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Epoxy, Urethane and Waterborne Technologies: Construction, Wood, Coatings and Adhesives
Expert's core specialty is epoxy flooring and waterborne urethane coating. He has very strong experience in formulations, product recommendation, product failure, and and problem-solving. He is an expert in the curing agents utilized in epoxy adhesive formulations. He has honed…
Safety Consulting, Safety Engineering, Recreation Safety, Ergonomics, Fall Protection
Expert currently serves as a general safety and health consultant as a safety engineer, and has done so since 1978. This has involved General Safety Engineering Consulting with emphasis on worker safety, industrial product safety, third party safety, accident prevention,…
Mechanics (Stress, Dynamics, Test), Modeling (FEA, CFD, Chemical), Machine Design, Controls
At Cessna, Expert designed the pressure cabin, empennage, and main spar carry through for the 441 Conquest and 650 Citation 2. His other engineering responsibilities included stress measurement (strain gauges, brittle coatings), solids modeling (NASTRAN), and FAA certification report authoring.…
Fastener Engineering, Fastener Failure Analysis, Fastener Quality Evaluation, Forensic Analysis.
Expert specializes in: Fastener Failure Analysis, Training, Operations Improvement, Quality Systems and Continuous Improvements, Technical Marketing, Cost Reductions, Fastener Deproliferation, ISO 9000 and Product Manual Preparation and Updating, Customer Satisfaction Metrics and Analysis, Process Mapping and Root Cause Analysis, Calculating…
Fasteners, Latching mechanisms, structures, aircraft decompression.
Expert has extensive experience in the nonlinear analysis of structures and metals behavior. He has developed algorithms that enable accurate nonlinear finite element analysis of metallic components and assemblies up to the point of failure. As Chairman of the joint…
Surface Texture and Operational Characteristics of Machines
The expert is most experienced in the subset of surface science related to mathematics and mechanics of surface irregularities on micro- and macro scales and their contact interaction. In addition he has experience in the field of surface metrology and…
Biomaterials and Product Development R&D for Orthopedic, Cardiovascular, and Other Implants
Expert has helped assemble, and been lead author on 510(k) and IDE applications to the FDA. This has often included telephone conversations, and occasionally personal visits, with the FDA to discuss unique aspects of the devices and/or materials in the…
Machine Tools, Semiconductor Process Equipment, Machine Dynamics, Metrology
In his research on structural dynamics, Expert employs the techniques of finite element analysis extensively. He regularly uses ANSYS, NASTRAN, Pro/Engineer, and SDRC Master Series in analyzing a variety of static, transient, thermal, and eigenvalue problems. Examples of his recent…
Web Coating Technology
Expert has spent over 28 years in the web coating industry. He has experience in wax coating, hot melt, solvent coating, solventless coating, and emulsion coating on a wide variety of webs, from light weight films and foils to SBS…
Polymer Rheology and Plastics Processing
Expert is currently working on constitutive modeling of the extensional behavior of molten plastics. He has developed models that allow the behavior in extension to be inferred from measurements in exponential shear. The material behavior in exponential shear is measured…