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Our multidisciplinary organization of scientists, physicians, engineers, and regulatory consultants performs in-depth investigations in more than 90 technical disciplines. We analyze failures and accidents to determine their causes and to understand how to prevent them. We evaluate complex human health and environmental issues to find cost-effective solutions.
Our integrated approach offers a multifaceted perspective that leads to insight, revelation, and innovative solutions that produce bottom-line results. By introducing a new way of thinking about an existing situation, we assist clients to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
   
   
Biomechanics
Exponent's biomechanics staff use engineering and biomedical science to solve complex problems at the intersection of biology and engineering. Our expertise is used to understand and evaluate the interaction between the human body as a biological system and the physical environment to explore the cause, nature, and severity of injuries. We also draw on our expertise in bioengineering, biomaterials, biotransport and medicine to address questions related to medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
Injury Analysis
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Medical Devices & Biomedical Engineering
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Buildings & Structures
The basic function of a building is to provide structurally sound and environmentally controlled spaces to house and protect occupants and contents. If this basic function is not achieved, some aspect of the building has likely failed to meet its intended purpose. Exponent's architects, engineers, and scientists have a broad range of expertise with failures in the built environment and provide clients with in-depth investigations of individual components, as well as evaluations of these components' interdependence with the entire building system.
Chemical Regulation & Food Safety
Exponent’s Center for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety specializes in timely, high-quality, creative, and practical solutions to problems that affect our clients' ability to conduct business globally. Our experienced staff includes both technical and regulatory consultants who are experienced in dealing with foods, food safety, and nutrition, and with pesticide and non-pesticide products, including conventional chemicals, biochemicals, agrichemicals, microbials, antimicrobials, consumer products, and products of biotechnology.
Chemical Regulation & Technical Support
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Food Safety, Nutrition & Regulatory Support
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Civil Engineering
Exponent provides unusually broad expertise in geotechnical engineering, geological engineering, engineering geology, geophysics, geomechanics, and groundwater hydrology to address a host of geo-failures, including landslides, foundation and retaining wall failures, oil-well distress, and floods, as well as earthwork construction claims. Our water resources professionals specialize in the application of proven hydrologic, hydraulic, hydrodynamic, and sediment transport research and science to provide scientifically sound and cost-effective solutions to our clients.
Geotechnical
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Water Resources
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Construction
Exponent services the construction industry by providing project advisory, risk analysis, strategic planning, dispute resolution, and financial damages services. Our multi-disciplined staff, which includes engineers, architects, construction managers, accountants, and technical specialists, provides these services to both the public and private sectors on all types of construction projects.
Construction Services
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Dispute Resolution Services
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Defense Technology Development
Exponent’s Technology Development practice helps our Department of Defense clients stay current with and benefit from rapidly evolving civilian technologies. Drawing on our multidisciplinary engineering, testing, and failure analysis and prevention expertise, we identify and leverage the best in COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) technologies to create integrated combat systems and modules cost-effectively, without sacrificing reliability. Our engineers and scientists work in the field alongside Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines to ensure we understand your problems and to rapidly deliver solutions.
Ecological & Biological Sciences
Exponent's ecological scientists, biologists, toxicologists, and natural resource analysts provide scientifically defensible solutions and strategic support on complex environmental issues related to contaminated land and water, industrial and other development, and sustainability and restoration of resources, and technologies and products. The practice is nationally and internationally recognized for its expertise in environmental risk and impact assessment, ecotoxicology, natural resource damage assessment (NRDA), and ecological restoration.
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Electrical & Semiconductors
Exponent's team of electrical engineers performs a wide array of investigations ranging from electric power systems to semiconductor devices. We operate laboratories for testing both heavy equipment and light electronic equipment. Computers and specialized software are used to analyze electric power systems, circuits, and other equipment configurations.
Energy
Exponent combines unparalleled technical expertise with the ability to respond rapidly and to focus this knowledge in extremely short time frames. We provide our clients with a team of engineering, construction, environmental, risk, and health specialists that is unique in the energy industry. We offer a range of services—from in-depth research and analysis to rapid-response evaluations, providing our clients with the critical information required for day-to-day or long-term strategic decisions.
Coal, Gas & Oil
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Electric Power
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Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
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Engineering Management Consulting
Exponent provides multi-disciplinary expertise and rapid response to assist clients with technical and management consulting services, often in extremely short time frames. Our consultants cover asset strategy and planning, project management, engineering, construction, maintenance, operations, environmental, risk, and health disciplines.
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Exponent's scientists and engineers provide proven, cost-effective, scientifically defensible, and realistic assessments and solutions to complex environmental issues. Our services include: environmental forensics, particulary advanced chemical fingerprinting; chemical transport and fate analyses in air, soil, surface water, sediments, and groundwater; technical support for regulatory compliance; real estate transactions and brownfields development; economic analyses; sustainability assessments; site remediation; product liability evaluations; and human health and ecological risk assessments. We also provide consulting and expert services for a variety of legal disputes such as source identification, cost apportionment, insurance coverage, and toxic tort actions.
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Epidemiology & Computational Biology
Exponent health scientists apply epidemiologic methods to examine and solve complex health issues in a variety of settings. Through the principles of epidemiology, we analyze the interaction of host, agent, and environment to reach conclusions about the causes and occurrence of disease in human populations.
Exposure Assessment
Exposure assessment is the science of estimating human exposure to chemical, physical, and biological agents, accounting for the frequency, magnitude, and duration of the exposure events. Exposure estimates can be compared to toxicity benchmarks or guidelines to assess potential risks to human health, and are used for many purposes, including in epidemiology, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance.
Human Factors
Exponent scientists evaluate human performance and safety in product and system use. Consultants study how the limitations and capabilities of people, including memory, perception, reaction time, judgment, physical size and dexterity, affect the way they use a product or participate in an activity.
Information Resources
The Information Resources team assists Exponent consultants in understanding the scientific puzzles they are working to solve, and extends this technical research expertise directly to our clients by providing a focused survey of peer-reviewed and authoritative technical literature indexed by leading commercial publishers, both in print and online.
We have a library of technical publications; materials not readily available in the collection are obtained via interlibrary loan (using national and international libraries as needed), specialized document providers, or direct contact with authors. Specific document-related research can be applied to those materials not easily identified because of cryptic bibliographic data or limited distribution.
Materials Science & Engineering
At Exponent, our in-depth knowledge of materials, combined with unparalleled breadth of collective expertise in virtually all areas of engineering and science, is used to understand how and why materials fail in medical, automotive, construction, recreational, and other applications.
Mechanical & Aeronautical
Exponent provides clients with a thorough comprehension of current or potential designs to determine vulnerabilities before failures occur, develop appropriate mitigation methods, and provide post-failure investigations. Consultants review the reliability of processes and products for a variety of industries, including transportation, heavy industry, energy, and consumer products.
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