Mark Lawrence, Ph.D., P.E.
Engineering Mechanics & Reliability
Dr. Lawrence has over 30 years of experience in teaching, research, and engineering consulting. With a background in both civil and mechanical engineering, Dr. Lawrence provides broad expertise in engineering mechanics and reliability as applied to constructed facilities, construction equipment, industrial machinery, and consumer products.
Representative investigations
- Collapse of seven million cubic foot rack-supported storage facility
- Burst of underground diesel fuel line with environmental damage
- Collapse of 450-foot crane during a half-million pound lift
- Fatigue failures in boiler superheater tubes
- Rupture of underground natural gas line with explosion and fire at power plant
- Bridge damage due to impact of a 75 million pound cargo vessel
- Collapse of large-diameter underground cooling water pipeline at power plant
- Tower crane collapses during building construction
- Metal halide lamp explosions with resulting fires
- Environmental stress cracking in polymer HVAC equipment
- Scaffolding failures
- Construction site falls and other accidents
- Welded and bolted connection failures
- Residential, commercial, and industrial structural failures
- Manlift tipovers and structural collapses