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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.
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