Machinery Failure Expert Witnesses

Long Beach, California

Maritime, Legal - Machinery Claims, Seaworthiness, P & I claims, Oil Pollution, Marine Engineer, Personal injuries, Super Yachts, Lithium ion fires, Expert report, Audits, Hull damage, Law, Maritime Fires, Litigation support, Marine Casualty, Cruise Ships, Marine Surveyor, Hull Claims, Cargo, Machinery failure

Why is this the right expert for my maritime technical case? Andrew E. Madden, Esq. offers a rare combination of maritime legal, technical, engineering, surveying, and operational experience. He is a California attorney, marine surveyor, former UK-licensed Chief Engineer, and former Lloyd’s Register Senior Surveyor and Senior Maritime Auditor, with extensive seagoing experience aboard commercial vessels worldwide. Mr. Madden’s background bridges the gap between legal strategy and real-world vessel operations. His experience includes marine casualty investigations, hull and machinery claims, cargo and container damage matters, marine insurance disputes, vessel surveys, class and statutory issues, ISM/ISPS/MLC audits, propulsion and machinery issues, and technical dispute analysis. He also has specialist experience in the superyacht sector. Through The Law Office of Andrew E. Madden, P.C. — “Where Maritime Experience Informs Legal Strategy” — he provides focused maritime legal supp...

The Woodlands, Texas

Engineering, Failure Analysis - Failure Analysis, Structural Failure, FEA Modeling, Composite Failure, Impact Analysis, Materials Failure, Gas Explosion, Multiphysics, Metallurgy, Accident Reconstruction, Biomechanics, Thermal Failure, Product Liability, Machinery Failure, Forensic Engineering, Mechanical Failure, Heat Transfer, High-Rate Loading, Blast Mechanics

Dr. Jaton N. Wince is a Ph.D.-level forensic mechanical engineer, inventor, and founder/President of SCIENALYSIS, Inc. He specializes in pre-litigation technical consulting, failure mechanism identification, and engineering causation analysis for high-consequence incidents where liability turns on physics, standards, and disciplined discrimination among competing theories. He is routinely engaged early—before filing or early in discovery—to assess case viability, causation strength, and technical risk, and to determine whether a matter should proceed, settle, or be re-scoped. When appropriate, he also serves as a testifying expert. Primary forensic domains include gas and fuel explosions, fire-related mechanical and thermal failures, structural and component collapses, industrial and consumer product failures, heavy equipment and machinery incidents, transportation and occupational accidents, catastrophic personal-injury biomechanics, and aerospace/defense system events. His core...