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Die Casting Machinery, Die Cast Trim Presses, Die Casting Automation Equipment, and Die Casting Processes
Expert has engaged in the design, manufacture and sales of hot chamber zinc alloy die casting machinery for 46 years. He has been an owner of several die casting machinery manufacturing companies and has represented overseas manufacturers of die casting…
Pyrometallurgical Processes, Ferroalloy Smelting, AC-DC-Induction-Cupola Faces
Expert has applied his metallurgical engineering background to design novel processes, optimize energy consumption and efficiencies in smelter plants, resource evaluation and techno-economic modelling of metallurgical operations. He has developed custom process flow diagrams to utilize mineral resources that otherwise…
Minimizing Production Start Up Problems, NPD, Cold Heading, Fastener Applications
Cold Heading A total of 20+ years experience in the cold heading of specialty parts, screws, bolts, and solid rivets primarily for the automotive and appliance markets. He has experience in tool design, establishing forming sequences, cost estimating, manufacturing troubleshooting,…
Aluminium Wire Production and Products
Expert graduated in Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield in England and went on to complete a PhD in the thermodynamics and electrochemistry of high temperature, pseudo refining reactions. His first role in industry required the use of this electrochemical…
Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, Failure Analysis, Materials Selection, and Materials Design
Expert has a Ph.D in Industrial Metallurgy and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering -- specifically, in mechanical behavior and performance of metals and alloys -- from the University of Birmingham, England. His research interests include mechanical behavior of materials-microstructure-deformation processing relations,…
Injury Biomechanics (head and spine), Medical Device Design, Structural Analysis, Patents
Expert has over 30 years of experience in structural analysis, including experience porting finite element codes to specialized architectures, developing special-purpose mesh generation tools, and assessing the correspondence of structural models with experimental measurements. Expert has developed de novo programs…
Flexible Packaging Processes: Rotogravure Printing, Extrusion Coating/Lamianting, Dry Bond
He has experience developing flexible packaging materials utilizing cold seals as sealants. His primary experience is in candy wrappers. He developed simplistic methods for assuring cold seal registration during production runs. He has developed flexible packaing laminations for food and…
Material Selection, Corrosion Inhibition, and Failure Analysis in Oil and Gas (E&P) and the Chemical Industry
Expert's major contributions are in the area of materials selection, corrosion failure analysis and corrosion inhibition. 1. Optimized Material selection, process control and chemical treatment for the feasibility report (FR) for Oil and Gas field development/Revamping with modifications & Chemical…
Metallurgical Engineering, Failure Analysis, Heat Treatment, Supplier Development and Coatings
He has performed over 500 failure analysis of components which fractured due to fatigue. This has included both low cycle and high cycle fatigue failures due to mechanical, thermal mechanical and environmentally enhanced fatigue. He has specified and developed various…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…