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Mechanics (Stress, Dynamics, Test), Modeling (FEA, CFD, Chemical), Machine Design, Controls
At Cessna, Expert designed the pressure cabin, empennage, and main spar carry through for the 441 Conquest and 650 Citation 2. His other engineering responsibilities included stress measurement (strain gauges, brittle coatings), solids modeling (NASTRAN), and FAA certification report authoring.…
High Performance Gear Design
Expert is an expert with over 25 years of experience in research, development, and design of mechanical motion and power transmission. He is the developer of a gear design method and software. This method allows him to significantly maximize gear…
Mechanical and Electrical Design and Failure Analysis
Expert has over 35 years of experience in failure analysis, design, damage mechanics (corrosion, fracture, fatigue, creep, etc.) and risk assessment of: structures; cable structures and systems; stadium roofs; industrial equipment; turbines and reciprocating engines; automotive and aircraft components; offshore…
Electronics, World Bank Funded Projects Management, Curriculum Development, Education
Expert has been involved in the design of many microcontoller-based systems. The Alarm Annunciator was designed for a process instrumentation industry for annunciation of fault parameters. It was a modular design with each controller handling up to eight isolated inputs…
Automotive Vehicle Dynamics (Handling), and Tire Mechanics (Tire Force and Moment Properties)
Expert has over 35 years of experience working in vehicle dynamics. He has worked on a wide variety of projects and with a broad selection of different vehicles. These range from determining tire properties for radio control cars to improving…
Chemical Manufacturing
Expert has specialized in the design of batch and continuous blending operations typical in the chemical, food, detergent, and personal care products industries. He has developed designs to minimize product aeration and eliminate product storage equipment. He has designed solid…
Gear Design & Analysis
HELICAL GEAR DESIGN; SPUR GEAR DESIGN; GEAR TOOTH. Expert has extensive experience in the design and analysis of spur and helical gears. He is the author of the computer programs GEARCALC and AGMA218, which are widely used by the gear…
Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Pumps, Valves, Hydrostatic Drives and Propulsion Systems
Expert has over 47 years experience designing and applying fluid power systems. He has applied hydraulic and pneumatic components as well as automatic lube systems in industrial applications such as metal processing, material handling, chemical processing, and manufacturing. In mobile…
Gear Dynamics, Gear Noise
Expert heads a laboratory devoted to gear noise research. This lab is supported by over 25 companies. He is a principal lecturer of a gear noise short course offered annually. This course has been taken by over 600 individuals from…