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Welding Engineering: Application, Arcs, Laser, Base Metal, Troubleshooting, Pressure, Nuclear, Code
Expert's welding career began in a family-owned welding and radiator repair shop. He progressed to welding on offshore oil and gas platform structures, processing facilities, and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico while an undergraduate engineering student. As a graduate…
Engineering, Construction, and Standard of Care
Expert has 25 years of engineering experience working on regional, national and global projects including the design, engineering, construction and commissioning of numerous residential, commercial and industrial facilities. He has provided subject matter expertise in engineering, engineering management, facility design…
Machine Tools, Heavy Equipment, and Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies
Expert began using CAM in its earliest stages, using Compact II and DataCut to created machine instructions for Numerically Controlled (NC) Machine Tools. He advanced to writing scripts and macros in Automatically Programmed Tools (APT) to perform machining functions around…
Metallurgy, Welding Engineering, and Quality Assurance in the Pressure Vessel and Piping Industry
Expert has worked in the pressure vessel and piping industry, since 1975. He has worked as a metallurgist, welding engineer, QA manager, and consultant, Expert's experience includes the design, fabrication, and operation of various power and refinery plant components, including…
Diving Accident Investigation
Bob notes that corrosion is a major problem that affects many industries. Bob 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…
Microscopic Yag Laser Welding
Expert specializes in aerospace and superalloys. He can identify and correct welding defects sometimes inherent in YAG laser welding, such as cracking from plasma shear, microfracturing, and porosity sometimes encountered in the welding process. He is an expert microscopic welder…
Welding Engineering, Materials Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Marine Coatings
Welding and Metallurgical Engineer with over 35 years of extensive experience in the application of technology to business functions in the areas of design, manufacturing, construction and operations. Experience is diverse and extensive in the energy and defense industries. Strengths…
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…
Welding of Steels and Other Alloys in Structural, Aerospace, Pharmaceutical & Refinery Applications
Expert has extensive experience with many arc welding processes, including gas-tungsten arc welding (GTAW), gas-metal arc welding (GMAW), shielded-metal arc welding (SMAW), and submerged-arc welding (SAW). He is familiar with both manual and automatic versions of these processes, as applied…