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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…
Refractory Engineer
Expert is the Founding Director of his company. His family owned a refractory installation company, Quad City Refractories (Coal Valley, IL), and employed him as a mason's apprentice when he was sixteen years old. He worked with QCR as a…
Powder Metallurgy, Powder Characterization (e.g., Particle Size and Surface Area Measurement), and Testing
As the manager of a physical testing laboratory for over 25 years, he has applied his physics and metallurgy background to develop expertise in powder metallurgy and mechanical property testing of metals, as well as in various forms of powder…
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…
Ceramic, Graphite & Composites. Forensic engineering in glass & ceramic.
He has a comprehensive ceramic component manufacturing experience. This encompasses everything from ceramic materials and process development, production scale up and running of a production operation, as well as marketing and sales, excelling in all areas. He has worked in…
Combustion, Heat Transfer, Process Furnaces, Incineration, Air Pollution Control, etc.
He had developed and monitored tests to demonstrate that the air pollution control system operate as designed. Modifications were made to air pollution control systems to improve their operation to meet the regulatory requirements. The air pollution control system incorporates…
Glass Technology and Manufacturing
SODA-LIME GLASS MANUFACTURING; GLASS CONTAINER. Expert has expertise in many aspects of the commercial container and tableware manufacturing of soda lime glass. His 27 year technical management career and six years as an independent consultant has focused on all aspects…
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…
Refractories and Ceramics
Expert has had extensive experience in industry as well as academia in the area of advanced ceramics. He was a professor of Ceramic Engineering for 12 years, and has been a Summer Researcher at three national labs. He has been…