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Weld Structure, Tanks, Vessels
Expert (pronounced ma-kit-ka, ) has over 35 years experience in practical applications requiring consideration of materials, toughness, impact energy and resistance, tensile strength, yield strength, and ductility of metals. This includes experience with properties of welds and weldments, and ASME…
Finite Element Techniques
FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE. Expert has built an internationally known research program in the area of automated adaptive finite element modeling. Research activities have focused on the development of techniques to reliably automate the finite element modeling…
Urban Design and Planning, Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities, New Urbanism, Context-Sensitive Design
Expert has spent a significant portion of his career researching the relationship between the chemical and physical properties of asphalt cements. He has extensive knowledge of the rheology and durability of asphaltic materials, and also of the methods used to…
Hydraulic and Hydrologic Engineering
Expert has over 40 years of experience in water resources planning, development, and management. His experience includes: planning; conceptual design; development of plans and specifications; construction and functional operation of flood control; and navigation and multi-purpose dam and reservoir projects.…
Continuum Electromechanics
Expert has focused on minimizing the current needed to yield lift/stabilization forces with high speed magnetic bearings. He uses boundary element field analyses to perform this optimization as well as to get leakage and eddy current losses. He is developing…
X-Ray Imaging
Expert is the inventor, designer, and project scientist/program manager of a number of different X-ray imaging systems, ranging from satellite-based X-ray telescopes to large systems for nondestructive imaging of 50 ton rocket motors and nuclear pressure vessels. Expert has both…