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Advanced Materials, Surface Engineering, Powder Metallurgy and Composite Materials
As an expert in Material Science, he specializes in advanced powder metallurgy and wrought materials, including cemented carbides and ceramic-based composites, refractory metals, chromium-based and copper-based materials, titanium and nickel alloys; as well as materials for soft and hard magnetic…
Iron and Steel Industry: Strategy, Projects & Operation Management, Sintering, Material Handling
Mr. V. K. Expert is a highly accomplished and performance driven, steel Industry professional with 38 years experience, at board level and non-board level positions, in various areas such as business strategy and planning, operations and maintenance management, project management,…
Thermal Processing of Advanced Materials.
He has extensive experience with the removal of binder systems from ceramic systems during post-processing, including safety, code compliance and practical aspects. Binders worked with range from "classic" organic binders to "catalytic" binders (e.g. BASF Catamold). He designed, sold, engineered…
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Expert has extensively worked on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. He has developed new products that enable effective flow control and filtering based on CFD modeling, improving performance up to twice the efficiency compared to previous designs. He has conducted…
Refractories and Ceramics: Raw Materials, Manufacturing and Applications
During the last twenty years, he has been working on the development, production and quality control of kiln furniture for firing a wide variety of ceramic products. He is experienced in the manufacture of cordierite or cordierite-mullite, both standard and…
Steel Foundry, Steel Manufacturing, Alloy Steel, Abrasion Resistant & Ductile Iron Castings
Chromium-molybdenum steel and iron castings are used in various engineering industries where high tensile strength, toughness and abrasion resistance is of prime importance. For example, in mining industry, different parts of a P&H Shovel are made of chromium- molybdenum steel…
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…
Corrosion in Plant, Buildings, HVAC, Hi-Temp, Surveys/Failure Analysis; Expert Witness, Seminars
Expert has over 35 years of experience in practical aspects of materials utilization involving steels, stainless and high alloy steels, nickel and nickel alloys, copper and copper alloys, aluminum and aluminum alloys, and titanium and titanium alloys in many corrosive…
Ceramic/Metal Seal, Glass/Metal Seal, Thin & Thick Films, Coating, Effective Manufacturing, Analysis
Expert has in-depth expertise of moly-manganese metallization on alumina, zirconia, mullite, sapphire, and others. His metallization knowledge includes Mo/Mn, W/Ti, and active alloy brazing, and has extensive experience with various soldering and brazing methods. His educational background covers the theory…
Powder Metallurgy, Magnetic Alloy
Since 1980, Expert has been instrumental in the development of new magnetic alloys, their processing, improvement in their properties, and preparation of specifications for their usage. He has also assisted in marketing these materials and recommending their usage for new,…