Challenging questions are asked when accidents happen or when people get hurt. Talas Engineering provides knowledge and information to answer these questions by combining professional engineering with insightful scientific analysis, research, and testing. With a team of highly-qualified engineers and staff, our technical services incorporate state-of-the-art techniques and current knowledge in Accident Reconstruction, Biomechanics, and Design Analysis. Talas engineers have nearly 60 years of industry experience and can respond quickly to perform accident investigations and engineering evaluations as well as perform in-depth analyses. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, we provide engineering consulting services throughout the United States.
Examples of Areas of Analysis
- Accident avoidance and prevention
- Acute injuries
- Automotive accident reconstruction
- Bicycle accident reconstruction
- Biomechanical injury tolerance assessment
- Child restraint use and injury analysis
- Consumer product accident reconstruction and design analysis
- Cumulative trauma disorders
- Design analysis and design change trade-offs
- Elevator testing and incident reconstruction
- Failure analysis
- Fall mechanics and injuries
- Guarding
- Heavy vehicle accident reconstruction
- Helmet use assessment and injury analysis
- Human performance and kinematics
- Industrial vehicle and equipment accident reconstruction
- Injury mechanism, causation, and prevention – from Head to Toe
- Locomotive and truck ride quality
- Mechanical engineering
- Motorcycle accident reconstruction
- Occupant kinematic and trajectory analysis
- Patents
- Pedestrian accident reconstruction and injury analysis
- Railroad work task analysis and railroad injury assessment
- Recreational equipment and sporting activity testing, accident reconstruction, and injury analysis
- Restraint, seat belt, and air bag effectiveness, use, and injury analysis
- Risk analysis
- Snow sport and water sport accident reconstruction and injury biomechanics
- Vehicle dynamics
- Vehicular accident reconstruction
- Visibility analysis
- Whole body vibration and hand-arm vibration testing and injury analysis