Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Materials Engineering, The Open University, United Kingdom, 2016
Professional Honors
  • ASME – Fatigue Design Assessment of Weldments, 2017
  • TWI Commendation Award, 2014
Professional Affiliations
  • BSI WEE/37: Committee Member
  • WEE/37/3 BS 7910 (Chair – Fatigue)
  • WEE/37/9 BS 7608 (Chair)
  • B/525/10, CB/203: Committee member & UK Expert
  • IIW Commission XIII: UK National Delegate

Matthew Doré, Ph.D., CEng, FWeldI, AMICE, is a structural welding expert at Exponent with over 25 years of experience in fatigue and fracture analysis. He specializes in failure investigations, expert witness testimony, and mechanical testing across the construction, oil and gas, renewables and defense sectors.

Dr. Doré has led numerous high-profile projects involving failure investigation, fatigue design assessment, and structural integrity consulting for global organizations and government agencies. His work encompasses experimental stress analysis, residual stress measurement, and fracture mechanics, with particular expertise in the fatigue of welded structures. He has served as a technical authority for complex engineering proposals, projects and overseen critical laboratories focused on material performance.

He has served clients in the energy (oil, gas, and hydrogen), infrastructure, and defense sectors, addressing challenges including catastrophic structural failure, sour corrosion behavior in pipelines, and fatigue crack growth acceleration. His consulting experience spans high-strength steel welded structures, additive manufacturing integrity, and the safety of repurposed gas pipelines for hydrogen transportation.

Dr. Doré's consulting approach integrates computational fatigue assessment, large-scale laboratory testing, and site-based field inspections to deliver rigorous, defensible conclusions. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellow of the Welding Institute (FWeldI). Additionally, he holds significant leadership roles in international standards committees, currently serving as the Chair for BS 7608 and BS 7910 (fatigue), UK expert on fatigue and fracture committees for bridges and structures. He also serves as the UK National Delegate for the IIW Commission XIII on fatigue.

Before joining Exponent, Dr. Doré served as a Technology Fellow and Section Manager at TWI Ltd, where he managed a team of 25 engineers and research students, and oversaw the development of the sections technology roadmap. He also served as the Centre Director and Professor at the Advanced Structural Integrity Innovation Centre.

Dr. Doré earned his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from The Open University and a BEng in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering from Anglia Ruskin University. He is an active contributor to the International Institute of Welding (IIW) and the British Standards Institution (BSI). He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles on topics such as additive manufacturing, ultrasonic peening, fatigue design and fracture mechanics, and regularly presents at international conferences like Fatigue Design and Materials & Structural Integrity.