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Pipeline and Fixed Equipment Structural Integrity Engineering
Expert is the Owner and Principal Engineer at an engineering consultancy located in Texas. He has 45+ years of domestic and International experience, including 30+ years in pipeline integrity management with Sunoco Logistics and Marathon Oil. He is a Registered…
Materials Engineering, Polymers, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Corrosion, and Adhesion Science
Expertise in chemistry, materials science, metals, polymers, corrosion, coatings and packaging. Expert has over 20 years of experience working as a technical consultant in materials engineering, polymers, metallurgy, chemistry, corrosion and adhesion science. She has been an advisor to companies…
Collision Investigation, Vehicle Damage Appraisals
Expert is a licensed Motor Vehicle Damage Appraiser by the NCDOI and has been in the business of appraising damaged vehicles since August 2003. He is a current member of the NCDOI External Appraiser and Repair Task Force Training in…
Materials, Processes and Hermeticity Testing of Microelectronics for Aerospace and Medical Implants
He has demonstrated expertise in hermetic sealing and leak testing processes for cavity style packaged microcircuits intended for high reliability military, aerospace and Class III medical implants. He has worked as a hermeticity consultant for prominent military and aerospace companies…
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…
Resistance Welding, Laser Welding, Arc Welding, Ultrasonic Welding, Brazing, and Soldering
He has extensive experience in brazing starting with his PhD (Penn State) in brazing of structural ceramics. He worked on the Alumnia-Titanium system using an active braze alloy of Ag-Cu-Ti composition. Active brazing has found wide acceptance in brazing of…
Weld Structure, Tanks, Vessels
Expert (pronounced ma-kit-ka, ) has over 35 years experience in practical applications requiring consideration of materials, toughness, impact energy and resistance, tensile strength, yield strength, and ductility of metals. This includes experience with properties of welds and weldments, and ASME…
Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Processing, Materials Failure Analysis
Expert has gained extensive experience in the uses of ferrous metals and alloys (carbon and alloy steel, high strength steel, structural steel, heat resistant steel), non-ferrous metals and alloys, superalloys, stainless steels (austenitic, ferritic, martensitic, and precipitation hardening grades), tool…
Engineering Materials
Expert has devoted most of his 35-year career to the application primarily of metals and other materials such as polymers, ceramics, composite materials, and electronic materials; he has also designed and manufactured machines and other structures. His expertise includes the…