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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…
Titanium Welding, Zirconium Welding, Hastaloy Welding, Stainless Steel Welding
After obtaining government certification Expert has used his extensive knowledge and practical experiance to complete and teach fusion welding on such items as Heat exchangers for the pulp and paper and petro-chemical industries, and high pressure vessels. After completing government…
Welding, Fabrication, Piping, Pressure Vessels, Shipbuilding, Brazing, Heat / Flame Straightening
He has successfully qualified hundreds of welding procedure qualifications for seam welding. Most notably he has worked with pipe manufacturers in Mexico to implement a 4 wire SAW process for piping longseams. He has been involved with all types of…
Steel Tube Technology Management, QMS, EMS, OHSAS, TQM, Stretch Target Process/ Product Development
General: Proficiency in the primary areas A post graduate in Metallurgy ( univ gold Medalist) and an MBA with 37 years of primary expertise in the following major areas: 1. Quality Management, Quality Assurance 2. Product and process development 3.…
Materials Science, Particularly Corrosion: Microbial Corrosion, Materials Selection, Biodegradation
Biodegradation mainly refers to enhanced degradation and deterioration of non-metallic materials such as concrete and polymers to distinguish it from microbial corrosion of metals. Under certain circumstances, there are groups of micro-organisms that are capable of attacking these materials and…
Quality Auditing, Welding Engineering
Expert has applied his knowledge of Welding Engineering in training Welders/Fitters in the area of Welding Inspection and some of them are now AWS Certified Welding Inspectors which helped the companies they work for save a lot of money employing…
Forensic Engineering, Failure Analysis, Metallurgy, Corrosion, Slip and Fall, Mechanical Design, R&D
Expert is a registered & Board-Certified Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, with 74 publications, 23 Invited Talks and Lectures, and 27+ years of experience in engineering R&D in industry and academia, Consulting, and Expert Witness Litigation Support including…
Resistance Welding, Laser Welding, Arc Welding, Ultrasonic Welding, Brazing, and Soldering
He has extensive experience in brazing starting with his PhD (Penn State) in brazing of structural ceramics. He worked on the Alumnia-Titanium system using an active braze alloy of Ag-Cu-Ti composition. Active brazing has found wide acceptance in brazing of…
Machine Vision, Lasers, Laser-based Systems, Laser process, Light Processing, Optical Testing, Optics, Automation, Machine Design
Expert has developed automated inspection systems for various industries, that is, those systems needed for intermediate process control, as well as for final inspections. He is experienced with vision resolutions up to 4K by 4k with speeds up to 60…
Welding, Fabrication, Failure Analysis conventional and nuclear stainless & nickel base
Expert learned that stainless steel parts in a carbon steel world are welded to another metal. Success requires attention, not only to chemistry mixtures (metallurgy) (Ferrite Diagrams), but also to mechanical forces before and during welding, as well as service…