Expert Forensic Engineer - BE (Hons) BDes PhD FIEAust CPEng RPEQ

tawfikd@tawfikgroup.com.au | +61 (0)4 1225 5112

Expertise

Engineering failure analysis, material failures, mechanical failures, corrosion investigations, construction, pressure equipment, manufacturing, turbo-machinery, mechanical testing, durability, protective coatings, damage assessments, welding, post weld heat treatments,  metallurgy, material characterisation and non destructive examination.

Profile

Dr David Tawfik is a chartered professional engineer who undertakes engineering failure analysis for contentious matters entailing construction materials, pressure equipment, machinery, major engineering assets and infrastructure.  He has been retained as a forensic engineering expert for litigation and arbitration to impartially investigate and opine on matters concerning malperformance, failure and loss of major engineering assets, industrial plants, large machinery, transportation accidents, storage tanks and pressure equipment.  

Dr Tawfik's applied research and scientific approach has enabled his clients and court tribunals understand the actual root cause of an incident based on factual evidence and sound engineering principles.

He has published technical papers and presented at international conferences in welding, metallurgy, residual stresses, non-destructive examination and post weld heat treatments. 

Dr Tawfik has also been appointed as a Court Referee for the Federal Court of Australia in relation to a complex multi-disciplinary construction dispute.

Dr Tawfik has prepared expert witness reports and presented expert evidence at the International Court of Arbitration in Paris and London at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in separate multinational disputes arising from the construction and operation failures of major power stations in North Africa and the Middle East. He was also appointed as an expert in litigation to forensically investigate the mechanical failures of critical equipment used in a nuclear processing facility.