PEO York Chapter - Failures of Designed Components, Devices, and Structures

Event Information:

The products we use every day are designed to make our lives easier. Items such as:

• Wind turbines that produce electricity augmenting the electrical power grid.
• Heat pumps that make our places warm in winter and cooler in summer.
• Machines that ensure our vacuum-packed cold cuts shipped to the grocery stores are not contaminated with bacteria.

Unfortunately, these items sometimes fail. Some of them function reliably in the long-term while others fail shortly after their installation or purchase. Such occurrences, always related to a substantial material loss pose questions such as why this happened and what should we do to avoid the recurrence of a such event in the future.

The failure investigations that are going to be discussed in this seminar are intended to answer some of these questions.

Event Breakdown:

6:30 - 6:35 pm  Opening Remarks
6:35 - 7:30 pm  Presentation
7:30 - 8:00 pm  Q & A
8:00 - 8:30 pm  Professional Networking

Our Speaker:

Martin Lazarek, P.Eng.
Senior Forensic Engineer, Pario - Engineering & Environmental Sciences

Martin’s professional experience spans over 15 years and encompasses a wide range of investigations, including cases of failed vehicles’ components (dump trucks and tractor trailers), cranes, large and small gas and diesel engines, components of commercial aircraft, piping installations, sprinkler systems, failures of large manufacturing tools and devices, etc. (over 2500 investigations and counting). Martin started his engineering career working as a Heat Treat Operator in an Aerospace Plant. He also worked as a Metallurgical Technician in Aerospace and Automotive Laboratories (SPAR Aerospace, Derlan Aerospace, Northstar Aerospace, Acuren Group) and worked as a Senior Mechanical / Metallurgical Engineer. The list of his clients included Boeing Vertol, Boeing MESA, GE Aerospace, Bell Textron, Sikorsky Aircraft, Westland Helicopters, GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda. He applies his broad expertise in the forensic engineering field as a consulting engineer.