Expert Witness Categories

Accident Reconstruction

• Highway crash investigation and reconstruction.
• Truck and automotive post-accident inspections, component failure analyses.
• Automotive and truck fire investigations.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Acoustics

• Consultants in acoustics, vibration monitoring, vibration control, mechanical noise, maintenance and design factors analyses based upon noise and vibration signature analyses.

Adhesives

• Analysis of adhesives, sealants and laminated structures.

Aviation

• Aircraft windshield failure analyses acknowledged throughout the aviation insurance industry.
• Aircraft accident investigations, component failure analyses including metallurgy and operational factors.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Building Code - Defects

• Professional engineers and experts for code violations, materiel failures, design deficiencies.
• Fire investigations, electrical and plumbing casualties.

Cause and Origin

• Determination of cause and origin of structural failures, fires, severe weather damage, vehicular, aircraft and other accidents.
• Trident has a broad range of professional experts on hand to pursue investigations through accident reconstruction and a variety of engineering disciplines to determine root cause.

Civil - Structural Engineering

• Determination of cause and origin of structural failures, including projects under construction, rail and highway bridges, roof collapses, soil mechanics, drainage, water penetration problems, fires and severe weather damage.

Construction

• Determination of cause and origin of structural failures, including projects under construction, concrete form and earth collapses, roof collapses, soil mechanics, drainage, plumbing and electrical services casualties during construction, water penetration problems, fires, and severe weather events.
• Construction accident reconstruction.

Electrical Accidents

• Expert in electrical accident investigations from ground faults on construction sites, factory, home and vehicle electrical fires, through coal, gas, oil-fired and nuclear power plants.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Engineering

• Determination of cause and origin of engineering problems, structural failures, fires, severe weather damage, vehicular, aircraft, and other accidents.
• Trident has a broad range of professional engineers on hand to pursue investigations through a variety of engineering disciplines to determine root cause of failures.

Engineering - Materials

• Investigations of failures involving ferrous and nonferrous metals, plastics, glass, and composite materials.
• Recognized design criteria and safety factors analyses.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Engineering - Mechanical

• Analyses of crane collapses, heavy equipment accidents, industrial and chemical equipment accidents and failures.
• Truck and automotive safety inspections, component failure analyses. Automotive and truck fire and mechanical failure investigations.

Engineering - Safety

• OSHA compliance, safety guarding of machinery, power tools, industrial equipment, construction sites.
• Analyses of fires, explosions, crane collapses, heavy equipment accidents.
• Truck and automotive safety inspections component failure analyses.

Failure Analysis

• Analyses of failures leading to fires, explosions, crane collapses, heavy equipment accidents, industrial and chemical equipment accidents and failures.
• Automotive and truck fire and mechanical failure investigations.

Failures - Building Structural

• Determination of origin and cause of structural failures, including projects under construction, marine and waterfront construction, rail and highway bridges, roof collapses, soil mechanics, drainage, water penetration problems, fires and severe weather damage.
• Collapses and failures of balconies, grandstands and temporary seating systems.

Fires - Investigations

• Home, industrial, transportation, electrical, storage facility fires.
• Experienced arson investigators, expert testimony, member NFPA.
• Automotive and truck fires a specialty.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Fires & Explosions

• Automotive and truck fire and mechanical failure investigations.
• Fires and explosions involving flour and grain storage, coal dust, propane, LNG and other combustibles.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Foundations

• Soils and foundations investigations, compaction inspection, materials testing, field and laboratory assessments, site assessments.
• Analyses of subsurface conditions, foundation design and construction.

Geotechnical Investigations

• Analyses of earth and earth-bearing structures failures, slope stability, bulkhead failures, etc.

Litigation - Preparation, Support

• Litigation preparation and support based upon comprehensive, objective engineering investigations of the technical problems at issue.
• Failure analyses, accident reconstruction, computer simulation, and documentation support.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Marine

• Professional engineering investigations of ships, pleasure craft, ship's machinery, shipboard and on-shore cargo handling equipment, electrical and mechanical systems, diesel, electric and steam propulsion systems.

Materials Engineering

• Investigations of failures involving ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics, glass, and composite materials.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Mechanical Engineering

• Engineering analyses of machinery to determine the root cause of failure.
• Redesign to show how damage, injury or failure can be avoided.
• Occupational safety, heavy equipment accident analyses, OSHA and on-site investigations.
• Vibration analyses, bearing failures and metallurgy.

Mechanical Failures

• Analyses of fires, explosions, crane collapses, heavy equipment accidents, industrial and chemical equipment accidents and failures.
• Truck and automotive safety, and mechanical inspections, accident reconstruction, component failure analyses.

Metallurgical Engineering

• Analysis of failures in ferrous and non-ferrous metals, including truck, automotive, ship, pleasure craft, aircraft components and construction equipment.
• Optical and SEM microscopy and photography.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.

Noise Reduction

• Noise and vibration reduction, including machinery vibration and noise analysis supporting redesign, correction and maintenance actions.
• Analysis of bearing vibration data, machine mounting and system vibration patterns.

Product Liability

• OSHA compliance, safety guarding of machinery, power tools, industrial equipment, construction sites and equipment.
• Analyses of fires, explosions, crane collapses, heavy equipment accidents, industrial and chemical equipment accidents and failures.
• Failures of balconies, grandstands. Truck/automotive safety inspections, component failure analyses.

Slip, Trip and Fall

• Slips, falls and injuries involving flooring surfaces, stair and railing designs and maintenance including surface coatings and maintenance.
• Interpretation of warnings and regulations.

Structural Engineering

• Determination of cause and origin of structural failures, including projects under construction, rail and highway bridges, roof collapses, wall and sheathing failures, soil mechanics, drainage, water penetration problems, fires and severe weather damage.
• Comprehensive, objective, understandable reports, including conclusions, consultation, support and testimony.