Mr. Brown has 8 years of technical experience in designing and testing suspension and brake systems for passenger cars, light trucks, and off-road recreational vehicles. His areas of research include: automotive and light truck braking systems, occupant restraint systems, event data recorders, and he has developed unique measuring techniques to aid accident reconstruction. Mr. Brown typically evaluates complex electrical and mechanical issues and simplifies his findings for ease of understanding by a non-technical audience.
Mr. Brown developed, evaluated, and integrated into manufacturing several automotive suspension components for a major automotive supplier. He is knowledgeable of American, Canadian, Japanese and European brake test methods and regulations. His research includes developing automotive braking standards (SAE J2624 and others) and in writing software to distill large amounts of raw data down to easy to understand reports.
Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Brown was a Site Manager of Link-West, Inc., an automotive testing organization and a Development Engineer at Arvin Ride Control Products.
Brown J, Raasch C, Davee D. Comparison of restraint system marks with proper and improper belt usage. SAE 2009-01-1243, 2009.
Brown J, Hansen D, Grimm M. Relationship between anti-lock tire mark length and speed change. SAE 2007-01-0723, 2007.
Davee D, Raasch C, Brown J. Case study of clothing fabric transfer to seat belt webbing under accidental forces. SAE 2006-01-09-04, 2006.
Newberry W, Lai W, Carhart M, Richards D, Brown J, Raasch C. Modeling the effects of seat belt pretensioners on occupant kinematics during rollover. SAE 2006-01-0246 and SAE 2006 Transactions Journal of Passenger Cars, 2006.