Jim spent 17 years with Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems where he was a materials engineer. He worked on projects like the MK-92 Weapons System, the Trident Submarine Navigation Systems, and NEXRAD. His responsibilities included metallic material selection, metallurgical failure analyses of structural members, electronic components, welds, solder joints, etc.
For the past ten years he’s been president of his own company, providing metallurgical consulting for a wide variety of commercial and military programs and companies.
Jim is an AWS Certified Welding inspector, and he’s a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials and the American Society for Metals.
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- Chair Failure - Experts Investigates Office Chair Failure
A firefighter sustained back injuries when the office chair he was sitting on failed, causing him to fall backwards onto the ground. Robson Forensic experts in product liability and metallurgy were retained to determine the causes of the incident.
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- Bicycle Failure - Experts Investigate Bicycle Component Failure
A bicycle rider was catastrophically injured when he crashed a composite-framed, road bicycle. After the crash, the front fork (with wheel) and the right crankarm (with pedal) were found detached from the bicycle. The roadway in the area of the crash was unremarkable and not consistent with causing the crash. Robson Forensic was retained to determine if the bicycle was defective in a manner that caused the crash.
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