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 and product failures.
Providing Expertise
We have over 25 years experience providing engineering expertise to legal teams, giving us the communication skills to -
- Help you easily understand the technical issues
- Provide your audience with easily understood results, models & animations
- 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
(For a comprehensive list - see components).
Our failure causation analyses often include metallurgical examinations and materials tests.- chemical and mechanical analyses
- metallographic examination
Producing Results
When we perform forensic engineering, we thoroughly investigate the accident - analyzing drawings, material specifications, and supporting documentation. Finite element analysis is often used to evaluate materials and fabrication/ construction defects. (O'Donnell was one of the first engineering companies to use Finite Element Analysis in the Courtroom.) We issue comprehensive reports, models and animations which are easily understood by judges and juries. Call today to discuss your legal issues.
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O'Donnell Consulting Engineers offers a range of engineering expertise. To read about our services, see Capabilities Summary.
<<Above: OCE has investigated: A burst pipe, a failed transmission
gear, and a failed section of a boiler tube>>