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Metallurgical and Failure Investigations Caused by Corrosion, Degradation, Biological Activity, Fatigue, and Overload in Metallic/Non-Metallic Materials
After gaining a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics, Expert spent three years tertiary teaching, eight years of university research on materials and materials degradation, and, since 1985, consulting for industry on failure analysis, corrosion mitigation, and materials selection. Since 2001,…
Materials Engineering, Polymers, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Corrosion, and Adhesion Science
Expertise in chemistry, materials science, metals, polymers, corrosion, coatings and packaging. Expert has over 20 years of experience working as a technical consultant in materials engineering, polymers, metallurgy, chemistry, corrosion and adhesion science. She has been an advisor to companies…
Industrial Utilities (Equipment, Operation, Maintenance); Energy Conservation; Vibrations
Expert worked as a staff mechanical engineer at what was the world's largest single site producer of PET. The staff supported operations and maintenance departments throughout the facility, with heavy emphasis on the utilities department. Troubleshooting centrifugal pumps was a…
Industrial Engineering Productivity Services for Manufacturing or Distribution Centers
WORK MEASUREMENT TYPES Assembly manufacturers or distribution centers have three main types of labor standards: Output Estimates that a department foreman generally establishes. Historical output that are records of past accomplishment. And Industrial Engineered Standards that are developed by trained…
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…
Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Fractures, Failures, Explosions, Pressure Vessels and Systems
Expert has worked in ASME, API, EN, BS, AS and other international design codes especially in pressure equipment in the nuclear, fossil fuel, petro-chemical, transportable and gas cylinder industries. He has worked on code development in both Europe and Australia.…
Optical Fiber Mechanical Properties and Reliability
He is currently co-authoring a completely revised edition of Mechanical Properties of Ceramics. His contributions are primarily concerned with the mathematical basics of mechanical behavior as well as statistical and stress corrosion aspects of strength. He has developed computational models…
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…
Structural Analysis, FEA
ROTATING EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS. Expert has applied his knowledge of the finite element method and his field experience with hardware to evaluate, analyze, and upgrade the design of a wide range of rotating equipment. He has worked with fans, compressors,…
Process Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy Systems and Equipment, Alternate Energy, Power Generation
Expert has more than 20 years of experience dealing with the theory and application of devices to heat and mass transfer applications. He has published widely in the area of direct-contact condensation, evaporation, and liquid-liquid exchange. He is also knowledgeable…