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Physical Metallurgy, Materials Joining, Alloy Design, Computational Metallurgy, Thermodynamics
Arc welding is one of the most widely used metal joining technique. On a commercial scale, this is of vital importance and many of the metals are better arc welded to yield a strong joint. But, this also means there…
Mechanics of Composites, Micromechanics, Nanocomposites, Modeling, Probability
For the past 30 years, The Expert proposed and developed a micromechanics methodology to analyze the wide class of statical and dynamical, local and nonlocal, linear and nonlinear micromechanical problems (thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, piezoelectricity, conductivity) of composite materials with deterministic…
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…
Fasteners, Latching mechanisms, structures, aircraft decompression.
Expert has extensive experience in the nonlinear analysis of structures and metals behavior. He has developed algorithms that enable accurate nonlinear finite element analysis of metallic components and assemblies up to the point of failure. As Chairman of the joint…
Surface Texture and Operational Characteristics of Machines
The expert is most experienced in the subset of surface science related to mathematics and mechanics of surface irregularities on micro- and macro scales and their contact interaction. In addition he has experience in the field of surface metrology and…
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…
Materials Processing and Manufacturing
Recent work in Expert's group has shown that high velocity sheet metal forming can dramatically improve material formability (the amount of stretch available without tearing) and wrinkling can be greatly suppressed. Electromagnetic forming is a very convenient way of flexibly…
Welding, Flame Straightening
WELDING. Expert has over 20 years of practical welding experience working on products such as power plants, turbines, mining machinery, paper mill machines, rolling mill machinery, and rail car building. METAL FABRICATION. Expert has more than 25 years of experience…
Fatigue and Experimental Mechanics
Expert has spent the bulk of his career in developing improved methods for predicting the fatigue life of mechanical parts. He has helped dozens of companies in designing and evaluating products for adequate fatigue performance, covering the spectrum from construction…