Refractory Expert Witness

Palmer Technologies has been the leading expert witness in refractory failure matters for the past 20 years. We have experience in court, mediation and technical enclaves.

We have a combination of both academic and practical refractory experience enabling us to rigorously back our claims.

Clients include:

Our expert witness team is led by the foremost refractory expert, Dr Greg Palmer.

Icon EducationEducation
  1. University of Queensland, Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical)
  2. University of Queensland, Doctor of Philosophy (Civil Engineering)
    Research thesis - Failure mechanics of refractory concrete
Icon SeminarSeminar Presentations
  1. CSIRO/UNITED NATIONS Conference, Economic Growth with Cleaner Production, Recycling in the Cement and Concrete Industry
  2. The University of Queensland, The Fracture of Brittle Materials
  3. NASA Lewis Research Centre, USA, The Fracture of Brittle Materials
  4. Cement Industry Federation National Conference, Heat Transfer in Rotary Kilns
Icon PublishedPublished Papers
  1. Selecting Steel Anchors for Monolithic Refractory Linings, by G Palmer and M. Smillie, Refractory Application and News, V 12, No 5, September /October 2007
  2. The Behaviour of Monolithic Refractory and its Importance for the Design of Refractory Structures, by G Palmer and R Ellis, Refractory Application and News, V 12, No 6, November /December 2007
  3. Selecting Steel Anchors for Monolithic Refractory Linings – Part 1 Basics, by G Palmer and M. Smillie, ZKG International No1, V62, 2009
  4. Selecting Steel Anchors for Monolithic Refractory Linings – Part 2 Major failure mechanisms, by G Palmer and M. Smillie, ZKG International No3, V62, 2009
  5. Designing and Failure of Monolithic Refractory Structures – Part 1, by G Palmer and KC Tan, Refractory Application and News, V 14, No 3, May /June 2009
  6. Design and Failure of Monolithic Refractory Structures – Part 2, by G Palmer and KC Tan, Refractory Application and News, Vol. 14 No. 4 July/August 2009
  7. Heat Transfer Design Considerations for Refractory Linings with Steel Anchors Parts 1 & 2, by G Palmer and T Howes, Refractory Application Transactions, “accepted for publication – Refractory Worldforum”
  8. Petrographic Examination of Refractory Damage to a Burner Pipe, World Cement Vol 20 (8) 1989
  9. Analysis of Thermally Induced Fracture of Low Cement Refractory Rings, American Ceramic Bulletin, Vol 69 (6) 1990
  10. Ring Formations in Cement Kilns, World Cement Vol 21 (12) 1990
  11. Size Effect on Fracture Toughness and Firing Temperature for Low Cement Refractory, AustCeram 92, Proceedings of the International Ceramics Conference Australia, August 1992
  1. A Load Cycling Technique for R-Curve Behaviour: Application in a Low Cement Refractory, International Journal of Fracture, Vol 63 July 1993
  2. Strength Loss in Low Cement Refractory Structures, World Cement Vol 25 (6) 1994
  3. Recycling in the Cement and Concrete Industry, Process and Control Engineering, June 1994
  4. Specimen Size Effect on Fracture Toughness for a Low Cement Refractory, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics Vol 22 p51-61 1995
  5. Thermo-Mechanical Stress Analysis of Low Cement Refractory Castable on Cement Kiln Burner Pipes, Zement-Kalk Gips (ZKG), January 1996
  6. Heat Transfer in Rotary Kilns, Cement Industry Federation Technical Conference, September 1998
  7. Effect of Lifter Design on Drying Performance in Rotary Dryers Driver, J., Hardin, M.T., Howes, T. and Palmer, G., Drying. Tech. V21, pp369-381, 2003
  8. Failure of Pool Copings, Tile Today, December 2002
  9. Testing the integrity of Refractory Lined Vessels using the NDT Technique P-Response, by G Palmer, ZKG International, V 58, No9, 2005
  10. Refractory Concrete Reinforced with Stainless Steel Fibre, G Palmer, Refractory Application and News, V 10, No 2, March/April 2005
  11. The Calculation of Transient and Steady State Heat Transfer in Refractory Linings under various Conditions, by G Palmer and T Howes, Refractory Application and News, V 12, No 1, January /February 2007
  12. Selecting Steel Anchors for Monolithic Refractory Linings, by G Palmer and M. Smillie, Refractory Application and News, V 12, No 5, September /October 2007