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Expert Witness #253537
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience that includes consumer product forensic engineering, written reports and a significant amount of deposition/courtroom testimony. During this expert's years of Forensic Engineering, this expert has investigated over a thousand losses many of which have involved refrigerators, refrigerator components, refrigeration equipment, and numerous refrigerator failures/failure modes. This expert has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, including manufacturers, sellers and service providers. This expert has also investigated losses and performed failure analysis for various companies/manufacturers directly.
This expert brings to the table many years of industry experience in concept development and testing through commercialization and field support. As Chief Engineer for a beverage company, this expert was responsible for the design, development, testing, manufacturing, failure analysis, commercialization and field support for a new line of cold beverages from visual to high volume, soft serve, real ice cream, and a vending machine as well as existing equipment. This expert is highly familiar with refrigerator/freezers with multiple compartment temperature control.
This expert has been awarded 23 US Patents with others pending.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #214975
This expert is the founder and CEO of a highly successful consultancy specializing in plastics. This expert has spent many years in the Plastics Industry as a leading authority on plastic and composite part failure. This expert worked for a plastics product manufacturer as a leading Principal Scientist. This expert is a world-renowned scientist and author as evidenced by many awards. This expert is a member of ASM International (a society of Material Scientists), the American Chemical Society Polymer Chemistry and Polymeric Materials Divisions, the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, the National Association of Subrogation Professionals, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the Failure Analysis Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers, the Institute of Packaging Professionals, and the Society of Automotive Engineers. This expert has provided expert services in over 150 litigations involving plastics and composites. This expert is one of the top plastic failure experts in the world having analyzed hundreds of plastic and composite parts including, pipes, food packages, bottles, tanks, latches, toys, medical devices, exercise equipment, automotive parts, pulleys, chairs, and stools. This expert has authored >100 scientific papers, >60 US Patents, a book, and several encyclopedia articles on chemicals and plastics.
CONSULTANT AND EXPERT WITNESS ON CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS
- Forensic analysis/testing of plastic and composite parts
- Manufacturing processes for plastic bottles including extrusion blow-molding, injection blow-molding, and stretch
- Blow-molding
- Root cause analysis of CPVC fire suppression system failures
- Exercise equipment failure
- Plastic piping products including ABS, PVC, CPVC, PEX, PP, PVDC, and HDPE
- Additives for plastics including antioxidants and UV stabilizers
- Design of plastic parts to meet the requirements of the application
- Fracture mechanics of plastic materials and composites
- Chemical resistance/degradation of plastics and elastomers
- Discoloration and loss of clarity of plastics
- Plastic part and package design and stress analysis
- Polymer blends and compounding
- Polyolefin based resins and applications
- Additives for improved adhesion in polymer blends and composites
- Chemicals and Plastics R&D
- Monomer stabilization and polymerization
- Molding and extrusion of plastics including foams and films
- UV, thermal, and environmental degradation of chemicals and plastics
- Plastic flammability and plastic flame retardant formulations
- Migration of chemicals and additives from plastics
- Chemicals and plastics for medical use
- Composite and nanocomposite materials including carbon fiber composites
- Permeability (vapors and odors) of plastics
- Plastics used in medical applications
- Abrasion resistance of plastics and elastomers
- Material Selection (choosing the right plastic for the application)
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #254280
This expert has been a drive systems engineer, specializing in gear technology, for many years and has been deeply involved in the development of gear technology and active in national and international standards writing. This expert has designed gearing for fixed wing aircraft and rotorcraft propulsion and actuation, and turbo-machinery. Failure analysis and problem solving for problematic gearing components is a large part of this expert's overall expertise in gearing systems. This expert has been involved in all aspects of gear technology including materials and metallurgy, heat treatment, manufacturing processing and inspection, lubrication, stress analysis, rotor-dynamics and testing. This expert has performed failure investigations on gearing in mass transit vehicles, commercial and military aircraft; military and commercial ship propulsion, bridge machinery, cranes and hoists; industrial and power generation machinery; missile systems; and space based gear systems. This expert's experience in the inspection of various types of drive systems is extensive. This expert's experience includes shop testing and inspection of parallel shaft and planetary speed reducers. Field-testing and life expectancy studies of gearing components are also part of this expert's extensive experience in gearing technology. This expert has capability and experience in developing gear quality specifications and procedures for drive system applications ranging from aerospace actuators and missile systems to mining equipment and heavy movable structures. This includes material requirements and conformance, gear geometry and component dimensional accuracy and system performance. Services include evaluation of testing and measurement procedures, and evaluation of test and measurement results. This expert has provided consulting and forensic engineering services to the legal profession on numerous occasions and has served as an expert witness in litigation with claims over 20 million dollars. This expert has provided deposition testimony.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #231361
This expert is a licensed professional engineer and expert witness who holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. This expert has many years of professional experience in mechanical engineering, consumer product design, research and development, forensic investigation and litigation support. Additionally, this expert holds over twenty patents.
Prior to focusing on work as a forensic mechanical engineer and serving as an expert witness, this expert led an accomplished engineering career designing and developing innovative mechanical components and high-pressure equipment and conducting failure analyses over a broad variety of situations, most of which led to patents. This included designing and developing high-volume machined metal and injection-molded plastic parts, low-pressure seals, springs and stampings as well as manufacturing processes for composites, plastics and adhesive bonding. Working in research and development for major corporations in the aeronautical, petroleum, fluid power and automotive industries, as well as serving for over a decade as a forensic expert witness, this expert draws on a comprehensive background of diverse engineering experience to assist clients with cases involving evaluations of consumer products and commercial, industrial and agricultural equipment for products liability issues and patent disputes, including significant deposition and courtroom testimony experience.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #250466
This expert is an old school veteran of the Oil and Gas industry with many years' experience. This expert directed a team of research and development professionals to perfect a drilling measurement device. This expert holds two drilling-related patents and has experience as an expert witness, writing reports and testifying. This expert has extensive knowledge of rigs, drilling, engineering, oil spills, and failure analysis. This expert's expertise stretches across a wide range of equipment in nearly every application and in nearly every drilling environment.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #249424
This expert brings to the table many years of experience with Commercial and Industrial HVAC Systems, Commercial and Industrial Electrical Equipment and Systems, Power Systems, HVAC Controls, Refrigeration, Process Cooling, Temporary Power, and Chilled Water. This includes Operations and Maintenance, Facility Management, Preventive Maintenance, and Non-destructive diagnostics (Eddy Current Analysis, Thermographic Imaging, Radiography, Real-time radiography, Vibration Analysis, Oil Trend Analysis, Laser Alignment, Frequency and Harmonics Analysis, and Voltage and Current Analysis). This expert has extensive experience with Data Centers. This expert performed HVAC, Controls, Electrical, and Fire & Security systems service for data centers all over the world including several data centers for a bank. As Principal for an industrial building systems and forensic engineering consultancy, this expert understands how building systems age and how to keep them operating safely, effectively, and efficiently 20 or 30 years after they are built. This expert provides Forensic Engineering, Failure Analysis, and Expert Witness services to large Commercial and Industrial Property owners, Insurance Carriers, and Attorneys.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #261696
This expert is an Associate and scientific consultant, providing opinions and expert witness services on matters involving medical devices, medical equipment, and medical procedures. This expert is a biomedical engineer with many years of experience in academia and the medical device industry. This expert obtained an Aerospace Engineering degree followed by Engineering Mechanics Master of Science degree as well as a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, specializing in biomechanics. This expert has been involved in the research and design of implantable medical products and surgical instruments and tools (extensively utilized computational methods for failure analysis and drafting applications such as SolidWorks), the management of pre-clinical studies, and worked along numerous surgeons conducting experimental surgeries for research and product development. This expert serves on The International Technical Committee in The Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices field.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #218103
This expert holds a PhD and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer. This expert is an ASME Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member. This expert is also a member of ASM International (the Materials Information Society), the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (IEEE-VTS). This expert has unique multi-disciplinary experience in devices with electronic, mechanical, and thermal issues.
This expert has direct experience with investigations involving various aspects of airbag technology. This experience includes airbag inflators and the propellant that produces the gas to inflate the airbag. It also includes finite element simulations for products like airbags to investigate issues such as folding, venting, inflation dynamics and occupant interaction. This expert is also familiar with interaction with occupants (also out-of-position and small occupants) and associated issues. At its heart, an airbag is a very thin fabric membrane, folded, rapidly inflated, has special venting, etc. Thin shells and membranes for many different applications are strong areas for this expert.
This expert has testified in both trial and deposition for patent cases and other types of litigation. This expert has authored numerous expert reports, filed 8 IPR Declarations, multiple patent depositions and testified in 3 product trials and a patent trial. This expert has many years of consulting and expert witness experience including patents, design, regulatory, and failure/reliability issues of a variety of vehicular and other products covering a wide range of equipment and systems.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #238528
This mechanical engineering expert is a licensed Professional Engineer and board-certified Diplomat Forensic Engineer (DFE) who provides forensic engineering investigations and analyses for legal and insurance clients evaluating claims and causes of action involving personal injury or death.
This expert has experience with product defect and failure analysis investigations, including accidents involving strength training exercise equipment, and is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #277656
This mechanical and metallurgical engineering expert holds a PE and provides forensic and consulting engineering services using a combination of mechanical and metallurgical engineering experience, including plastics, along with related education. This expert is a registered professional engineer in Texas and more than 25 other states, with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing in the metals processing industries, over 30 years performing failure analyses, and over 25 years investigating claims. Assignments have involved mechanical equipment, appliances, oil and gas production and transmission equipment, plumbing, HVAC, heavy equipment, machine tools, cranes and wire cables, metal roofs, manufacturing and thermal processes, among many others.
Over the course of over 15 years, this expert has investigated a number of oilfield assignments, including pipelines, separators, heat treaters, workover rigs, drilling rigs, and associated equipment. This expert has worked with gas compression equipment at well sites and midstream locations, including diesel-driven and turbine-driven equipment, and with a variety of valves used in high-pressure applications, including those used with natural gas.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has testified in a wide variety of matters, including personal injury and property damage, in both state and federal court, and has testified by deposition more than 150 times and in court more than 15 times. Expert opinions and testimony have never been excluded.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #280330
This biomechanical engineering expert is a Professional Engineer (PE) who has investigated incidents involving amusement park rides, including roller coasters, automobiles, railroad equipment, commercial aircraft interiors, watercraft, walking surfaces, industrial, railroad, and hospital equipment, and product failures.
As a licensed biomedical and mechanical engineer, this expert can analyze the mechanics of an accident or product failure and determine its relationship to claimed injuries. This expert has extensive expert witness experience and has testified over 70 times in deposition and trial.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #282671
This industrial equipment expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. credential and has extensive experience in the design and analysis of industrial equipment, including propane-fueled systems. This expert has over 35 years of experience in failure analysis involving explosions, fires, fluid flow, and the application of engineering fundamentals to complex systems. The experience includes investigations involving propane fires and explosions, propane vaporization systems for boilers, liquid propane migration, furnaces, stoves, water heaters, pressure regulators, and sensors.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #282993
This HVAC and failure analysis expert is a PE who practiced as a Professional Engineer for over 20 years before becoming a forensic engineer, with experience designing and analyzing heating and cooling equipment for a major HVAC equipment manufacturer, performing HVAC and mechanical design and consulting, and conducting licensed professional work involving the design, installation, and maintenance of mechanical, electrical HVAC, and industrial equipment.
This expert has conducted engineering failure analysis involving HVAC building systems and holds Professional Engineer licenses in multiple states, as well as National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) licensure in Mechanical and HVAC.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #283885
This machine safety and machine guarding expert is a professional engineer (P.E.), holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics and Materials Science, and formerly served as an Adjunct and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at two universities.
This expert has acted as a failure analysis litigation consultant for over 25 years, with direct experience in the safety and failure of machine guards on a variety of industrial equipment.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #283967
This machine safety and machine guarding expert is a senior-level consultant and mechanical engineer who investigates incidents involving personal injuries, fires, and explosions.
This expert provides technical analysis, litigation support, and expert testimony in legal, insurance, and industrial contexts. Personal injury and product liability work has included evaluation of material handling equipment, furniture failures, and other products and machines.
This expert specializes in product failure analysis, load and stress testing, and design analysis of mechanical systems. This expert has investigated equipment and component failures and has experience in the design and fabrication of mechanical components.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #286984
This plumbing systems and HVAC/mechanical systems expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer and United States Patent Agent whose work is performed in support of litigation, intellectual property disputes, product recalls, insurance investigations, and industrial problem solving. This expert has critiqued product infringement issues within the scope of patent protection and has investigated, analyzed, and reconstructed accidents involving vehicles, machines, mechanical systems, and industrial equipment.
This expert is a member of several professional organizations, including prominent mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, testing standards, accident reconstruction, and heating, refrigeration, and air-conditioning engineering associations.
HVAC and plumbing systems experience includes failure analysis of commercial and residential climate control systems, boilers, chillers, humidifiers, commercial cooling towers, radiators, underground piping, frozen pipes, valves, meters, and sprinklers. Intellectual property experience includes reviewing patents and subject products, analyzing the design or performance of products within the scope of associated claims, and creating visual aids to demonstrate conclusions. Experience also includes patent drafting and prior art searches. Product examples include home goods, agricultural equipment, industrial equipment, and toys. Mechanical systems experience includes completing analysis on the design, installation, maintenance, and failure of systems in multiple application areas, including transportation, heavy industry, food industry, exercise equipment, medical equipment, agricultural equipment, home appliances, and office equipment. The analysis is performed with the aid of product research, standards research, product testing, and computational modeling. Examples of transportation include heavy and light vehicles, car haulers, motorcycles, motorized carts, steering systems, brake systems, fifth wheels, axles, drivelines, suspensions, restraint systems, lift gates, combustion motors, superchargers, and turbochargers. Examples of heavy industry include forklift trucks, street sweepers, electric and combustion motors, generators, compressors, industrial pumps, industrial fans, conveyors, crushers, shaker screens, spindles, grinders, industrial peelers, chippers, gearboxes, hydraulic systems, dust collectors, ladders, automated doors and gates, heavy gears, roller bearings, slewing rings, seals, machine guarding, mechanical and powered tools, machining centers, industrial racks, industrial chains, roustabouts, man lifts, elevators, cold forming equipment, forging equipment, safety devices, and safety clothing. Examples of the food industry include can seamers, industrial water purifiers, mixers, and processing equipment. Examples of exercise equipment include stability balls and weightlifting equipment.
Start Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #287485
This mechanical engineering design/test expert has over 35 years of experience working on hundreds of matters requiring comprehensive design analysis and testing using advanced analytical methods, applying broad-based mechanical engineering experience to analyze components, investigate failures of mechanical and process piping systems, and develop condition monitoring programs to enhance safety, integrity, and reliability. This expert has extensive hands-on experience with process hardware and is familiar with the application of valves, pumps, compressors, turbines, steam boilers, heat exchangers, tanks, filters, flanges, gasketed joints, and instrumentation and controls systems. Assessments have included product liability, product recall, construction delay, intellectual property claims, technology assessment, and business process improvements.
This expert has extensive experience in mechanical engineering design, analysis, and testing of flow equipment and systems used in a wide range of industrial and residential applications. While much of this work has involved preventing and analyzing failures associated with equipment and systems, this expert has also worked on intellectual property matters related to claim construction, infringement, validity, false advertising, and IPR issues involving flow equipment used in the oil and gas industry, as well as a matter involving a consumer appliance. Work has included Failure Modes and Effects analyses and other design-related risk assessments involving gas valves in transmission and distribution piping, burner inspections in combustion chambers and gas turbines, and failure analyses of gas dryers, water heaters, service head adapters, and associated valves and piping used in residential installations.
This expert is a Certified Functional Safety Expert (CFSE) for safety lifecycle per IEC 61511 and has facilitated numerous process hazard analyses (PHA), Hazard Identification (HAZID), Hazard and Operability (HAZOP), Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), failure-modes-and-system-effects (FMEA), and Pre-Start up Safety Review (PSSR) evaluations for FPSOs, LNG plants, and gas transmission and distribution systems. This expert also serves as a member of a prominent engineering codes and standards verification and validation subcommittee on computer modeling in energy systems and has held leadership roles within that group.
Start Equipment Failure 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 Equipment Failure Expert SearchExpert Witness #296760
This failure investigation, fluid power, and hydraulics expert is a senior executive and co-founder of a specialized consultancy in lubricant development, lubrication processes, power fluids, and failure analysis. This expert has extensive practical experience in lubrication, oil analysis, tribology, and machinery failure investigations. Over the past several decades, this expert has presented hundreds of courses on these subjects and has published over 200 technical articles, papers, and publications.
This expert has served as a U.S. delegate to an ISO tribology and oil analysis working group and has been awarded numerous patents. This expert has also held director and board-member roles with an international machinery lubrication organization.
This expert has worked as an instructor, book author, system designer, analyst, expert witness, consultant, and failure investigator for much of this expert's career in areas related to fluid power and hydraulics. This expert has designed and manufactured hydraulic test stands and served as a principal investigator for hydraulics-related work involving aerospace, defense, heavy equipment, and industrial applications.
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