Service Areas
Mechanical Engineering - Design, Stress Analysis, Complex Systems
Materials Engineering - Microstructure, Materials Selection, Thermal Degradation, Microstructure, Fracture Surface Morphology, Corrosion
Manufacturing Engineering - Process Design and Optimization, Design of Experiments, Applied Statistics
Oil & Gas Inspection and Failure Analysis
Services
Multidisciplinary Failure Analysis and Root Cause Determination
Document Reviews
On-site inspections
Application of the Safety Hierarchy
Job Safey Analysis (JSA) Review
Cause and Effect Analysis and Articulation
Commercial Litigation Support
Workplace Injuries
Forensic Report Writing
Planning Discovery and Interrogatory Questions
Teaching - making complex technical issues understandable to lay people through practical examples including physical demonstratives and analogies that connect to commonly understood phenomena that are similar to the technical issues in the case.
Recent Activities
Workplace bungee cord injury
Failure analysis of a structural medical device
Failure analysis of a down-hole drill bit failure in commercial litigation.
Tipping and mechanical failure analysis of an ATV/UTV (“golf cart”)
Physical slip and fall that occurred while participating in a virtual reality system
Oil field injury due to energy release from a decommissioned system
Municipal lighting system failure
Playground pinch point injury of a child
Occupied antenna tower collapse and technician fall from height in an oil & gas site
Commercial door and laceration
Hydraulic shoring system failure and personnel entrapment
Automotive consumer pump explosion and facial injury
Batting cage and pitching machine youth injury
Dental tool fracture and palate impalement
Oil and gas fatigue fracture