Equipment we investigate and interpret
- Boiler tubes — overheating, creep, corrosion and water-chemistry-related failures. Boiler-tube failures explained →
- Heat exchangers — tube failures, corrosion, fouling-related degradation and vibration damage.
- Pipework — corrosion, erosion-corrosion, cracking and weld-related failures.
- Rotating equipment — shaft, impeller and blade failures; fatigue and wear mechanisms.
Restart and recurrence decisions
Process-industry failures usually carry a production cost per day. MTIS structures investigations around the decisions that matter: what evidence must be captured before cleaning or repair; what a restart requires to be defensible; and — for recurring failures — what evidence distinguishes the competing explanations so the cycle actually stops. Interim findings can be agreed where a restart decision cannot wait for the full report.
Why materials judgement matters here
Most process-equipment failures sit at the junction of operation and material: a water-chemistry excursion that overheated a boiler tube, a flow disturbance that turned general corrosion into erosion-corrosion, a repair weld that changed the local microstructure. Reading that junction correctly is the difference between replacing a part and solving a problem — which is why MTIS investigations always connect the mechanism to the operating history, not just to the fracture surface.