Energy Claims
Forensic Investigation

This two-day, course is designed for professionals within the insurance industry, including insurers, claims teams, brokers, loss adjusters, and legal practitioners, who may be required to work on matters where significant accidents, incidents, or failures have occurred. The course is suitable for individuals working with any major industrial sector, including Energy, Renewables, Marine and Aerospace.

The objective of the course is to provide delegates with an overview of the wide range of scientific techniques and strategies available when conducting a forensic investigation into the cause of an accident, incident or failure.

To meet this objective, the course will provide an understanding of common failure mechanisms, the forensic engineering techniques and strategies used to identify them, together with guidance on the instigation and management of a “forensic level” investigation. The course  will include a mixture of classroom-based learning,  hands-on workshops and laboratory demonstrations. No prior scientific knowledge in required and the course is delivered at a level to suit all academic backgrounds.The course will include the following areas of interest:

• • Introduction to Root Cause & Failure Analysis
  • Principles of Forensic Investigation
  • Metallurgical/Chemical Laboratory Techniques
  • Corrosion
  • Structure and Component Failure
  • Non-destructive Testing
  • Fire & Explosion Investigation
  • Bio-corrosion and other Microbial activities
  • Fatigue and Fatigue Life

Composite MaterialsInvestigation techniques considered include:

• Metallurgical techniques
  • Tensile, Bending and Hardness Testing
  • Impact Testing (Room Temperature and Sub Zero)
  • Crack Testing including Crack Tip Opening Displacement
  • Fatigue Testing
  • Fractography
  • Microstructural Inspection
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy

• Non-destructive testing
  • Dye Penetrant Examination
  • X Ray Inspection
  • Ultrasonics
  • Laser Shearography · Atomic Analysis

• Chemical techniques
  • • Thermal Analysis
    • Spectral Analysis
    • Component Separation
    • Gas Chromatography
    • Mass Spectrometry
    • Infra-red Spectrometry
    • Fourier Transform Infra-red Spectrometry
    • Optical Emission Spectroscopy