When it comes to litigation, you want an expert that you can rely on for accurate and effective testimony. Our team brings decades of metallurgical and corrosion experience to help support your litigation efforts. We provide professional engineering (PE), expert witness, corrosion consulting, and failure analysis services to help with metallurgical issues of all kinds.
Metallurgical Engineer Expert Consulting
US Corrosion Services utilizes experts with deep experience in corrosion, failure analysis, materials fabrication, and metallurgy. Our experts can provide metallurgical litigation support, including testimony, technical reports and opinions, and consulting.
Corrosion Investigations:
Corrosion is one of the most common litigation issues, and sometimes it’s difficult to understand who is responsible. Our experts have decades of experience with corrosion, so we can help you determine responsibility and explain it to
Material Selection:
To produce a superior product, a specific component must be engineered for cost efficient manufacturing and must provide a long service life. Material selection and manufacturing process parameters are the keys. USC’s expert consultants often help is recommend materials, heat treatments, surface finishes and any other related metallurgical processes to arrive at the optimum component for its intended purpose. Some additional services we offer:
- Material or alloy selection based on cost, availability, and desired properties (corrosion resistance, wear resistance, high temperature creep resistance, high strength, fatigue resistance, etc.)
- Heat treatment recommendations are made to bring out desired properties.
- Protective coatings for special applications (corrosion, wear, high temp, etc.)
Litigation Support:
US Corrosion has the experience and expertise to help with litigation support and expert consulting on corrosion issues, metallurgical engineering, cause of failure, and welding problems for insurance claims and legal cases. Our metallurgical and corrosion engineers have provided expert witness services in numerous litigation cases and trials.