Material Answers investigates material and process failures to determine what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent recurrence. We combine laboratory characterization, field evidence, and engineering analysis to deliver clear, defensible conclusions—useful to engineers, insurers, and legal teams.
Materials science links structure, properties, processing, and performance—explaining why materials behave as they do and how to make them work better. At Material Answers, we run end-to-end projects across the full materials lifecycle: characterization, modeling, design, validation, and scale-up. Our experience covers all major classes—metals & alloys, polymers & elastomers, ceramics & glasses, and semiconductors/thin films—as well as composites, laminates, and coatings.
Material Answers delivers practical engineering solutions to difficult, one-off, and first-of-a-kind problems. We design specialized equipment and develop novel processing operations using first principles—machine design, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer—backed by analysis and testing.
Material Answers provides independent, technically rigorous evaluations—and expert witness services—on intellectual property matters in materials science and engineering. We analyze how products and processes actually work, compare them to patent claims, and document findings in clear, defensible reports.
Our Expert Witness service provides independent, materials-science expertise for litigation and disputes. We investigate how products and processes actually work—linking microstructure, processing history, and performance—and translate the findings into clear, defensible opinions. Typical support includes infringement and validity analyses, claim mapping, reverse engineering and comparative testing, failure/root-cause evaluations, and technical input for damages. We follow relevant ASTM/ISO methods, maintain chain-of-custody, and deliver court-ready reports, declarations, and testimony for deposition, arbitration, and trial.
Our Accident Investigation service determines what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent it from happening again. We combine site inspections and evidence handling (with strict chain-of-custody) with laboratory characterization and engineering analysis to reconstruct events. Typical work includes root-cause determination; evaluation of materials, components, and process history; assessment of loading and environment (stress, temperature, chemical exposure, corrosion); and design and execution of accelerated/simulated tests to confirm the mechanism. We follow relevant ASTM/ISO methods and deliver decision-ready reports with findings, probability of causation, and practical corrective actions for design, material selection, and operations.
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