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Background
Failure Analysis and Expert Witness Services
Background
Exova has many years of experience in conducting metallurgical failure analysis and related field investigations across a wide range of industry sectors. Our clients include manufacturers dealing with customer complaints, consumer protection bodies, insurance companies, end users (from all major industry sectors e.g. oil and gas and aerospace), importers and those interested in reverse engineering. Exova has professionally qualified metallurgists, chemists, materials and polymer scientists who are experienced in report preparation for litigation support, performing routine product verification and failure analysis reports.
Exova’s laboratories are equipped to provide a full analytical, mechanical testing and component testing service. Exova has a large number of scanning electron microscopes, fitted with analytical accessories, plus light microscopes and photographic systems.Portable chemical analysis and metallographic equipment is available to facilitate the in-situ examination of failed components (where the component cannot be removed from service or is too large to transport).
Exova has many years experience in this type of on-site investigation, having provided the service in challenging environments such as offshore oil and gas installations or inside a power generation plant.
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Exova offers Scanning Electron Microscopy
Failure Analysis and Expert Witness Services
Failure Analysis and Expert Witness service is offered from our European, America, Middle East and Asia Pacific facilities and includes:
- Accident Reconstruction
- Cause and Origin Investigations
- Comprehensive Failure Analysis
- Courtroom Exhibits
- Cracking and Embrittlement
- Documentation•Exemplar and Product Testing
- Expert Testimony
- Expert Witness Testimony
- Forensic Engineering
- Fractography
- Material Characterisation ww
- Photographic and Video
- Polymer Degradation
- Residual Stress Determination
- Stress Analysis
- Trace Evidence Analysis
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