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Expert Witness #234032
This expert brings to the table many years of automotive industry and consulting experience in the design, development, testing, and analysis of domestic and foreign automotive products and components. This expert's experience gives a broad level of expertise, including the design, performance, testing, and manufacturing of vehicle body systems and components, energy absorbing frame elements, bumpers, roofs, closures (doors systems, hoods, trunk lids, folding tops), seats, trim and sealing systems. This expert has conducted and/or witnessed and analyzed the results from more than 200 full-scale vehicle crash tests in new product development, FMVSS and foreign certification, accident reconstruction validation, and research. This expert has also conducted numerous developmental and FMVSS certification tests on component-level items such as roofs, door beams and structures, door latches, door hinges, seat belt anchorages, and bumper systems.
This expert's experience with folding roof systems extends back many years when this expert was responsible for development and testing of a manual folding top system. This expert was responsible for the design and development of a luxury car manual folding top and a sports car manual folding top. This expert was contracted full-time as Director of Engineering to develop a power folding hardtop roof system. Sometime later, this expert was engaged as an expert in an IP matter involving the design of a folding roof system, including patent validity and infringement analyses and reports.
This expert has worked on several patent cases involving the design and function of mechanical systems on automotive products and vehicles.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #255754
This expert holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and is a licensed registered Professional Engineer (PE). This expert brings to the table many years as a consultant, specializing in both the design and the forensics aspects of engineering design for consumer and industrial machine systems. As President of a highly sought-after consultancy, this expert provides on-site product testing and laboratory services as well as computer animation and simulation, accident reconstruction and safety audits.
This expert has prior litigation experience and has worked as an expert on patent matters. This includes the evaluation of pivoting/extendable/ expandable/telescoping devices. This expert was involved in the evaluation of patents on an extensible boom and traversing boom system for telescoping rough terrain lift trucks. This dispute focused on the method in which the extendable carriage system framework mechanism functioned. In forensic work, this expert has reviewed and researched hundreds of patents, and written reports regarding all sorts of pivoting and extendable mechanical devices, including rotating and extending dock levelers, extendable/telescoping ladder systems (household and truck mounted), extendable boom lift trucks, scissor lifts, etc.
In addition to work as a consultant, this expert serves as adjunct faculty. Through this expert's teaching experience, this expert has become adept and taking complicated mechanisms and devices and making them easy to understand for the lay person.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #252122
This expert is a Mechanical Engineer, licensed Professional Engineer and member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and ASME. This expert has been qualified as an expert in vehicle engineering, crashworthiness, vehicle repair, and accident reconstruction, in State and Federal courts.
This expert occupied a variety of engineering positions with automobile manufacturers. This expert’s expertise covers a diverse body of work in all aspects of vehicle design and manufacture, from cradle to grave. This expert designed and engineered systems for vehicles before a single prototype had been built, tuned and validated systems on prototype vehicles, assisted the manufacturing plant to resolve manufacturing issues while building 300 -700 vehicles a day, and made improvements to enhance vehicle quality after the start of manufacture.
This expert was responsible for the design and engineering for a diesel fuel system. This included fuel tank design, filler tube, fuel supply and return lines, thermal management, and impact energy management. This expert ensured fuel system met FMVSS 301, Fuel System Integrity, to prevent post-impact fuel-fed fires, and addressed quality and reliability issues in current production parts. This expert designed and released future model parts, supported prototype builds, and planned and executed trips to test functionality in extreme climates. This expert was also responsible for quality enhancements to all products’ fuel systems.
In addition, this expert is the inventor on two (2) US Patents dealing with vehicle fuel tank design and engineering and is published in the field.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #798266
This expert is an automotive engineer with diverse experience in production vehicles, military vehicles, and motorsports. This expert applies expertise to intellectual property disputes as well as vehicle crash investigations, including crash reconstructions, crashworthiness investigations, and analyses of vehicle systems performance. This expert is a Professional Engineer, earned engineering degrees from two of the nation's most respected programs, and has hands-on experience designing and testing complete vehicles and automotive products.
Upon completion of a degree in Mechanical Engineering, this expert worked with an automobile manufacturer. This expert was responsible for ensuring that vehicles complied with governmental safety guidelines; this expert conducted computer simulations and real-world testing on complete vehicles as well as individual vehicle components.
This expert co-founded an engineering design, prototyping, and consulting company catering to the motorsports industry. This expert remained active in this venture, during which this expert transitioned full-time to an engineering company that provides vehicle durability and performance testing for automotive and motorcycle manufacturers as well as motorsports teams. This expert spent years testing military vehicles for handling and performance, and rollover resistance.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #261066
This expert is an automotive engineer with many years of professional experience, including working directly for automotive manufacturers. This expert has direct design and testing experience in vehicle structures, crashworthiness, and closure systems engineering. This expert applies expertise to expert witness investigations pertaining to vehicle crashworthiness, crash reconstruction, vehicle systems performance, and exterior/interior upper body mechanisms.
Upon completion of a degree in Mechanical Engineering, this expert held positions in Body Design, Closures Design, and Crash Safety. As a Crash Safety engineer, this expert was responsible for ensuring achievement of dynamic safety targets, both on a component basis and as complete vehicle performance. This included work in both the virtual design phase by simulation analysis, as well as overseeing and analyzing physical crash testing. This expert performed design/test work on sedans, pickup trucks, crossovers, and cargo vehicles throughout the entire development lifecycle and into mass production.
Continuing an automotive career, this expert then worked in Research & Development, where this expert was responsible for closures design engineering as a design team chief. This expert led a team of design engineers in developing all aspects of minivan slide doors. This expert also served as design chief for minor-model updates on pickup truck door and tailgate closures. This expert has expertise in all elements of upper body design, including structures, dynamic and static crash safety, sealing, NVH, power-door systems, latches, and exterior/interior components, among others.
This expert earned an Engineering degree from one of the nation's most respected programs. This expert has accumulated a multitude of patents for key innovations in upper body design. This expert's education and deep industry experience designing and testing vehicles qualify this expert to investigate a broad range of vehicle topics.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #233950
This mechanical engineering and accident reconstruction expert holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a P.E. credential, and brings over 20 years of automotive engineering experience.
This expert has analyzed and reconstructed crashes involving commercial vehicles, motorcycles, pedestrians, and off-road vehicles. These projects have involved human factors, visibility issues, and mechanical design issues. This expert's approach to vehicle crash analysis and reconstruction uses current software and simulation tools, as well as data acquisition tools.
Over the course of this expert's career, this expert has authored numerous technical papers and articles, primarily in crash reconstruction, with additional work involving vibrations and acoustics. This expert was a co-instructor of an accident reconstruction methods continuing education seminar for more than a decade and is co-author of a book on vehicle accident analysis and reconstruction methods.
This expert has experience with truck crash reconstruction, stationary tanker trailer catwalks, vehicle ladders, falls from height, and computer modeling of body motion in fall scenarios.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #264310
This accident reconstruction expert holds a Ph.D., is a P.E., and is a Professional Engineer with over 25 years of experience in forensic engineering and accident reconstruction. This expert has investigated thousands of motor vehicle collisions, applying expertise in vehicle dynamics, crash causation, and failure analysis. This expert's expertise includes accident reconstruction and vehicle dynamics, crash causation and impact analysis, roadway design and safety systems, and failure analysis of mechanical systems.
This expert has reconstructed electric vehicle collisions and is familiar with vehicle data download and interpretation processes. This expert has extensive testimony experience in state and federal courts, providing reports, depositions, and trial testimony for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #271714
This biomechanics expert holds a PhD and is a licensed Professional Engineer specializing in biomechanical analysis, determination of injury causation and injury mechanisms, accident reconstruction, and mechanical engineering.
This expert also has extensive experience in computational modeling, mechanical testing, failure analysis, measurement instrumentation, inquiry and analysis of national motor vehicle injury and vehicle crash databases, and experimental design.
This expert has expertise in a wide range of investigative scenarios, including accident reconstruction, slips, trips, and falls, product premises liability claims, and injury causation.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #281403
Location Calculation Expert
This expert's consulting firm provides expertise in the areas of mechanical engineering, accident reconstruction, finite element analysis (FEA), and transportation safety. This expert has a strong background in kinematic and dynamic analysis and has taught several university classes in Kinematics and Dynamics of objects. This expert also used kinematic analysis in many vehicle and motorcycle accident cases and can also create an animation video to visually represent the location of the vehicle relative to the traffic light and other surroundings immediately before and during an incident.
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Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #282246
This traffic safety expert has over 40 years of experience in civil engineering, transportation planning, traffic engineering, and accident reconstruction, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in multiple states.
Career work has included serving as engineer-in-charge or principal project engineer on numerous transportation and civil engineering projects, including traffic safety studies, accident investigations and reconstructions, traffic circulation and parking studies, environmental impact studies, bridge and highway design, construction and maintenance projects, and computer-based design of transportation systems.
This expert has developed computerized sign structure and traffic signal design programs and systems, as well as accident reconstruction manuals and tools. This expert has also completed flagger training, has been qualified by courts as an expert in numerous cases involving flaggers, and is familiar with flagger training requirements and OSHA safety standards applicable to flagging operations.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #283779
This freight brokering expert holds a PhD and has decades of experience in trucking, trucking safety, freight brokering, cargo securement, accident investigation, and transportation safety management.
This expert has served in senior safety and risk management leadership for a major bulk motor carrier and has worked as a Special Investigator and Accident Investigation Specialist for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
This expert's experience with duties and obligations for trailer inspection includes a number of years as an owner-operator and transloading facility owner, including transloading and securing cargo such as heavy equipment, coils and plate steel, lumber, poles, and heavy machinery. This expert also received training and inspected various types of equipment and cargo as a Special Investigator and Accident Reconstruction Specialist for the FMCSA.
This expert has served in safety and risk management leadership for multiple motor carriers and has continued in the industry providing training, consulting, accident investigation, and expert witness services for over 20 years.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #286730
This automotive failure analysis expert is an engineer with a BS in Biomedical Engineering from a well-regarded research university and leads an engineering consultancy specializing in traffic accident reconstruction and automotive test engineering.
This expert has over 20 years of experience running automotive handling tests, component testing, component failure analysis, setting up test instrumentation, and performing automotive crash testing. This work involves inspection, repair, and troubleshooting of various automotive systems and components. This expert has experience with CDR/EDR download and analysis, as well as accident reconstruction including failure analysis. This expert has also been involved with numerous low-speed crash tests, and the results of some of these tests have been published through a professional automotive engineering society. This expert has tested ADAS systems, including lane keeping assist systems.
This expert has prior expert witness experience, including deposition and testimony, and has worked for various insurance companies.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #292762
This biomechanics expert holds an M.D. and Ph.D. and has experience in clinical medicine, injury biomechanics, accident reconstruction, and injury causation. This expert earned a Medical Doctorate and practiced medicine as a Primary Care Physician for more than five years before earning degrees in Engineering and Bioengineering, including advanced study in biomechanics, from a well-regarded university.
This expert later joined a major engineering and scientific consulting firm, working as an Engineer/Scientist in a biomechanics practice for a number of years and receiving significant on-the-job training in accident reconstruction, crush analysis, and occupant kinematics during motor vehicle accidents. This expert also serves as an Adjunct Professor in a university bioengineering department and conducts clinical research on the mechanisms through which repetitive strain injuries of nerves and tendons occur, as well as acute and chronic changes in musculoskeletal systems through the collection and analysis of biomechanical data.
This expert has over 30 years of experience in clinical medicine, injury biomechanics, accident reconstruction, and injury causation. This expert has authored or coauthored several journal articles, abstracts, proceedings papers, and numerous extended reports in these areas, and is a member of professional organizations in automotive engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomechanics, and automotive medicine.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #293878
This forensic engineering expert is a licensed Professional Engineer with graduate degrees in engineering and experience in accident reconstruction, vehicle systems, product defects, and failure analysis.
This expert holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.Sc. in Engineering, and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from well-regarded engineering universities. Training includes inspection of accident scenes, passenger vehicles, and heavy vehicles for defects and accident causation, as well as imaging and analysis of Event Data Recorders, Electronic Control Modules, and vehicle brake systems.
This expert has been trained to use computer models for vehicle dynamics simulations and accident reconstructions. Experience also includes investigations involving product defects and the creation of failure analysis models to determine causation and support opinions.
To support accident reconstructions, this expert has conducted testing of industrial and consumer products and equipment involved in accidents resulting in bodily harm. This expert has provided assessments and reports regarding accident causation, product failure, and defect analysis.
This expert has inspected and tested agricultural tractors, skid steer loaders, construction equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, dump trucks, plow trucks, motorcycles, and passenger vehicles as part of forensic engineering investigations and accident reconstructions. Additional experience includes maintenance and operation of farm equipment, familiarity with agricultural implements, harvesters, and tractors, and review of data from GPS-based and vehicle-based control modules, including systems commonly referred to as black boxes. This expert is also familiar with driving systems for agricultural tractors.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #296727
This accident reconstruction expert is a Mechanical Engineer with over 10 years of experience as an accident reconstructionist. Expertise includes interpreting vehicle event data recorders, evaluating human factors relating to incidents, and conducting motor vehicle inspections. This expert is an active board member of a regional technical accident investigation association and an accredited accident reconstructionist.
This expert regularly inspects vehicles and images event data recorders, including airbag control modules. As an accident reconstructionist, this expert analyzes electronic data stored on event data recorders and corroborates it with physical evidence and other validating information. Experience includes in-house testing and crashworthiness analysis, particularly involving supplemental restraint systems.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant who has assisted in hundreds of cases.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #300117
This human factors/biomechanics expert holds a Ph.D. in Human Performance with an emphasis in biomechanics and consults and provides expert witness services in injury biomechanics, products liability, visibility analysis, premises liability, collision and accident reconstruction, and slip, trip, and fall reconstruction.
This expert is also a member of several standards committees addressing forensic sciences, forensic engineering, pedestrian and walkway safety, and exoskeletons and exosuits, including human factors and ergonomics.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Accident Reconstruction Expert SearchExpert Witness #301585
This biomechanics and accident reconstruction expert holds a Ph.D., is a licensed Professional Engineer, is accredited as a traffic accident reconstructionist, and has investigated hundreds of cases involving vehicle accident reconstruction, biomechanics, occupant kinematics, injury thresholds, and premises liability. This expert's experience includes biomechanical analysis of injury mechanisms, causation analysis, injury reconstruction, fracture mechanics, and failure analysis, including using engineering analysis to determine the origin and cause of human injury.
This expert is a Walkway Auditor Certificate Holder (WACH) with experience evaluating coefficient of friction testing of walkway surfaces, and continues to conduct research and maintain current knowledge in the biomechanics and engineering fields. This expert has experience reconstructing many types of accidents, including incidents involving injuries from falls. This expert's background in biomechanics supports analysis of incident dynamics before, during, and after an event, including how an injury may have occurred, the forces involved, the geometry of a fall, and how a person may have interacted with the surrounding environment. This expert has worked on falls from heights, including falls down stairways, from ladders, and from platforms and ledges.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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