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Expert in Airworthiness, SHM-HUMS, Structural Analysis/Testing, Metals/Composites, IVHM, Aircraft Health Monitoring, Advanced Analytics, and Big Data
Expert has over 30 years' experience in solving aerospace engineering design, analysis and test problems for both metal and composite structures. Expert possesses considerable experience in Aircraft Structural Health Management and Health Monitoring and has authored internationally recognized papers on…
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…
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Powder Metallurgy, Manufacturing, Machine Design
Expert has extensive experience in applied mechanics, including the solution of scientific and engineering problems. He has developed a number of applied-mechanics based models of materials processing; has taught various undergraduate and graduate classes involving concepts of applied mechanics. The…
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.…
Biomechanics, Vehicle accident reconstruction, Stress Analysis, Quality Control by Image Analysis
Everyday physiological activities generate impacts between the foot and ground. This dynamic loading influence the musculoskeletal system, especially bone creation and resorption. Dynamic loading on the human system is evaluated by the expert developed in-vivo, non-invasive methodology, where a small…
Mechanics of Composites, Micromechanics, Nanocomposites, Modeling, Probability
For the past 30 years, The Expert proposed and developed a micromechanics methodology to analyze the wide class of statical and dynamical, local and nonlocal, linear and nonlinear micromechanical problems (thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, piezoelectricity, conductivity) of composite materials with deterministic…
Mechanical Engineering Specializing in Accident Reconstruction and Product Liability
Expert has over 25 years of experience as a professional engineer. He is a licensed Professional Engineer. His consulting work is primarily focused on Accident Reconstruction and Product Liability. This includes product design issues both from a functional and safety…
Structural Failure Analysis and Design, Including Thermal and Non-Linear Analysis
Expert W. Expert has been involved in finding the causes and fixing thermal stress problems since the mid 1970s. These problems have been related to thick walled boiler components, heat exchangers, fluid beds, and fuel cells as well as high…
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…