Failure Testing

Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Pop tart flame test. Larry Anderson. MODEL RELEASED

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Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Roland Huet with broken window caused by impurity in glass. MODEL RELEASED

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Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. "Probeye" camera sees & measures thermal radiation: Chris Lund. MODEL RELEASED

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Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent)..Menlo Park, California. Insulation burn test.

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Safe cracking test at the Underwriters test Lab in Northbrook (Chicago) IL.

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Fire extinguisher test as the Underwriters test Lab in Northbrook (Chicago) IL.

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A drop test of a portable hand vacuum at the Underwriters test Lab in Northbrook (Chicago) IL.

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$Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (an engineering and scientific consulting firm now called Exponent). Menlo Park, California. Human thermal plume, Schlieren image. The human body heats air to form a rising plume. This is revealed by Schlieren photography, a way of viewing density changes in transparent materials. These changes (here caused by heat and convection turbulence) cause light passing through the air to bend (refract). The imaging method alters the color or brightness of this refracted light. The detection of chemicals in the human thermal plume may help detect terrorist explosives and diagnose diseases.$