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A three-alarm fire broke out in a 14-story, senior citizen apartment building. The fire caused several fatalities and significant property damage. The source of the fire was traced to one of the passenger elevators. APTECH was hired by the attorney for one of the defendants, the elevator maintenance company, to find the origin and cause of the fire. The plaintiff's expert witness had developed a seemingly logical theory that involved the lubricant tubing (installed by the defendant) having acted like a fuse to spread the fire from the machine room, through the walls, and into the elevator shaft (hoistway). Experiments designed and conducted by APTECH cast doubt on this theory. We demonstrated that a flame attached to the tubing would have been extinguished by the wall's insulation batting before it passed through to the hoistway.

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.

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

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

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