Suzanne F. Uchneat

Suzanne Uchneat is a Senior Consultant with over a decade of experience in documentation, investigation, and analysis of complex failures. She is a professionally licensed mechanical engineer who specializes in the study of mechanical behavior of materials in relation to structure, properties, and performance. Her technical expertise includes fatigue and fracture, corrosion, environmental degradation of materials, laboratory testing, fractography, materials characterization, inspections, and data analysis.

During her career at ESi, Ms. Uchneat has served in project management and technical roles in complex, multidisciplinary failure investigations involving components and systems across a wide variety of industries. She has managed investigations involving aerospace, automotive, marine, rail, power distribution, medical, plumbing, construction, and recreational products industries as well as intellectual property matters.