Wright Medical Technology Changed Material in 2009, but Issued No Warnings or Recalls Posted By: MarketWatch.com Source: Stephen I. Leshner, P.C A Phoenix man filed a lawsuit today in U.S. District Court against Wright Medical Technology, Inc. and Wright Medical Group, Inc. after needing emergency surgery following a sudden catastrophic fracture of the titanium modular [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Lawsuit Cites Design Defect, Negligence in Failure of Wright ProFemur Total Hip System That Fractured in Phoenix Patient
Posted in Corrosion, Failure, material science, mechanical failure, Medical Device, tagged cobalt-chromium, ProFemur Total Hip System, titanium alloy, Wright Medical Technology on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Corrosion Cited in Pipeline Explosion
Posted in Corrosion, Energy, Failure, life cycle management, tagged corrosion, pipeline corrosion, pipeline explosion, Transco on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by: www.demopolistimes.com Author: Jason Cannon A corroded pipe has been deemed the culprit of a massive natural gasoline explosion in Sweet Water last December. A Transco natural gas pipeline ruptured at approximately 3:07 p.m. Dec. 3 with an explosion that could be heard for more than 30 miles while shooting flames nearly 100 feet [...]
Recent Exam Failed to Detect Weak Sabo Bridge Cable
Posted in Civil Engineering, Failure, tagged bridge failure, cable bridge, Martin Olav Sabo Bridge, transportation on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted By: www.finance-commerce.com By Mark Anderson Whatever caused one of the 18 cables supporting the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge to break on Sunday night eluded bridge examiners just six months before when they conducted a major on-site review. That test was completed on the Sabo bridge in September, but the engineers discovered no signs of weakness. “There [...]
Skyscraper Maintenance Crackdown Urged
Posted in Civil Engineering, Corrosion, life cycle management, Operation & Maintenance, tagged architecture, corrosion, delamination, manitenance, Melbourne, skysc on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by: Engineering Source Australian architecture authority Archicentre has sent out a warning to the national architectural community that aging city buildings must be properly maintained in light of a recent, and dangerous, building related incident. The accident occurred when a large slab of marble located on the façade of a commercial skyscraper on Melbourne’s [...]
Engineering Failure On World’s Longest Bridge
Posted in Civil Engineering, Failure, mechanical failure, tagged bridge failure, British Columbia, Canada, construction, Fraser River, malfunction, Port Mann Bridge, Vancouver on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by: Designbuildsource.com The construction and engineering sector in Canada has had a major scare this past week with a significant mechanical malfunction on the current redevelopment of Port Mann Bridge, which connects the areas of Coquitlam and Surrey in British Columbia near Vancouver. One of the structure’s major construction pieces, the gantry, malfunctioned, sending [...]
TKA implant designers should further study mechanical testing
Posted in Medical, predictive analysis, reliability, Simulation Technology, tagged Durability, knee replacement, mechanical testing, orthopedics, predictive analysis, TKA innovation, total knee arthroplasty prostheses, wear on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by: Orthosupersite.com With informed patients asking their physicians about the expected longevity of total knee arthroplasty prostheses, orthopedic surgeons are faced with new questions and opportunities, according to presentations at the Current Concepts in Joint Replacement 2011 Winter Meeting. “I tell [patients] for each year they use the knee, they have about a 1% [...]
Boeing Inspects 787 Dreamliner for Possible Repairs
Posted in Commercial Airline, Operation & Maintenance, reliability, tagged 787, Boeing, carbon fiber composites, delamination, Dreamliner on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by: CNBC.com By: Phil LeBeau Boeing is inspecting its newest plane, the 787 Dreamliner for possible repairs to the carbon fiber composite structure of the plane. The issue involves a problem known as delamination. In laymen terms structural stiffeners, or shims, were not attached to the composite skin properly. Over time, this can cause [...]
BP gives $1 million for UAA lab to study metals corrosion
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted By: ADN.com ; Author: Mike Dunham BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. announced Monday that it was donating $1 million to the University of Alaska Anchorage to help create a lab to study the effects of corrosion on pipe metals. Tom Barrett, a retired Coast Guard admiral and deputy secretary of the Department of Transportation in the [...]
Authorities Order A380 Wing Crack Checks
Posted in aerospace, Fatigue, life cycle management, Operation & Maintenance, tagged A380, Airbus, airworthiness directive, EASA, wing cracks on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by: AviationWeek.com ; Robert Wall The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is ordering inspections of relatively high-cycle A380s to assess the extent to which a new set of wing cracks are affecting the Airbus fleet. The inspections and potential repairs could impact A380 operations, although so far the damage that prompted the EASA airworthiness [...]
