Technical Assessing Articles
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Fatigue – Not a Tiring Matter
Fatigue failures are the most common types of fractures in machines and probably constitute about 90% of all fractures. Such fractures develop after a large number of load applications, generally at a stress level below the yield strength of the material...
Construction by Design
As a Loss Adjuster practising in the field of construction related insurances, I continually come across losses in which design failure is a major factor. Having established this, the agony of then interpreting the design exclusion to a construction policy then commences...
Glass - is it up to Scratch?
You’ve just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new house overlooking the bay. You’ve just moved in, and having opened the bubbly you look out of the new feature glass window at the wonderful view. As the sun begins to set you begin to notice spider webs all over the glas...
Shoring
Claims for damage caused by failure of shoring or lack of shoring are not infrequent. Shoring is the provision of temporary support to an excavation so that the contractor can proceed with construction of the permanent work...
Is there Damage to Property if that Property Undergoes no Physical Alteration?
Most general insurance relates to property damage and what these words mean is
often an issue in claim assessments. A Queensland case dealt with the meaning of
property damage as the words arose in a product liability wording...