Biomechanical & Biomedical Engineering
As people navigate their daily lives in the workplace and personal environments, they constantly experience various forms of motion, impact, and applied forces—biomechanics is the study of how these applied forces affect the human body. Often, biomechanics expertise is needed as part of investigations on vehicle accidents, medical device malfunctions, child-based furniture failures, food accidents, slips and falls on various premises, or commercial door impacts on customers.
Expert Services Across Industries and Incident Types
To thoroughly analyze how applied forces impact people’s bodies, biomechanical and biomedical engineers like our experts at Kimley-Horn have a rigorous understanding of both mechanical engineering and biology. We have conducted investigations across a variety of industries—including transportation, consumer products, industrial, construction, agricultural, and recreational—and are experienced providing injury causation analyses and kinematics analyses for the following incidents:
- Motor vehicle collisions
- Pedestrian and bicycle accidents
- Slip, trip, and fall accidents
- Medical device and equipment failures
- Workplace accidents
- Construction accidents
- Low-speed automotive collisions
- Vehicle restraint usage
Customized Biomedical Engineering Analyses
After an incident, biomedical engineering analyses can help determine what forces and motion were present and how and why tissue damage occurred. We analyze how people interact with their environments and investigate injuries to many aspects of the human body, including the head, neck, lower back, upper/lower extremities, and torso. Our expert biomedical engineering analyses can provide you with valuable information when trying to answer the following questions:
- Are the reported injuries consistent with the forces experienced during the incident?
- Are the documented injuries consistent with the described incident scenario?
We can support accident evaluations and investigate injury claims to determine whether reports are consistent with the accident scenario. Even if the injuries are not in dispute, their analysis and documentation can often provide a valuable source of evidence to determine how an incident occurred.
For instance, a common request we receive is to evaluate potential injuries in low-speed accidents or accidents that result in minimal to no damage. These analyses can start with simple photographic evidence from the scene or the vehicles to determine the forces and acceleration to evaluate the injury claims. Let our experts support your investigation with our biomechanical and biomedical engineering experience—providing you with a thorough analysis that meets your needs.
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