Affiliated Engineering Laboratories, Inc.

Provides multidisciplinary forensic investigations for legal and non-legal clients to determine the underlying causes of accidents, failures, and structural incidents.

• Automotive Failure Analysis

  Investigates vehicular components and mechanical systems to identify defects, failures, and operational issues.

• Fire Origin and Causation

  Analyzes fire patterns, electrical systems, and structural elements to determine where and how fires started.

• Explosion Origin and Causation

  Determines the source and mechanisms behind commercial, industrial, or residential explosions.

• Structural and Construction Analysis

  Assesses buildings and structures for design flaws, construction defects, and failure mechanisms.

• Surface Friction Analysis

  Measures slip resistance and evaluates walkway surfaces involved in slip, trip, and fall incidents.

• Vehicle Accident Reconstruction

  Reconstructs vehicular collisions utilizing physical documentation, vehicle dynamics, and site data.

• Machine Design Analysis

  Evaluates mechanical systems, industrial machinery, and product designs to identify defects or safety issues.

• Electrical Systems Failure Analysis

  Examines electrical equipment, distribution networks, and work practices involved in failures or accidents.

Combines laboratory instrumentation and engineering analysis to perform metallurgical assessments, characterizations, and failure analyses.

• Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis

  Utilizes high-magnification microscopy and elemental microanalysis to inspect fracture surfaces and analyze materials.

• Metallography and Optical Microscopy

  Employs light microscopy up to 2000x magnification to examine metal microstructures, grain boundaries, and plating.

• Mechanical and Hardness Testing

  Evaluates tensile, yield, compressive, impact, and fatigue strength alongside Rockwell, Brinell, and Vickers hardness testing.

• Corrosion Studies

  Conducts immersion, salt spray, and potentiometric testing to evaluate material degradation and environmental resistance.

• Chemical Analysis

  Identifies material composition using X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, FTIR spectroscopy, wet chemistry, and atomic absorption.

• Physical Testing

  Measures flashpoint, flammability, wear resistance, and drop resistance according to industry specifications.

• Contract Research

  Performs alloy development, cavitation studies, composite analyses, quality control testing, and heat treatment research.

• Soil Analysis

  Tests soil properties including pH, conductivity, resistivity, acidity, and overall material characterization.

Delivers professional litigation support, offering objective opinions and expert testimony based on engineering and laboratory findings.

Offers comprehensive design, implementation, and repair of PC-based computer systems and unified communication platforms.

• PC-Based System Design

  Designs tailored computer systems and hardware architectures to meet specific organizational requirements.

• Implementation and Repair

  Provides deployment, maintenance, and technical repair services for computer networks and workstations.

• Computer and Telephony Integration

  Integrates computer and telephone technologies into cohesive unified communications systems.