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Plastics; Plastic Failure Analysis
Leading expert on the failure of plastic piping including CPVC, PVC, and PEX. Globally renowned expert in styrene polymerization and polystyrene Have extensive experience conducting failure analysis of plastic and composite parts. Have served as an expert witness in about…
Adhesive Consulting, Formulating, & Research in Structural, PSA, Hot Melt, Epoxy, Urethane, & Wood
Expert D. Expert has done adhesive failure analysis projects in connection with establishing cause in litigation cases or in research and production problems. For example, a wood millwork manufacturer claimed an adhesive was faulty, resulting in customer loss and damages.…
Corrosion and Metallurgical Failure Analysis
Expert notes that corrosion is a major problem that affects many industries. Expert has spent over forty years studying and solving corrosion problems in the construction, aerospace, defense, petroleum, utility and related industries. He was also the technical editor of…
Fatigue of Elastomers
Expert managed a tire components development group for a major synthetic rubber supplier for 15 years. During this time he personally established a state-of-the-art fatigue laboratory to assess the fatigue crack growth resistance of various elastomers, compounds, and blends of…
Wood Adhesives and Wood Composite Products
Expert has been an active research scientist in the area of wood adhesives for more than 27 years. He has carried out research on the thermosetting bonding of wood particleboards using urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins in the laboratory to optimize the…
Veterinary Drugs, Veterinary Pharmaceuticals, Animal Drugs, Animal Pharmaceuticals
Expert retired in 1992 from the FDA after a 29-year career. He spent his career in the FDA as a field laboratory analytical Chemist, a scientific coordinator in the management of Quality Assurance programs for field scientists, a program analyst,…
Polymer Fiber Based Materials; Patent Litigation
Expert is a Materials Science and Engineering professor with a primary focus in polymeric materials. The physics of fibers incorporates all aspects from fiber production through fiber-based materials utilization. For efficient production, the physics and chemistry of the starting material,…
Organic Process Chemistry
Expert has developed, scaled-up, and commercialized a key step in vitamin A synthesis. The step was commercialized at the Belgorod Vitamin Plant in Russia. This gave him an in-depth knowledge of fine organic synthesis. Expert has developed, scaled-up, and commercialized…
Electrical Connectors
Expert has applied his physics background to generate a fundamental understanding of temperature generation and material transport in electrical contact spots (a-spots) in bulk electrical interfaces. Over 25 years, his research showed that 1) Sintering effects occur in a-spots even…
Controlled Release, Microencapsulation, Drug delivery, Taste Masking, Bioavailability Enhancement
Expert has almost twenty years of experience in the formulation of pharmaceuticals for controlled release delivery. This work includes drug bioavailability enhancement, tastemasking, enteric protection, tableting, colonic delivery, prevention of ingredient interaction, nasal delivery, and buccal delivery. He has employed…