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Asphalt Materials, Paving, Pavements, Roads, Roofing, Ports, Airports, and Rheology
Expert has a unique combination of experience that includes working with a major contractor for 10 years, university appointments and consulting for over 20 years. Expert is a member of numerous expert task groups that further promoting the development of…
Battery Separators, High Temperature Polymers, and Plastic Films
Expert has published approximately 50 papers and holds 17 US patents in various aspects of plastics technology and research. Throughout his career, he has held various technical and management positions with a variety of organizations including Celanese, EniChem America, Applied…
Composite, Polymer, Environment, Durability, Adhesive, Urethane, Thermal Analysis, Failure Analysis
Currently working on development and testing of biodegradable polymer blends (some nanocomposite in structure) for commercial applications, although development is from fundamental materials science viewpoint this includes oversight of scale up and production trials. The work is heavily reliant on…
Polymer and Composites Engineering, Manufacture and Usage of these Materials
Expert has extensive experience in the design, manufacture and use of polymeric and composite materials. He has specific expertise in both thermoplastic and thermosetting composites and in the use of composites in the oil and gas industry. His experience includes…
Mechanical Properties, Materials Science, Polymer Science, Fracture, Failure Analysis
Expert has worked in this field for 30 years. His PhD concerned discontinuous fibre composite properties and fracture behaviour. He has published extensively in this area. He worked in research, production, product development and management in the chemical industry -…
Analysis, FEA, CFD, Medical Devices, Heat Transfer, Elastomers, Diffusion, Solar, Coupled Systems
Real invention and innovation most often springs from cross-fertilization and analogies from broad experience, quite apart from an entire career in a narrow field. See, for instance, Holyak and Thagard, "Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought". Expert is a broad…
Rheology, Nanotechnology, Particulate/Multiphase Processes, Chemical Engineering.
Expert operates his contract research & development small business incorporated in 1990 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Expert's professional experience spanning over four decades in chemical engineering has focused around the broad areas of particulate/multiphase processes and rheology. Chemical engineering…
Composites, Manufacturing, Design, Polymer, Stress Analysis, Fracture, Failure, Mechanical Behaviour
Expert's field of expertise is mechanics of solids, fracture, failure and stress analysis, manufacturing and characterisation of advanced materials with special focus on composites in aerospace, automotive and medical applications using both experimental and simulation techniques. Part of her research…
Process Plant Design and De-bottlenecking, Gas Phase Polymerization and Material Handling
Expert has two decades of process plant expertise with significant proficiency developed in polyethylene and polypropylene technology, process evaluation and plant design. Expert has applied his process engineering knowledge to improvements, optimization, trouble-shooting and projects in chemical and petrochemical plant…
Thermosetting Polymers, Product Development Process, New Business Development
Expert is a nationally recognized authority in thermosetting polymers. He has developed a fundamental understanding of thermosetting polymers including detailed experience in the rheology of curing systems (chemorheology), cure kinetics, physical property measurements, dielectric measurements of curing, and process development.…