Explosives Expert Witness Testimony

Explosives Expert Support

ExploConsult provides Explosive Testifying Expert support to attorneys and judges with insight on legal case involving incidents or accidents related to explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material. With most of my cases, this involves the process of reconstructing a single, unique past event that is no longer observable, and performing a deep-dive analysis to derive the facts.

Attorneys are extremely busy, often managing many cases simultaneously and require reliable insight into legal strategies and causation. Bob Morhard communicates clearly and quickly with attorneys to define Duty of Care and Standard of Care in cases involving explosives materials, and to evaluate circumstances and the law.

Bob Morhard uses forensic tools and procedures and clearly communicates with attorneys on incidents or accidents related to energetic materials such as explosive, propellant, pyrotechnic materials, devices, fireworks, ammunition, or ordnance. Bob Morhard provides reliable, cogent, and concise information that is understandable by the Courts. Bob Morhard has testified before the US Congress, in US Court, many US State Courts, and many foreign countries.

Explosives Materials - Duty of Care and Standard of Care

Defining the Duty of Care and Standard of Care elements for explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material, fireworks, ordnance, and devices requires subject matter expertise. Duty of Care and Standard of Care requirements for any explosive’s material vary, as what a reasonably careful, prudent person or organization would do in the same or similar circumstances with any explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics materials. Bob Morhard performs an in-depth examination of the facts, to provide a But-For assessment and an opinion on Predictability and Foreseeability and Causation described in objective, understandable, cogent and quantitively empirical terms.

​The initial assessment in any case involving explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material is to define Duty of Care and Standard of Care, and to evaluate the circumstances presented and the law. Duty of Care and Standard of Care are the requirements of what a reasonably careful, prudent person or organization would do in the same or similar circumstances with explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics materials.

Incidents, accidents, or criminal actions related to explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material have subtle but crucial clues that must be identified. This involves the process of reconstructing a single, unique past event that is no longer observable and examining all the facts that led to a But-For assessment and formulate an explosive’s expert opinion on Predictability and Foreseeability and Causation.

Forensic Tools and Procedures

ExploConsult explosives expert professional services include these forensic tools to assess and opine on incidents or accidents related to energetic materials such as explosive, propellant, pyrotechnic materials, devices, fireworks, ammunition, or ordnance:

• ​Analyzing the evidence and the scene
• Accident reconstruction
• Hazardous materials constituents in the substance or article
• Laws, statues, regulations, permits, guidance assessment
• Design, ignition, initiation, and related technology assessment
• Explosive’s materials physical and chemical analysis
• Hazardous materials audit UN Manual of Tests and Criteria
• Logistics audit US DOT and foreign codes, truck, rail, and ship
• Explosive’s article and inert exemplar testing
• Compliance audit and compendium US, State, and municipal law
• Compliance audit and compendium NATO, and foreign government law
• Compliance audit and compendium for US Department of Defense regulations
• Process safety management, quantitative risk assessment
• Hazardous material constituent factors, design factors, formulation assessment
• Blood spatter assessment
• Injury pathology assessment
• Structural and materials assessment
• Scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and X ray photoelectron spectroscopy
• Infrared spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy
• Assessing the explosives materials involved and the donor/receptor relationships
• Deflagration to detonation transition assessment
• Fragmentation zone and crater analysis
• Fragmentation signature analysis
• Fiber signature analysis
• Defining the chemical interactions of the explosive’s materials
• Defining the physical chemistry handling of the explosive’s materials
• Preparing maps and diagrams
• Detailing the process or handling procedures on balance with the actual events.
• Assessing the environmental conditions
• Assessing the human factors of all persons involved