Forensic Mechanical & Materials Engineer

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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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 technical strengths center on physics-based forensic reconstruction, including digital-twin and simulation-driven analysis to reproduce event sequences, test counterfactuals, and isolate initiating failures. His work integrates nonlinear, transient, high-strain-rate, thermal, and fully coupled multiphysics Finite Element Analysis (FEA) with multiscale damage and micromechanics modeling to link micro-mechanism initiation to macro-level rupture, collapse, or injury. He also provides biomechanics and injury-causation analysis for blunt trauma, blast, impact, and other high-rate loading scenarios. Consulting services include rapid-response scene evaluation, evidence preservation and spoliation-safe protocols, destructive and nondestructive examinations, lab planning and oversight, simulation and reconstruction, and standards-based technical reporting. He supports counsel with early risk assessment, targeted discovery strategy, rebuttal of alternative causation theories, mediation support, and—when required—deposition and trial testimony. Dr. Wince holds a Ph.D. in Engineering with research focused on digital-twin systems, micro-continuum mechanics, multiphysics material modeling, and biomechanics. His research produced a unified multiscale-multiphysics constitutive framework for high-rate, damage-driven thermomechanical prediction across polymers, metals, composites, construction materials, geomaterials, and biological tissues, strengthening forensic interpretation of complex fracture, deformation, thermal exposure, and injury patterns. He regularly coordinates with insurers, adjusters, and forensic accounting teams on property-loss, equipment-damage, and injury-valuation matters, ensuring the engineering causation narrative integrates cleanly with claim strategy and economic analysis. Credentials include active U.S. Department of Defense Top Secret/SCI clearance, DAWIA Level III Systems Engineering, DAWIA Level II Program Management and Test & Evaluation, ASME GD&T, and NDT Level II. Attorneys rely on Dr. Wince for technically rigorous, admissible, and plainly explained opinions—whether to decide a case early or to prevail when testimony is required. Available nationwide.