Glass Expert Witnesses
What is a glass expert witness?
Glass expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience in the glass industry. Some cases may require a materials or mechanical engineering expert, while others could be focused on architectural glass design and installation. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request an expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.
What types of cases require a glass expert witness?
A glass expert could provide expertise in intellectual property matters, such as a patent litigation a trade secret dispute. Product liability, personal injury accident reconstruction, and construction defects are also areas where an expert in glass is oftentimes required to provide litigation support. In addition, a law firm may request a glass expert for pre-litigation consulting services.
Glass expert witness case examples
Example litigation support projects utilizing a glass expert witness have involved:
- window glazing at an apartment building in New York,
- glass coatings quality control,
- New Jersey building codes,
- product failure causation involving glass bottles,
- curtainwall breakage,
- building envelopes, and
- commercial building fenestration at a site in Oklahoma.
What litigation support work might a glass expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support could include forensic engineering, failure analyses, research and literature review, authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and courtroom testimony.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a glass expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Glass Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Glass experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Glass landscape.
Expert Witness #135336
This expert is the principal consultant and expert witness in a successful materials failure analysis consulting firm. This expert has a Ph.D. in Materials Science and is a former Senior Process Engineer at a technology company. This expert has been analyzing glass failures and manufacturing techniques throughout this expert's career entire career. This expert has done specific failure analysis on glass bottles, windows, windshields, dishes, cookware, and other glass vessels, and has expertise in glass strengthening and tempering. This expert is a seasoned expert witness, with depositions and court appearances.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #257476
This expert is a Full Professor and Chair of a Ceramic Engineering & Glass Engineering Science Programs. This expert is the recipient of numerous awards and has authored or co-authored over 160 publications. This expert holds seventeen patents. In addition to teaching and research, this expert is a world-recognized expert and consultant in ceramic powder processing (colloidal behavior and rheology), ceramic materials, selective batching for commercial glass production, ceramic forming and heat treatment processes, and ceramic manufacturing. This expert is able to perform all manner of testing in the university labs. This expert has served as an expert witness seven times: three required depositions and two required trial testimony.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #237491
This expert is a Full Professor and Chair of a Materials Science and Engineering Department. This expert has devoted most of this expert's professional life to the study of ceramic and glass materials and their characterization. This expert is familiar with many aspects of the abrasives industry and has been involved in perhaps a dozen or so legal matters of various types, and is experienced in both depositions and trial testimony. This expert is a Life Member of the American Ceramic Society and is well-published.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #124243
This expert holds a PhD in Chemistry, has many years of experience in polymers and has extensive design, testing and evaluation experience in the absorption and dissipation of forces - polymeric materials. This expert is the named inventor on numerous U.S. patents involving plastics that have been commercialized, including numerous household products and energy absorbing protective headgear. This expert’s areas of specialty include new product development, voluntary standards, statutes, labeling, custom and practice, technology and cost in relationship to the hazards, and dangers and risks involved in the use and application of consumer products. An active member of the ASTM for many years, this expert has been involved in the creation of the standards and testing involved with polymeric products. This expert is a former member of the Advisory Board -World Congress on Industrial, Technical, and High Performance Textiles and the Advisory Board - American Board of Engineering and Technology. This expert is a member of:
American Chemical Society
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Senior Member)
Society of Plastics Engineers
American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC)
American Board of Forensic Examiners
… to name just a few and has earned among others, ASTM qualification in:
C-8 Refractories;
C-14 Glass & Glass Products;
D-1 Paint, Varnish, Lacquer & Related Products;
D-9 Electrical Insulating Materials;
D-13 Textiles;
D-13.52 Flammability
D-14 Adhesives;
D-19 Water;
D-20 Plastics;
D-26 Halogenated Organic Solvents;
D-30 High Modulus Fibers and their Composites;
E-7 Non-destructive Testing;
E-15 Analysis & Testing of Industrial Chemicals;
E-17 Skid Resistance;
E-20 Temperature Measurement, Chemicals;
E-27 Hazard Potential of Chemicals;
E-30 Forensic Sciences;
E-28 Mechanical Testing;
F-15 Consumer Product Safety;
F-23 Protective Clothing;
F24-10 Test Methods
F24-20 Specifications and Terminology
F24-24 Design and Manufacture
F15 Consumer Products
This expert has extensive litigation experience (testified 9 times, deposed 20+), and has authored and presented extensively.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #263644
This expert is a Professor of Ceramic Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Department, and is educated and experienced in sintering of alumina and the role of chromium additions. This expert is well-published, and is also a regularly invited speaker at industry conferences.
This expert was selected as the Site Director, Refractory-Ceramics Satellite, for Glass Research. Current research interests include: hermochemistry and high temperature phase equilibria of condensed and non-condensed ceramic systems; corrosion/erosion of materials by molten liquids; research, development and testing of monolithic refractory ceramics; characterization of high temperature ceramics; and refractory/slag/metal interactions.
This expert holds PhD, MS and BS degrees in Ceramic Engineering. This expert is an active member of the America Ceramic Society.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #121063
This LED/LCD technologies expert holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Ceramic Engineering and has over 25 years of experience with devices utilizing advanced LCD-TFT glass substrates, including smartphones, smartwatches, and LCD/OLED displays.
This expert began a career as a materials scientist and held responsible positions with major corporate research, technology, and semiconductor organizations. This expert has worked on compositional analysis involving flagship smartphone AMOLED displays and is well-versed in glass manufacturing methods and compositions for a variety of applications.
This expert has process engineering experience involving sensor technology, including fusion bonding of bulk silicon/MEMS sensors to machined glass substrates. In recent years, this expert has investigated and reverse engineered commercial LCD/touchscreen products, with particular emphasis on display architecture, TFT fabrication, and glass substrates. These engagements resulted in over 10 LCD evidence-of-use claim charts.
This expert has served as an expert in several IPRs, written numerous expert reports and rebuttals, and been deposed several times in IPR proceedings and patent litigation. In addition to patent-related work, this expert serves as an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at a university.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and has spent over 20 years as a full-time patent licensing and litigation consultant and subject matter expert, including service as a testifying expert in multiple lawsuits.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #263502
This materials science expert holds a PhD and has over 40 years of experience in materials science and engineering, physics, mathematics, and computation. This expert holds a senior academic leadership role in materials science and engineering at a well-regarded university, with scientific work spanning many areas of materials science, including ceramics.
This expert has expertise in the coloring and hardening of ceramic materials, including the fundamental principles of materials science and solid-state physics. The subject of hardening was the topic of this expert's PhD thesis, and current research includes alloy surface engineering focused on solid-solution hardening of metals.
This expert has substantial expertise in microcharacterization of materials, including atomic-resolution imaging, diffractometry, and spectrometry using sophisticated methodology and major instrumentation. This expert's scientific work involves ceramic/ceramic, ceramic/metal, and ceramic/semiconductor interfaces, especially grain boundaries in ceramics. The materials studied include perovskite ceramics, oxides, carbides, nitrides, metallic glasses, and borosilicate glasses.
This expert has extensive expertise with advanced experimental methods used to analyze composition and microstructure, including SEM, TEM, XEDS, AES, XRD, AFM, and ToF-SIMS. This expert has directed a university research center housing sophisticated instrumentation for these methods and has an in-depth understanding of analytical methods used to evaluate experimental data on glass composition.
This expert draws on over 45 years of experience as a materials scientist and engineer. This expert's research group has advanced work across a variety of materials classes and phenomena, focusing on processing, composition, structure, and property relationships, with ceramic materials playing a significant role. This expert is knowledgeable regarding glass composition and its impact on microscopic structure and glass properties.
This expert is a named inventor on over 10 patents and has experience as an expert witness in patent infringement litigation involving materials science topics, including surface engineering of aluminum alloys and ceramic coatings on steel.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #279553
This glass technologies expert holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering and has more than 40 years of glass tempering expertise, with experience involving over 130 glass tempering systems around the world. This expert has used aspirated convection in horizontal furnaces for decades and has worked with blower-based convection furnaces from multiple manufacturers in the United States, as well as horizontal convection furnaces made in China.
As an independent consultant, this expert has assisted with litigation matters involving claims that glass was not properly tempered and a dispute regarding the production requirements of a bending and tempering furnace.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #279833
This materials science and engineering/ceramics expert is an academic professor and author or co-author of over 100 research articles published in international journals on glasses and ceramics. This expert is a former chairperson of a bioceramics division of a prominent ceramics society and currently serves as an associate editor for prominent peer-reviewed journals in ceramics and applied glass science.
This expert has received several awards for work on glass and non-crystalline solids. This expert has served as an expert witness on several occasions and is well-versed in writing reports and rebuttals.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #283245
This medical device design expert holds a PhD and has over 40 years of experience as a medical device product development engineer, manager, and director.
This expert has experience with syringe design and development, including disposable syringes and needles, microliter syringes with hand-fitted stainless-steel plungers and finely bored syringe barrels, common plastic-body syringes with elastomeric stoppers for medication injection, glass-upon-glass syringes, steel-upon-steel syringes, syringes without stoppers, and syringe pumps. The basic design of these devices has remained largely consistent over time, while interchangeable parts and the use of plastic contributed to the widespread adoption of disposable syringes and needles beginning in the mid-20th century.
This expert has provided technical support in patent and adverse medical event matters, with experience researching prior art and preparing invalidity reports.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #285361
This glass fracture analysis expert is a ceramic materials scientist with extensive experience in tribology and failure analysis and over 25 years of experience analyzing material and equipment failures. This expert applies expertise to forensic investigations involving product performance, personal injury, and intellectual property disputes concerning ceramic glass, metallic materials, and non-metallic materials. This expert has extensive experience in the processing of ceramic materials and identifying processing defects that can lead to component failures. Adept at the forensic science of fractography, this expert has performed fractographic investigations on products ranging from complex defense-related components to common consumer goods.
This expert is also a glass scientist with a BA degree in physics and a Master's Degree in glass science from a well-regarded ceramics institution. With over 25 years of experience conducting fractographic analysis of glass, this expert has also gained experience with the behavior of fractured automotive windshield glass using impact testing. Projectiles were shot at various windshields using an air cannon to impact the automotive windshields at various velocities. Each test was followed by an inspection of the fracture pieces at high magnification using a stereo microscope. The depth of penetration of the projectile, the fracture pattern, and the condition of the lamination within the windshield were evaluated.
This expert is a Material Scientist experienced in forensic and fractographic analysis of glass and ceramic materials and applies scientific principles of fractography to identify failure origins, mechanisms of glass fracture, and causes of failures in families of materials including glass and ceramics. This expert is experienced in analytical methods used for acceptance testing of glass against established standards, including procedures established by recognized standards and technology organizations, and is additionally experienced in glass manufacturing and quality control procedures including glass melting, annealing, and determination of properties of molten glass.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #285382
This glass fracture analysis expert performs scientific investigations and root cause analyses of failed components, structures, and systems, including assessing contributions to failure from design, manufacturing methods and materials processes, use conditions, maintenance, and application. This expert holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering from a well-regarded university and is a licensed P.E. with professional memberships in prominent glass-products and ceramic-science organizations.
This expert has over 15 years of experience as a litigation consultant and has participated in deposition and testimony processes, including matters involving products associated with potential class or recall issues based on design and manufacturing concerns. Graduate studies focused on laminated glass panels using tempered, heat-strengthened, and annealed glass to study differing properties. This expert has served on a prominent standards committee on glass products, including glass used in windows and containers.
This expert's forensic work has involved manufacturers and parties adverse to manufacturers of glass products and has spanned the life cycle of glass products, from manufacturing-site issues to issues arising during use. This expert has worked on matters involving spontaneous fracturing of glass products and other causes of fracture, including potential manufacturing or design issues for glass applications and use or maintenance issues after manufacturing.
This expert is familiar with automotive glass, including the application of frit to automotive glass and potential interactions between frit and glass. This expert can perform inspections and fractography, help determine fracture origins, and assess causation relative to fracture origin.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #285408
This materials scientist and glass fracture analysis expert is a materials engineer with specific expertise in process-structure-property relationships of glasses and ceramics. Employing a variety of advanced analytical materials-characterization techniques, this expert has developed a deep understanding of the composition, structure, and crystallization of glasses and glass-ceramics. This expert has also investigated natural silicate analogues for such glasses to understand their long-term alteration mechanisms and has worked on fractography and failure analysis of glasses and ceramics for several applications.
This expert has provided dispute-resolution support involving glass products, including fracture investigations to identify the root cause of cracking and subsequent injury through fractography, mechanical-property testing, strength-characteristics analysis, and failure recreation, as well as materials analyses such as defect analysis, chemical-composition testing, microstructural characterization, and durability evaluations. This expert has performed root-cause analysis investigations for windshield and sunroof failures in several litigation matters.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #291129
This automotive glass expert leads an automotive glass consultancy and developed an automotive glass technical training program. This expert has over 50 years of experience in the auto glass industry, beginning as an auto glass installer for a large regional auto glass company and later serving as the company's technical expert, training school facilitator, and developer.
This expert later founded an independent company that developed and conducted training programs for leading automotive and auto glass companies. This expert has served on the board of an auto glass safety council, chaired an automotive glass replacement safety standards committee, and served on an education committee.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Glass Expert SearchExpert Witness #297937
This glass and ceramics expert holds a PhD, is an academic professor, and has over 30 years of experience in materials and glass in environmental uses.
This expert has experience welding glass plates using pulsed lasers and evaluating strain and joint integrity. This expert also has extensive experience in glass processing and characterization, including work involving photomultiplier tube cracking under hydrostatic pressure for neutrino detection and strengthening glass using pulsed laser treatment.
This expert has consulted with private companies and research sponsors and has been approached for expert work, but has not testified yet.
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