Expert Witness Services
O'Donnell Consulting provides root cause failure analysis and engineering expert witness services to legal, insurance, and industrial firms to determine the cause of accidents, structural failures, and fire/explosions.
Providing Expertise
We have over 30 years experience in engineering design, analysis, troubleshooting and providing expert witness testimony.
We engage our audience with powerful, effective visuals and animations. These results:
- Are based on accurate engineering models
- Help you understand the technical issues
- Enables judges and juries to easily understand technical results
- Providing testimony in State, Federal & International Courts
- Three recent cases in excess of $85 million
- We have been recognized in the American Lawyer Media Top 100 Verdicts of 2006 and 2007
- Industrial: facilities, pressure vessels, pipes, pumps, valves
- Transportation: braking & steering systems, wheels
- Marine: control equipment, steering systems, moorings
- Petrochemical: turbomachinery structures
- Consumer: appliances, sporting equipment, chairs
See our Portfolio to read about past cases.
 Boiler Tube Failure |  Conveyor Failure |  Cable Hot Short |
- chemical and mechanical analyses
- metallographic examination
- materials testing
Producing Results
What sets us apart is our ability to communicate results in a clear and effective manner. When we perform forensic engineering, we thoroughly investigate - from taking data at the scene, to analyzing drawings, material specifications, and supporting documentation. Our investigations range from simple engineering analysis, to more complex analysis involving Finite element analysis (FEA) which is used to evaluate materials and fabrication/ construction defects. These models produce accurate results (images or animations) that can be used in court to demonstrate how a structure has failed. (O'Donnell was one of the first engineering companies to use FEA in the Courtroom.) See Resume Summaries of our senior engineers.
Call today to discuss your legal issues.