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In-Depth Failure Analysis

KKAI Presents This Week's Featured Teams
At KKAI, we only work with the best experts. Because we have so many fine teams of world-class experts working on projects worldwide, we feel it's important to highlight five teams each week to showcase their particular breadth and depth of knowledge.

These seasoned, senior-level teams of experts possess special qualifications within the in-depth failure analysis consulting services field. Click the following links to learn more.

• Catastrophe
• Biomechanics
• Creep
• Machinery
• IC

Or, click here to go directly to our full list of 60-plus in-depth failure analysis consulting services expert teams.

About In-Depth Failure Analysis Services

KKAI's world-class experts can assist clients with all forms of failure analysis - a form of forensic inquiry where teams collect and analyze data to determine the cause of failures in products, components, systems and structures and work to prevent them from recurring.

Failure analysis serves as an extremely valuable tool in manufacturing and testing across many fields, including the automotive, biomedical, construction, consumer product and electronics industries. Failure analysis can be conducted in two ways:

• By implementing scientific analytical methods such as electrical and mechanical measurements; or
• Through a speculative approach when data is not readily available but an action must be taken

Aircraft or automotive crashes where much of the evidence has been destroyed often require the latter form of failure analysis. In these cases, tools such as fault tree and fishbone diagrams allow experts to work through one or more viable theories until additional data is available. Even when using the speculative approach, the principles of scientific analysis are still applied to the extent possible; the speculative approach supplements the missing information only to form a working model or hypothesis.

Additionally, experts will sometimes label a device "no fault found" (NFF) when a failure's cause cannot be determined because the originally reported mode of failure could not be duplicated. NFF can result from defective electrical component connections, environmental factors, operator error, oxidation, software bugs and/or temporary circuit shorts or opens. In cases where a failure's root cause cannot be identified, experts can identify changes to improve system robustness, mitigate potential failure modes and minimize the likelihood of failure recurrence.

Where data regarding field failures is readily available, failure analysis activities are often supplemented with an analytical tool known as Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA). This analytical process provides a structured method for assembling and analyzing failure analysis and reliability data to predict the most likely causes of failure and the effects of those failures on system operation. KKAI has a number of experts who are adept at performing FMEA on both designs and processes.

How KKAI Can Help
Through the Center for Rapid Response Engineering® Solutions at KKAI headquarters, we assemble expert teams of any size or skill set combination to meet our clients' needs - no matter how complex the challenge.

From our home base, KKAI manages more than 500 world-class experts who work in locations worldwide, allowing KKAI to operate as a truly "virtual" corporation. When a client calls with an urgent matter, our patent-pending PrimeTrack® Project Management System can instantly page experts from KKAI's global organization to work both onsite and offsite to quickly solve a client's problem.

This benefit is realized through the full integration of all of KKAI's services. Our proprietary PrimeTrack® Instant Conferencing integrates our customer relationship management software, Intranet and phone and fax systems, creating levels of project management efficiency and oversight that are unmatched in this field.

Click on any of the following to find top-level, world-class expert team resumes for in-depth failure analysis in:

• Accident and close-call investigation/reconstruction
• Automotive chassis (suspension, steering and braking systems design/analysis)
• Biomechanics
• Catastrophe
• Chemical engineering
• Civil engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Electronic engineering
• Failure physics and chemistry
• Fire and explosions
• Mechanical engineering
• Metallurgical engineering
• Powertrain engineering
• Structural engineering
• Systems engineering
• Transformer

Or, click any of the following to read resumes of other top-level, world class in-depth failure analysis expert teams in fields including:

• Distribution damage analysis
• Focused ion beams (for nano or micro structures)
• Fracture mechanics
• Frequency synthesis, measurement and control systems
• Hazard analysis
• Magnified photography (up to 200x)
• Meeting OSHA regulations
• Metallurgy
• Process plant management systems
• Statistical analysis
• Stress analysis
• Thermal-hydraulics
• Vibration analysis
• Workplace risk/hazard evaluation

Finally, click below to find top-level resumes for experts in failure and design analysis for mechanical and electromechanical equipment, including investigations of:

• Coating
• Corrosion
• Creep
• Design defects analysis
• Erosion
• Fabrication and construction defects
• Fatigue
• Fracture
• Human error
• Improper material selection
• Poor welds
• Pumps
• Wear

Commonly requested KKAI failure analysis teams include:

• Bearing failure analysis
• Bolt failure analysis
• Component failure analysis
• Device failure analysis
• Electronic component failure analysis
• Electronic device failure analysis
• Electronics failure analysis
• Engineering failure analysis
• Expert witness
• Failure analysis testing
• Failure mode and effects analysis
• Failure point analysis
• Forensic engineering
• Integrated circuit failure analysis
• Machinery failure analysis
• Materials failure analysis
• Mechanical failure analysis
• Metallurgical failure analysis
• Plastic failure analysis
• Process failure mode and effects analysis
• Root cause failure analysis
• Steel failure analysis
• System failure analysis

KKAI's core competencies include:

• Engineering consulting experts
• Failure analysis and root cause consultants
• Forensic investigation experts
• Experts in design, quality, reliability, validation, due diligence

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Have an urgent engineering or scientific need that requires expert testimony, failure analysis or engineering consulting? Contact KKAI now for rapid response from a world-class expert.

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