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Renewable Energy, Project Management, Structural Analysis and Design, Fiberglass
Expert is currently an independent consultant for the renewable energy industry, and for multiple engineering, manufacturing and construction companies. He manages tasks ranging from interacting with clients, financiers, stakeholders and regulatory bodies, to serving as an expert authority in technical…
Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, Failure Analysis, Materials Selection, and Materials Design
Expert has a Ph.D in Industrial Metallurgy and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering -- specifically, in mechanical behavior and performance of metals and alloys -- from the University of Birmingham, England. His research interests include mechanical behavior of materials-microstructure-deformation processing relations,…
Metallurgical Engineering, Failure Analysis, Heat Treatment, Supplier Development and Coatings
He has performed over 500 failure analysis of components which fractured due to fatigue. This has included both low cycle and high cycle fatigue failures due to mechanical, thermal mechanical and environmentally enhanced fatigue. He has specified and developed various…
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…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…
Metal Finishing; Anodizing to Zinc Plating – Processing, Design, Engineering, NAPCAP, ISO
Expert has been in the metal finishing business since 1980. With more than 30 years direct experience in aluminum anodizing, he specializes in plant deign and engineering, and installation and training. He is bilingual (English and Spanish). An expert troubleshooter.…
Corrosion of Metals and Aging of Nonmetals
Working in major corporations, the Expert has over thirty years experience in research and engineering relative to the corrosion of bare and coated metals, and the deterioration of nonmetallics. He has developed alloys and engineered designs to prevent the corrosion…
Metallurgy, Material Science, Failure Analysis, Microscopy, X-ray
Expert has successfully worked with a variety of industrial clients to develop bases for process and product development in solidification processing, deformation processing and heat treatment of Al alloys. Specific applications have been semi-solid metal (SSM) forming, deformation processing of…
Concrete Technology, FRC, HPC, HVFA, SCC, Use of Byproducts in Cement-based Materials
He has used his 20 years of research experience in concrete technology to utilize other materials, fine aggregates (sand) and coarse aggregates, in concrete. He has explored the possibility of using coal fly ash, bottom ash, waste foundry sand, and…
Titanium and Titanium Alloy Applications, High-Strength Weldable Titanium Alloys, Hot Rolls, etc.
He took part in the development of high strength weldable titanium alloys for sea water application, Ti-Ni shape memory alloys for tube connections and vessel sealings, technology of hot processing and surface improvement of titanium alloys, application of titanium for…