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AIS Forensic Testing Laboratory, Inc.

Water tube (WT) boiler retubed after overheating.AIS Forensic Testing Laboratory, Inc. is a forensic engineering consulting firm that applies expert engineering, technical testing in a laboratory facility with scientific objectivity.

AIS provides expert forensic engineering for failures and accident investigations on specialty equipment including fire and explosions. AIS will determine the failures and causes of your accident whether the accident or failure involves people, property, inadequate engineering design, materials deficiencies, poor fabrication, in-complete installation, operator error, boiler explosions, less than adequate repairs, inferior maintenance, steam explosions, and insufficient safe guards.

AIS Forensic Testing Laboratory Inc. expertise is applied to both the private and public sectors on the following capital equipment:

boilers, heating plants, chillers, steam turbine generators, ammonia refrigeration evaporator equipment, water turbines, DA Tanks, machinery, electric switchgear, power & heating plant heat & mass balance, pressure vessels, piping, HTHW (high temperature hot water) pipe systems, steam tunnels, smoke stack, boiler chimney, valving, chemical tanks, safety devices, gearboxes, electrical transformers, ASME Code material fabrication compliance, street & grounds manholes and vehicles that are involved with this specialty equipment

 

High-voltage electrical cabling and buss failure.Our private sector clients include corporations, businesses, industry such as cement, chemical, forest products, mining, power generation, pulp & paper, building management companies, insurance-related firms, insurance companies, and law firms.

AIS public sector clients are from the federal government agencies, state government, foreign (friendly) governments, local governments, institutions, universities and hospitals.

 

 

Steam turbine rotor exhibiting crashing of rotating element to stationary element do to fast (15-minute ) cold start to closurer of generator breaker.AIS was originally founded in 1999 by Mr. Roland O’Brien-Bills, PE, MSc. as an accident investigation and forensic engineering firm with a laboratory with a mission to provide excellence by using AIS expert engineering service by improving the design through re-engineering. To bring greater service distinction to our clients, AIS mission was expanded to be a provider of corporate training by employing what was learned by accidents and experience in a traditional class room setting to instruct clients in accident prevention.

AIS Forensic Testing Laboratory Inc. was created and has grown to further the specialty expert engineering of forensics that enhances the clients mission and the mission of objective engineering in the world of forensics and losses & claims. Call us today at our toll free telephone number (800) 249-0959. Emergencies are welcomed.

AIS FORENSIC VIDEO
The video is the bursting of a residential hot water boiler at operating temperature. Allegedly, a similar residential hot water boiler was asserted to have exploded and threw itself forward through a wood studded wall with subsequent rolling over a distance of less than several yards in a finished basement with fittings and piping torn away. At the laboratory, the video shows a similar boiler bursting at operating temperature with no piping attached and the boiler was placed at the same distance from the masonry wall as the alleged hot water boiler. The video shows there is very little steam produced and there is no thrusting against the masonry wall of the hot water and fragments from the burst. The boiler did not move forward either.

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