Forensic Engineering, Intellectual Property, Failure Analysis of Plastics, Rubbers, Composites
ID: 727562
United Kingdom
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Expert has 30 years experience in investigating product failure and its consequences. It includes accident analysis following personal injury such as road traffic accidents, industrial accidents, and accidents in the home. He originally became involved in the subject by investigating the safety of mining lamps, and has extended his expertise to a wide variety of other topics. They include failure of medical devices and implants, consumer product failure, automotive failure and failure of pneumatic systems, as well as failure of industrial products such as storage tanks and piping systems. He is especially skilled in polymer analysis as exemplified by thermoplastics, elastomers and composites, adhesives and sealants. He has also acted as an expert witness in numerous patent disputes of mainly mechanical inventions, and has also reported on tradename, trade secrets and design rights, where he has reported on the stateExpertofExperttheExpertart, analysis of patent claims, their definition and scope.
He has recently investigated the failure of catheter connectors which led to brain damage to a premature baby as part of a team of experts in a High Court action. The action succeeded without a trail and led to the award of substantial damages. The connectors had been poorly designed and moulded, leading to premature cracking and bacterial infection through the cracks.He recently investigated a series of fires at Heathrow airport caused by ozone cracking of diesel fuel linesHe investigated a series of seal and OExpertring fractures on semiExpertconductor lines in Japan. The failures were caused by ozone cracking when compressors on the pneumatic lines were replaced.He investigated the failure of a plastic catheter used for an epidural anaesthetic in childbirth. It was probably caused by UV degradation during manufacture and the woman concerned wa sarded substantial copmpensation.He appeared as an expert witness for Flymo Ltd in a patent action brought by Black& Dccker. His testimony was accepted and the patentExpertinExpertsuit declared invalid on three different grounds.
