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Ceramic/Metal Seal, Glass/Metal Seal, Thin & Thick Films, Coating, Effective Manufacturing, Analysis
Expert has in-depth expertise of moly-manganese metallization on alumina, zirconia, mullite, sapphire, and others. His metallization knowledge includes Mo/Mn, W/Ti, and active alloy brazing, and has extensive experience with various soldering and brazing methods. His educational background covers the theory…
Failure Analysis of Materials
MATERIAL FAILURE ANALYSIS; ADHESIVE FAILURE; COMPOSITE FAILURE; METAL FAILURE. Expert's (pronounced Wall-teen) principal occupation has been in the analysis of failures of machine components, including orthopedic (surgical) implants. Materials analyzed include metals and alloys of all types, polymers, elastomers, composites,…
Plasma-Aided Manufacturing
Expert has been involved in the development of a number of features for these devices. These include the dual cell, programmed swept radio frequency excitation, external ion injection, and mass separation. He has also been able to utilize this concept…
Refractories and Ceramics
Expert has had extensive experience in industry as well as academia in the area of advanced ceramics. He was a professor of Ceramic Engineering for 12 years, and has been a Summer Researcher at three national labs. He has been…
Abrasive Technology, Machining, Grinding, Expert Witness, and Engineering
Creep-feed grinding was the subject of Expert's PhD work. His research provided the basis for next-generation grinding processes, as well as grinding machine tool design. He has authoritative expertise in the area of creep-feed grinding and related machining operations.Expert has…
Synthesis and Characterization of Ceramic Powders and Single Crystals
Expert has used microencapsulation as a method to prepare multicomponent ceramic powders containing two to five components. He developed (and is in the process of patenting) the first dry microencapsulation process that also can be used as a granulation method.…
Powder Processing/Fabrication
Expert (prefers Expert ) has devoted most of his recent career to developing processing techniques, procedures, equipment, and control systems for preparing powders and forming/shaping components. This work has covered the full range of operation necessary for manufacturing ceramic components.…
Electrical Ceramics, Ceramic Capacitors, Ceramic Processing, Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectrics,
Expert has 50 years of experience in ceramic processing and properties of electrical ceramics, including capacitors,multilayer ceramic capacitors, insulators, dielectrics, inductors, resistors, thermistors, sensors, transducers, varistors, superconductors, and thin-layer capacitors. He has 10 years of industrial experience and 36 years…
Precision Mechanical Device Design and Manufacture, Laser Processing, etc.
Expert and his associates are experts in laser processing of most common materials. These materials include dissimilar materials welding, photoablation of ceramics and polymers using the excimer laser, and high-pressure laser cutting. Expert's company has all Employer types of industrial…
Electron Microscopy of Materials
Expert has over 30 years of experience in obtaining compositional and diffraction information from thin specimens in the electron microscope. Materials he has analyzed have included steels, aluminum alloys, oxide ceramics, and heterogeneous catalysts. Some significant effort has been made…