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Mr. Struble specializes in automotive accident reconstruction, and he also has expertise in vehicle structural performance, restraint system analysis, and rollover initiation. Within the area of accident reconstruction, Mr. Struble is proficient in crush energy analysis in a wide variety of crash modes, from vehicle-to-vehicle side impacts to pole impacts to underride/override collisions. Mr. Struble has evaluated vehicle performance in real-world collisions with respect to the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. He is also certified to download and analyze air bag control modules using the CDR download system. Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Struble worked at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, where he worked on the development of the Rollover New Car Assessment Program. After leaving the NHTSA in 2003, Mr. Struble worked as a consultant with Struble-Welsh Engineering, Inc., providing accident reconstruction services in negligence and products liability litigation cases. Mr. Struble worked on a wide variety of cases that required subject and exemplar vehicle inspections, site inspections, analysis and reconstruction presentations, simulation, and trial exhibit and testimony preparation. He has worked for a variety of different clients that include manufacturers and Tier I suppliers. Through the course of his work at the NHTSA and in his consulting practice, Mr. Struble has gained experience in test design and analysis, from a component level to full-scale vehicle testing. Mr. Struble’s work has been published by SAE and ASME, in the areas of accident reconstruction and restraint system analysis. One of his papers, “Side Impact Structural Characterization from FMVSS 214D Test Data,” won SAE’s prestigious Arch T. Colwell Merit Award, which recognizes papers of outstanding technical merit and original contributions to mobility science. Another of his papers was selected for SAE’s Transactions, a repository of superior SAE technical publications.
Struble J. Micro-scale planar and two-dimensional modeling of two phase composites with imperfect bonding between matrix and inclusion. MS Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. Struble D, Welsh K & Struble J. Side impact structural characterization from FMVSS 214D test data. SAE paper 2001-01-0122, presented at the 2001 International Congress & Exposition, Detroit, MI, March 2001. Published in SAE SP 1596, Progress in Safety Test Methodology, 2001. Selected for inclusion in SAE Transactions: Journal of Passenger Cars – Mechanical Systems, 2001. Winner of the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award. Welsh K, Struble D, Struble J. Lateral structural deformation in frontal impacts. SAE paper 2006-01-1395, presented at the 2006 International Congress & Exposition, Detroit, MI, March 2006. Published in SAE SP 1999, Accident Reconstruction, 2006. Selected for inclusion in SAE 2006 Transactions: Journal of Passenger Cars – Mechanical Systems, 2006. Welsh K, Struble D, Struble J. Restraint system markings and occupant kinematics in crash tests with disabled seat belt restraint systems. ASME paper IMECE2007-42042, presented at the 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, WA, November, 2007. Published in Proceedings of the 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2007. Struble D, Welsh K, Struble J. Crush energy assessment in frontal underride/override crashes. SAE paper 2009-01-0105, presented at the 2009 International Congress & Exposition, Detroit, MI, April 2009. Published in SAE SP 2224, Accident Reconstruction, 2009.
Presentations
Struble J. NHTSA centrifuge testing. SAE-DC Regional Meeting, Greenbelt, MD, 2003.
- Senior Engineer, Struble-Welsh Engineering, 2003–2011
- Safety Standards Engineer, Crash Avoidance, NHTSA, 2002–2003
- Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000–2002
- Research Engineer, Struble-Welsh Engineering, 2000
- Development Engineering, IBM, 1998–1999
- Development Engineering, BMW of Germany, 1998
- Research Assistant, NASA Space Grant, University of Arizona, 1996–1997
- SAE International
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers—ASME
- Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine—AAAM
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- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), 2002
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2000
- Patent Number 6,988,020: Method and Apparatus to Move an Accessor within a Data Storage and Retrieval System, issued January 17, 2006 (with RC Inch, JE Bosley, and K Tyldesly).
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