Engineering Failure Analysis and Materials Evaluation

Failure analysis and prevention are important applications of all engineering disciplines. The materials engineer often plays a lead role in the analysis of failures, whether a component or product fails in service or if failure occurs in manufacturing or during production processing. The cause of failure must be determined in order to prevent future occurrence, and/or to improve the performance of the component or structure.

In most cases, equipment failures are caused by one of the following reasons or a combination of them: 

• Poor Design,
• Incorrect use of materials,
• Manufacturing Defects,
• Operational Conditions.
  
  

TÜV CYPRUS in collaboration with TÜV HELLAS performs failure analysis services and can evaluate the cause of failure for a wide range of industrial equipment including:

• Every type of pressure vessel,
• Welded structures,
• Piping,
• Mechanical fasteners and bolts,
• Excavating equipment components,
• Lifting equipment/metallic structures,
• Rotating equipment (pumps, compressors, shafts, turbines).
  
  

Our organization provides material evaluation services such as:

• Material property evaluation,
• Material suitability evaluation for various uses,
• Evaluation of subcontractor material quality,
• Evaluation of material replacement,
• Evaluation of materials conformity to required specifications,
• Development of non-destructive procedures for materials control.