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Predictive Diagnostics, Machinery Vibration, Industrial Data Science, Sensors and Instrumentation, and Industrial IoT
Expert spent many years working with vibration issues in machinery. His experience ranges from engineering research and design of low noise and vibration machinery to practical vibration analysis and control of machinery installed in the field. The success in resolution…
Railroad Operations, Project Management, Market Analysis and Business Development
Expert has over 40 years of experience in the railroad and transportation industry. After serving in top management positions in Class I and Short Line railroads for many years, he founded Employer in 1983. His vast expertise has included involvement…
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…
Compliant Mechanisms, Flexure/Torsion Hinges, MEMS, Microsystems, and Finite Element Analysis
Expert notes that both of Castigliano's theorems are excellent tools in quantifying deformations and loads (external or reaction) of elastic bodies under small- or large-deformation modeling assumptions. He has extensively applied these theorems in finding closed-form solutions for compliances or…
Adhesive Consulting, Formulating, & Research in Structural, PSA, Hot Melt, Epoxy, Urethane, & Wood
Expert D. Expert has done adhesive failure analysis projects in connection with establishing cause in litigation cases or in research and production problems. For example, a wood millwork manufacturer claimed an adhesive was faulty, resulting in customer loss and damages.…
Sensing & Measurements, Quantum Mechanics, Solid State, & Thermal & Optical Technology
Expert received his Ph.D. in condensed-matter physics. He used quantum mechanics and Surface Green Function techniques to calculate electronic states and electronic bands at metallic superlattices, discovering, for example, the existence--under determined conditions-of the so-called Fermi beaches with high density…
Electrical Capacitance Tomography, Multiphase Flow Measurement, Circuit Design, Data Acquisition
Industrial tomography is an emerging technology used to visualise internal behaviour of industrial processes, such as gas/oil/water flows in oil pipelines, gas/solids flows in pneumatic conveyors, and mixing/separation processes in plant vessels. The cross sectional images produced by tomography systems…
Machine Tools, Semiconductor Process Equipment, Machine Dynamics, Metrology
In his research on structural dynamics, Expert employs the techniques of finite element analysis extensively. He regularly uses ANSYS, NASTRAN, Pro/Engineer, and SDRC Master Series in analyzing a variety of static, transient, thermal, and eigenvalue problems. Examples of his recent…
Structural Analysis, FEA
ROTATING EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS. Expert has applied his knowledge of the finite element method and his field experience with hardware to evaluate, analyze, and upgrade the design of a wide range of rotating equipment. He has worked with fans, compressors,…
Mechanical Noise/Vibration
Expert has expertise in many aspects of automotive noise control and issues related to sound quality. His research has been on technology's cutting edge in transmission noise, brake squeal, and electro-mechanical actuator noise. He has also consulted on engine noise,…