Mechanical Failure Analysis and Forensic Engineering Expert Witness

This expert is a Ph.D., P.E. mechanical engineer with more than 40 years of failure analysis and forensic engineering experience, including a long tenure at a leading national failure-analysis consultancy. Their practice spans finite element analysis (FEA), fatigue and fracture mechanics, medical device design and failure (vascular closure devices, stents, and implants), composite materials and Nitinol shape memory alloys, heavy-truck crashworthiness and rollover, and fire and explosion causation.

An ASME Fellow and licensed Professional Engineer, this expert has been retained in more than 20 intellectual property cases and has testified at 7 trials, with more than 20 depositions across state and federal courts and the International Trade Commission, plus over 15 inter partes review declarations before the PTAB.

Attorneys retain this expert for product liability and failure analysis matters, mechanical patent infringement and IPR proceedings, medical device disputes, and vehicle crashworthiness litigation.