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Chemistry, Tribology, Training
Expert's areas of expertise include Analytical Chemistry, Rheology, Tribology, and Computational Chemistry. He has experience in Vacuum Systems and Vacuum depositions and surface chemistry. Expert is working with STLE as subject matter expert in lubrication fundamentals. Expert received a Ph.D.…
Offshore: Deep & Ultra Deepwater, Exploration, Appraisal & Horizontal, Subsea Development Drilling
Expert time served and trained for several years as a marine engineering officer gaining hands marine engineering experience and knowledge of a ships engine room, notably as a 2nd engineering officer on at that time pone of the world most…
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,…
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…
Insurance Agency Valuation and Common Practices, Producer Agreements and Compensation Programs
For over 25 years Expert has assisted insurance agency owners resolve internal management and ownership disputes in an equitable manner, avoiding sale or dissolution unless no other resolution can be achieved. Expert is a member of the arbitration panel of…
Biomaterials, Medical Device Rapid Prototyping, and Laser Processing of Materials
Since their invention in the early 1960s, lasers have found many uses in the medical field. Most current medical applications of lasers involve use as a “universal scalpel” in minimally invasive surgeries, which offer little contact, little blood loss, shorter…
Wide Band-Gap Materials, Diamond and Diamond Film, Nuclear Materials, Radiation
Expert served as a science advisor on a strategic defense initiative project called CENTARUS with the Department of Energy (DOE). He holds an unclassified DOE patent on remotely driving a solid state laser with fluorescence generated by nuclear reactions. In…
Grinding Processes and Technology, Power Tool Accessories Testing and Manufacture
52100 steel is the primary material used for standard bearings and automotive products that act as raceway materials. It is also common to use the material for bearing balls. The expert has extensive experience grinding the hardened form of this…
Tribology, Wear, Coatings, Materials Selection, Materials Testing, Computer Modeling, Lubrication
Expert has experience with numerous types of abrasive wear problems, including the design of optimal surface topography to minimize abrasive wear. This includes surface design, wear testing, and the use of coatings in abrasive wear environments to enhance system life…
Powder Metallurgy, Magnetic Alloy
Since 1980, Expert has been instrumental in the development of new magnetic alloys, their processing, improvement in their properties, and preparation of specifications for their usage. He has also assisted in marketing these materials and recommending their usage for new,…