion damage greatly exceeded that associated with a worse case flooding, indicated that the material had been subjected to other damage mechanisms such as stagnant water corrosion due to storage conditions.

Satish Almaula		Plant failure and root cause analysis; process and design engineering analysis; process technology development and testing; plant engineering, operations, maintenance and safety management; plant and process control system management.

Philip Lindsay, P.E.		Corrosion failure analysis, metallurgy, piping systems, corrosion mitigation, materials selection.

Geoffrey Egan, Ph.D.		Engineering mechanics, welding engineering, stress and fatigue analysis, risk analysis, nondestructive examination, project management.

Eric Sullivan, P.E.		Metallurgy, welding, failure analysis, fire and explosion investigations, equipment, piping.

Michael Cronin, P.E.		Stress analysis, design evaluation, engineering mechanics