Engineering Standards Buckling Under Americans Ever Increasing Weight Gain

Standards are commonly used in engineering design. Some standards are legal requirements while others are consensus or voluntary standards. There are a number of organizations that provide standards including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),...

Expert Opinion: Just Because It Can Be Done Without Injury Does Not Mean It Is Safe

Engineering

As a mechanical engineer who works in equipment design safety, I sometimes get involved in lawsuits where injuries occur while equipment is being used. Usually in the roll of an expert witness. One question that I am often asked in one form or another during...

Expert Opinion: Improper Forklift Operation Kills Delivery Driver

Forklift Expert Witness

Forklift Expert from Alpine Engineering and Design offered expert opinions in a lawsuit around the events and equipment involved in the unnecessary death of a delivery driver. The case settlement was confidential, but we have been informed that it was favorable to...

Expert Opinion: No, Ma’am! The Swing Set was NOT Vandalized

Engineering

Recently, there was a big hullabaloo in my neighborhood regarding the swings in the park maintained by our HOA. Someone posted a picture on our neighborhood Facebook page showing two of the swings hanging by only one chain. As you might imagine, the neighborhood...

Close Enough to Kiss – Estimations in Mechanical Engineering Analysis

Mechanical Engineering Expert Witness

While going to college I had a professor who liked to reference the Zeno paradox. “That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.” He would make this point with an analogy. An engineer and a mathematician are in a bar. ...

Engineering Standards Buckling Under Americans Ever Increasing Weight Gain

Expert Opinion: Just Because It Can Be Done Without Injury Does Not Mean It Is Safe

Expert Opinion: Improper Forklift Operation Kills Delivery Driver

Expert Opinion: No, Ma’am! The Swing Set was NOT Vandalized

Close Enough to Kiss – Estimations in Mechanical Engineering Analysis

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