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Forensic Engineering, Failure Analysis, Metallurgy, Corrosion, Slip and Fall, Mechanical Design, R&D
Expert is a registered & Board-Certified Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, with 74 publications, 23 Invited Talks and Lectures, and 27+ years of experience in engineering R&D in industry and academia, Consulting, and Expert Witness Litigation Support including…
Combustion, Combustor Design, Combustor Acoustical Problems, Analysis, CFD, Engineering Design
Expert designed and tested missles and spacecraft in many Hypersonic wind tunnels at elevated temperatures and pressures from Mach 3 simulation to Mach 8 simulation at NASA. The expertise included test procedures for starting such facilities and techniques to avoid…
Personal Injury, Industrial/Construction Safety, Compliance, Auditing, OSHA Standards
Expert provides safety engineering, accident investigation, accident reconstruction, industrial/construction accident consulting, expert witness testimony, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients. In addition to the automotive “Big Three” he was the safety director at a sheet metal stamping…
Compliant Mechanisms, Flexure/Torsion Hinges, MEMS, Microsystems, and Finite Element Analysis
Expert notes that both of Castigliano's theorems are excellent tools in quantifying deformations and loads (external or reaction) of elastic bodies under small- or large-deformation modeling assumptions. He has extensively applied these theorems in finding closed-form solutions for compliances or…
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.…
Lean Manufacturing, Constraint Analysis/Resolution, New Product Planning, Manufacturing Engineering
Expert Kopstein (formerly Even) works with management and plant teams in the evaluation and implementation of advanced technology integration, efficiency improvement, waste reduction and productivity. Compliance and implementation of quality systems including aspects of ISO 9000, strategic planning, cost containment,…
Electrical Capacitance Tomography, Multiphase Flow Measurement, Circuit Design, Data Acquisition
Industrial tomography is an emerging technology used to visualise internal behaviour of industrial processes, such as gas/oil/water flows in oil pipelines, gas/solids flows in pneumatic conveyors, and mixing/separation processes in plant vessels. The cross sectional images produced by tomography systems…
Blow Molding, Product Development, Training, Bottles, Plastic Containers, PET Preforms
Expert has worked for three blow molding machine manufacturers and gained a solid understanding of the blow molding industry. In his capacity as Employer, Expert is being called upon to trouble-shoot machine and process problems. He advises clients on optimized…
Electronic Engineering
Expert is an electrical engineer with extensive experience in electronic and electromechanical design. His expertise includes linear systems design and analysis, linear signal processing, system interfacing, and familiarity with C and Fortran programming languages. He has built a solid reputation…
Microcontroller-based Product Design
Most of the projects expert has been involved with have been real-time dependent. He has designed high-speed bit-slice-based data acquisition units for military aircraft radar, high-speed machinery controls, home automation, cordless telephones, fitness equipment, arcade games, and other consumer products.…