C&S Consulting

What Does C&S Consulting Have To Offer

C&S Consulting has been offering specialized engineering services to the insurance industry, law offices and light industry in central Missouri since 1986. If you have a specialized engineering need, explore our services and see how we can help you.

Building Inspection

Whether your looking to have an existing home inspected for your purchase, looking for an ongoing inspection of your new construction, or considering purchase of a retail space or apartment building, C&S can provide professional, high quality inspection services.

Fire Cause and Origin

Cause and origin investigations, taking the investigation down to and into the actual device or appliance involved.

Specialized Automation

C&S can offer custom automation system design and construction, including LabVIEW measurement and control programming.

Failure Analysis Testing

C&S can evaluate equipment and devices for failure modes and provide scientific and engineering expertise for liability cases and Insurance claims.

Recent Projects

Four Bar Linkage student experiment

This system was developed for a local University to allow students to explore the properties of Four Bar linkage mechanisms.

intermediate pressure regulator test

Testing of intermediate pressure regulator suspected of failure in over pressure fire related incident.

Examination and test of failed water heater control valve

Testing of suspected failed water heater control valve involved in structure fire incident. Pressure tests, bubble tests and physical inspection showed that the valve had not failed but was over pressured by a failed intermediate pressure regulator.

Oil filled space heater cause and origin

Examination of oil filled space heater for component / subsystem failure in residential fire case.

Testing of water hammer induced stresses in 6 PVC pipe elbow.

Testing of water hammer induced stresses in factory water main failure incident.

Testing of leaf spring rocking chair to critical failure

Cyclic rocking test of a leaf spring rocking chair until support spring fracture failure based on known occupant weight and fixed rocking displacement to simulate life cycle limits.

Testing of inverted pour nozzle type gas can

Test of inverted pour nozzle gas can to demonstrate how little temperature change is required to drive gasoline up the nozzle and out of the can.

Flame front quench tests

Testing effectiveness of flame front quenching of brass screen in gas can pour spout.

Servo control panel

Typical custom control panel for a dual servo system with integrated data acquisition and control.

brloken mower

Rotating disk experiment

One disk of two interlocking disks designed to fill a container on the fly as part of a larger test system to study the interface of two fluids under high G forces.