Polymer Science Consulting Services

Unparalleled expertise for polymers and composite materials

Whether you face challenges with product design, manufacturing, or application — Exponent provides guidance and scientific insights for product testing, failure analysis, laboratory research, sustainability, and expert testimony in legal disputes for products containing plastics, rubbers, coatings, adhesives, sealants, and composite materials reinforced with glass, minerals, carbon, or other high-strength fillers.

Multidisciplinary expertise for your toughest polymer and composite materials challenges.

Polymers and composite materials are used in a wide range of applications in every industry, and stakeholders at every stage of the product lifecycle benefit from the oversight and consultation of a team of experts who understand the complexities and challenges of polymer sciences and related disciplines.

Exponent supports clients with a breadth of services spanning product liability, intellectual property, failure analysis, quality analysis, product development, recall support, evaluation of materials, life prediction and fitness for service evaluations, and sustainability.

Capabilities

Our polymers and material scientists provide support for your innovative use and development of new polymers and materials, including concepting, design, production, scale-up, and manufacturing. We take a multidisciplinary approach, considering industry requirements, real-life applications, and lessons from past failures to prevent future ones and support the development of polymer coatings, synthesis, compounding, and manufacturing.
Exponent engineers and scientists analyze the effects of fatigue, creep, wear, and corrosion on the structural integrity and serviceability of polymer components, develop life predictions, and assess compliance with applicable codes for all types of industries and applications. We maintain a large inventory of cutting-edge research tools and technologies to help clients make important decisions regarding life extensions, evaluate damaged components, and perform reliable life predictions and fitness-for-service evaluations.
Exponent experts are uniquely positioned to advise clients on material selection and performance throughout the entire product lifecycle, because for more than fifty years we've been analyzing failures of all types of products, components, and structures. Whether choosing a material for a new product, evaluating the chemical compounds of an existing product, or analyzing the cause of failure in a damaged component, Exponent provides comprehensive consultation, testing, research, and evaluation at each stage of the product lifecycle.
Exponent leverages X-ray computed tomography (CT) data to perform complex product analyses, such as measuring dimensional changes inside batteries during cycling, wear mapping in medical devices, quantifying void spaces in cast parts, assessing product compliance, and identifying the model and manufacturer of failed components. Exponent routinely employs CT analysis of a wide variety of objects to support failure analysis investigations; quality/reliability assessments; and intellectual property, regulatory, and products liability litigation support.
With expertise in chemical engineering, plastics and other synthetic polymers, consumer products, and related regulatory issues, our global consulting staff helps clients design sustainability into their whole product lifecycle, creating a circular economy from material selection, formulation, manufacturing, and packaging to end-of-life and reintegration as post-consumer waste to create new products.
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