Engineering and Mechanical Failure Expert Witness Work
Sometimes the failure of expensive and complex machinery, plant or other assets can result in litigation. This is especially true where significant costs, injury or loss of life are involved. Should you find yourself involved in such litigation, it’s vital that you are able to call upon qualified, experienced experts to provide an objective, impartial opinion regarding the failure in question.
Neale Consulting Engineers is able to act as an expert witness in all engineering and mechanical failure matters, both in the UK and overseas. We have given evidence in court cases, arbitrations, and mediations on many occasions.
Our specialist expertise was forged in tribology and machinery design, but now our investigations and reporting include other engineering aspects, such as metallurgy, vibration, metal fatigue, maintenance etc. These are all areas in which we, as mechanical engineers, have familiarity and knowledge. Although we are typically called upon to support cases involving machinery failures or deficiencies, we have can also give evidence in patent disputes involving machinery, personal injury and accidents.
The majority of our expert witness assignments do not proceed to a hearing but are settled, often after the exchange of expert reports. We encourage clients to engage us early in the dispute to provide an initial technical opinion, which can assist in resolving the case.
Neale Consulting Engineers’ expert witness work in action
Since our inception in the 1960s Neale Consulting Engineers has been engaged in a diverse and varied range of expert witness assignments. That’s due to the fact that if a case involves machinery, large or small, we will be able to assist.
Examples of our expert witness assignments include:
- Building hoist fatal accident.
- Ship main engine crankcase explosion.
- Fairground machinery accidents.
- Disputed performance of a scrap metal processing plant.
- Aircraft crash investigations.
- Patent dispute on a cosmetic hair removal device.
- Destruction by fire of an industrial shredder machine.
- Metal particle found in a packaged food product.
- Disputed repair costs on a large industrial gearbox.
- Reliability and safety of refuse lorries.
- Failures of conveyor drive gearboxes.
- Failures of ship propeller shaft bearings.
Find out more about our work by viewing our case studies in “sectors”.
Multidisciplinary, global expertise
In early 2023, Neale Consulting Engineers became part of the Brookes Bell group of companies.
The result? We have access to a broad range of talent that includes metallurgists, materials scientists, FEM / CFD specialists, engineers, NDT specialists and paint and coatings specialists. As a result, we are able to call upon an incredible range of talent to provide further depth and detail to our work as tribologists.
Furthermore, we now have a more comprehensive ability to work on an international basis. That’s thanks to Brookes Bell’s network of global operations in strategically important energy, maritime, and manufacturing hubs in locations as varied as London, Houston, Singapore, New York and more.
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‘The duty of an expert witness is to help the court to achieve the overriding objective by giving opinion which is objective and unbiased, in relation to matters within their expertise’.