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A transportable ammonia road tanker came uncoupled from its tractor, crashed onto a lower level freeway, and exploded. It caused significant personal injury and local damage. APTECH performed metallurgical and fracture analyses to establish the root cause of the tank car's structure failure that led to the crash and explosion.

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.

Kimble Clark, Ph.D.		Failure analysis, heat transfer & thermodynamics, process plant equipment failures & explosions, fuel science, combustion, industrial fires and explosions.

Richard Schreiber, P.E.		Machinery and mechanical device failure analysis, mechanical testing, combustion and heat transfer, industrial fires and explosions, gas appliances.

Jeffrey Grover, P.E.		Mechanical engineering, failure analysis, civil engineering.

Geoffrey Egan, Ph.D.		Engineering mechanics, welding engineering, stress and fatigue analysis, risk analysis.