Crashworthiness Expert Witnesses

Sunnyvale, California

Medical Devices, Intellectual Property - Mechanical Engineering, Equipment & Machinery, Medical Device, Nitinol, Biomedical, Patent, IP, Consumer Products, Failure Analysis, Fracture, Fatigue, Truck Rollover, Crashworthiness, Finite Element, FEA, Reliability, Cell Phone, IVC, Composite Material, Piping

T.Kim Parnell, PhD, PE is President of Parnell Engineering & Consulting. Dr.Parnell holds PhD and MSME degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, a BES from Georgia Tech, and is a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer (PE) in the State of California. Dr.Parnell is an ASME Fellow, an IEEE Life Senior Member, and a Member of NAFEMS, SAMPE, ASMI and SAE. Parnell is Past-Chair of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section (IEEE-SCV) (over 13,000 members) and Past-Chair/Board Member of the IEEE Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley (IEEE-CNSV). Vice-President of Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC-ca.org) Dr.Parnell is an experienced Expert Witness, has provided testimony in both trial and deposition, and has authored numerous expert reports, ITC and IPR declarations. He has worked extensively as an expert in medical devices, patents, product failure, product liability, and personal injury. Dr.Parnell has been retained in medical device litigation cases that ...

McLean, Virginia

Accident Reconstruction, Mechanical Engineering - Accident investigation and reconstruction, forensic engineering, personal injury, highway safety, structural analysis, Computer Simulation, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), airbag & seatbelt, guardrails, patent infringement, Intellectual Properties, slip trip & falls, Crashworthiness, fuel tank, pipelines analysis

Experts in our consulting firm (ART, LLC) have more than 30 years of superior expertise in the areas of Accident Investigation and reconstruction, highway safety, Forensic Engineering, Automotive/vehicular engineering, Computer Simulation, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Mechanical Engineering, Structural Analysis, Patent and Intellectual Properties. We also conducted extensive research on guardrails, airbag and seatbelt fatalities and injuries, slip, trip, and fall incidents, patent infringement, crashworthiness, failure analysis, and fuel tank and pipeline safety. ART experts are widely recognized as world leaders in advanced computer simulations of complicated structural crashes and impact-related problems. We conducted a wide variety of successful projects and accident reconstruction analyses for many law firms, private industry, engineering firms, and government agencies. Professional in utilizing state-of-the-art technology, including 3-D computer animation and the latest engi...