Fatigue Expert Witnesses

Material fatigue is a term utilized in the field of materials science and is used to describe the weakening of materials when they are exposed to recurring loading and unloading. Microscopic cracks form when loads above a specific limit. When cracks reach an alarming size they will quickly spread, which leads the structure to rupture. Our fatigue experts have worked as engineers, aerospace professionals, mechanics, designers, materials consultants, and more. These experts specialize in:

• Mechanical reliability
• Statistical fatigue
• Characterization of materials
• Applied probability
• Earthquake engineering
• Stress analysis
• Structural engineering
• Plated structures
• Pipeline buckling
• Damage analysis
• Vibration
• Dynamics and experimentation
• Composite materials

With hundreds of years of combined experience, our fatigue experts have successfully testified for both plaintiffs and defense in a variety of cases and are prolific international authors and lecturers. Their published works span topics that include material reliability, very high cycle fatigue, earthquake response, the collapse of structures, ropes chains and moorings, computational analysis, turbine blade vibration, computational modeling of aeroelasticity, fracture toughness, and damage mechanics.