SEAL Laboratories
Research - San Diego, California, United States
SEAL Laboratories Employees
SEAL Laboratories Details
Established in 1971, SEAL Laboratories began doing business as EAG Laboratories in 2012. SEAL Labs earned a reputation as the go-to resource for unearthing the root causes of product failures and providing expert witness testimony in product liability litigation. Our scientists and engineers have decades of experience evaluating metallurgical failures, providing litigation support and serving as expert witnesses in product liability law suits. Services include metallurgical consulting and laboratory testing, destructive physical analysis (DPA) of electronic components for high reliability and space applications, chemical and polymer analysis, and residual gas analysis (RGA) with modern state-of-the art instrumentation".Our experts utilize multiple techniques for metallurgical analysis to solve problems as:Fractures fracture and failure modes & originsFatigue and other slow crack growth mechanismsBrittle and ductile overload failuresStress corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement failuresCorrosion/oxidation problemsContamination problemsWear failuresHeat treatment problemsDesign/stress related failuresPlating problemsAdditionally, we have assisted with product design, material selection, product improvement, and quality assurance programs for metal components.Legal Consulting: Product Liability and Patent Infringement CasesFrom investigating defective aircraft landing gear to determining cause of airbag failures, our engineers and scientists have been at the forefront of providing scientific expertise, data interpretation and expert testimony for hundreds of legal cases, including:Product defect investigationsDetermination of initiating causes of failureProduct construction analysis and specificationsMaterials and contamination analysisFire investigationsManufacturing/quality control issuesOur scientific expert witness team from this location includes Arun Kumar, Ph.D, Dana Medlin, Ph.D, P.E., FASM, Sya Ensha, Ph.D., and Erik Richman, Ph.D.
