About Us

Simon Forensic, LLC

is an independent materials testing laboratory. 

We practice industrial forensics.

 Our focus is on metal testing, metallurgy, coatings, corrosion, aggregates, polymers, carbon fiber and the physical chemistry of failure analysis. 

Our testing provides personalized, non-biased, third party verification of materials and can provide answers to solve issues such as product failure, quality control, foreign material identification and metal alloy identification.

When you have a failed part of a structure or machine, we make it our job to tell you why. 

A key instrument at Simon Forensic is the Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS). With this state-of-the-art instrument Omar can analyze a broad spectrum of material, and identify chemical properties of your material. Please see Electron Microscopy for more information. 

Forensic investigation + chemical analysis

= Forensic Chemistry.

Since 1999 Omar Simon has been gaining experience that informs his expertise. At Simon Forensic he has an ever-growing collection of specialized instruments to establish facts of interest that can translate into answers for clients. Together with Material Scientist Vaughn Hack and Senior Metallurgist Rainer Eckert, the team can provide answers for:

• • • • product failure

      • quality control

      • foreign material identification

      • metal alloy identification

      • reverse engineering

      • ASTM aggregate testing

The metal testing department can determine ANY type of metal and the unique combination of instrumentation provides a broad testing capability. See Metal Testing and ID for more information.