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John D Pratt

John D. Pratt, Ph.D., P.E.

Argos Engineering
44 Argos, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Office 949.363.8205
Mobile 949.705.7860
Fax 949.429.5972

Argos Engineering was established to provide litigation consulting and structural engineering services. With more than 35 years of aerospace engineering experience, Argos Engineering is uniquely positioned to provide failure analysis, accident investigation and reconstruction, numerical modeling, and product development services to diverse industries. Finite element modeling with advanced code from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) enables comprehensive analysis of static and dynamic events.

Argos Engineering's principal, Dr. John D. Pratt, has earned 32 United States patents during his 35-year career in the aerospace fastener and latching mechanism business. He has served as Chairman of several domestic and international committees dealing with aerospace hardware and design allowables. During this time he has led the development of many aerospace systems, including the terrorist-proof cockpit door decompression latches used on half of the world fleet of commercial transport aircraft. Other successes include the Composi-Lok I and II and Visu-Lok II blind bolts and cylindrical-body Wedge-Lock product lines.

Court experience includes testimony in several patent infringement and products liability suits, as well as extended testimony before the Federal Trade Commission.

As Chairman of the Industrial Fasteners Institute Technical Committee for Aerospace Fasteners, Dr. Pratt helped lead efforts to draft FAA-TSO-C148, and subsequently received the first FAA approvals under that regulation. Dr. Pratt also served as International Chairman of ISO/TC20/SC4/WG8, the organization for standardization of aerospace rivets, blind fasteners, lockbolts, and threaded pin-collar fasteners (e.g., Hi-Lites). In this capacity many of today's standards for metric aerospace fasteners were established.

Areas of expertise:

Fasteners, latches, and decompression mechanisms
Aircraft (and other vehicle) structural analysis
Aircraft rapid decompression
Structural wind load calculation and analysis

Services Provided:

Litigation consulting
Deposition and trial testimony
Structural analysis
New product development and testing