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Corrosion, Steel, Autos, Coated Steel Sheet, Galvalume, Galvanized, Galfan, Weathering Steel
During a 34-year career in the research department of a major steel producer, Expert was responsible for accelerated testing of all steel products, including Galvalume and galvanized metallic-coated products, and weathering steels. Accelerated test methods included: cabinet tests such as…
Materials for Electronic Applications
Expert has successfully writen 2 proposals for EPA SBIR grants. The first was for a phase 1 program for the recovery and regeneration of spent etchants. This successful program was followed by a phase 2 proposal and award. That phase…
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…
Thin Film Deposition, Specializing in Reactive Sputtering
Expert D. Expert has extensive experience in magnetron sputtering of aluminum and in the high-rate reactive sputtering of aluminum compounds such as aluminum oxide. He was the first to show that aluminum oxide with excellent film properties can be reactively…
Metal Finishing, Parts Cleaning, Electroplating, Electroforming
Expert has production experience with cyanide copper, pyrophosphate, and acid copper plating baths. He has worked in a laboratory environment with both the fluoroborate and alkaline non-cyanide baths. He has used these baths for PWB plating, wafer plating, electroforming, plating…
Corrosion and Metallurgical Failure Analysis
Expert notes that corrosion is a major problem that affects many industries. Expert has spent over forty years studying and solving corrosion problems in the construction, aerospace, defense, petroleum, utility and related industries. He was also the technical editor of…
Failure Analysis and Objective Forensic Analysis: Ballistics
Expert has expertise in the the evaluation of metallurgical failures, including root cause analysis. He spent a sabbatical at Perkins Engineering in the UK conducting failure analysis in their materials lab and has 17 years experience conducting independent investigations in…
Biomaterials and Product Development R&D for Orthopedic, Cardiovascular, and Other Implants
Expert has helped assemble, and been lead author on 510(k) and IDE applications to the FDA. This has often included telephone conversations, and occasionally personal visits, with the FDA to discuss unique aspects of the devices and/or materials in the…
Mechanical Properties of Metals
Expert has studied aluminum alloys from the 2xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx series and studied their grain size, tensile properties, heat treatments, corrosion resistance, and fatigue behavior (both room temperature stress - life (S-N) and crack growth behavior). His work…
Electrical Connectors
Expert has applied his physics background to generate a fundamental understanding of temperature generation and material transport in electrical contact spots (a-spots) in bulk electrical interfaces. Over 25 years, his research showed that 1) Sintering effects occur in a-spots even…