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Insulating Oils, Heat Transfer, Electronics Cooling, Environmental Lubricants, synthetic lubricants
Expert has many years of experience working with electrical insulating and heat transfer fluids (including insulating oils) and the dielectric properties of liquid and solid materials. He is considered an expert on material characteristics and heat transfer with all types…
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…
Corrosion in Plant, Buildings, HVAC, Hi-Temp, Surveys/Failure Analysis; Expert Witness, Seminars
Expert has over 35 years of experience in practical aspects of materials utilization involving steels, stainless and high alloy steels, nickel and nickel alloys, copper and copper alloys, aluminum and aluminum alloys, and titanium and titanium alloys in many corrosive…
Silicone, RTV Rubber
ROOM TEMPERATURE VULCANIZING (RTV) RUBBER; SILICONE ELASTOMER. Expert spent a significant portion of his career in the area of silicone RTVs. He has applied his expertise in developing new processes, test techniques, and troubleshooting manufacturing systems. His work has led…
Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Processing, Materials Failure Analysis
Expert has gained extensive experience in the uses of ferrous metals and alloys (carbon and alloy steel, high strength steel, structural steel, heat resistant steel), non-ferrous metals and alloys, superalloys, stainless steels (austenitic, ferritic, martensitic, and precipitation hardening grades), tool…
Refractories and Ceramics
Expert has had extensive experience in industry as well as academia in the area of advanced ceramics. He was a professor of Ceramic Engineering for 12 years, and has been a Summer Researcher at three national labs. He has been…
Electronic Product Development
Expert (pronounced road-re-an) has designed analog circuits that measure current or voltage signals from temperature, pressure, flow, and conductivity transducers. He has designed isolated, 4-20 mA current loop transmitters. The analog circuits provide inputs to or outputs from microprocessor-based controllers.…
Cryogenic Materials
AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL. Expert has expertise in the development of new nitrogen-strengthened steels. He was the U.S. representative to the High Nitrogen in Steels International Conference. He has also published three review papers and about 50 technical papers on low-temperature…
Heat Pipes and Cryogenics
Expert has an international reputation in heat pipe analysis and design. He has done extensive modeling and testing to predict and verify heat pipe performance for both space and terrestrial applications. He has pioneered the performance modeling of gravity-assisted heat…
Automation, Special Machinery, Product Design, Design reviews, Patent reviews
Expert has 40 years of experience in the design of products, production machinery, integrated manufacturing systems, and factory automation for the food, medical, drug, cosmetic, apparel, electronic, battery disposables, electrical, automotive, rubber, plastic, paper, textiles and many other industries. His…