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Paint, Coating Consulting, Failure Analysis, Laboratory Testing, Inspection, Expert Witness
Expert has been the chair, and has participated in SSPC and NACE surface preparation committees regarding paint. He is the USA delegate to ISO TC35 SC12 "Surface Preparation prior to Paint Application". Expert is familiar with most USA and European…
Advanced Materials, Surface Engineering, High-Temperature Coatings, Vacuum Technology and Analysis
Expert has over 30 years of leadership experience in advanced materials engineering, surface science, and vacuum-based technologies. As Vice-President of Research & Development at Surface Engineered Products Corp./Westaim, he spearheaded the invention and commercialization of high-temperature coatings for applications in…
Corrosion, Materials, & Chemicals: Oil & Gas Production and Wastewater Treatment Facilities
Expert is experienced in materials engineering, corrosion control and mitigation, failure analysis, root cause analysis, materials selection, non-metallic materials, protective coatings, cathodic protection, environmental control, specifications and standards. He has made contributions in pipeline corrosion integrity management, risk assessment, risk-based…
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…
Titanium & Aluminum Anodize, All Plating and Finishing
Expert is an inventor with the following: USPTO Patents Awarded: Pat. No. (Undisclosed) Pat. No. (Undisclosed) Pat. No. (Undisclosed) USPTO Patents Pending: App. No. (Undisclosed) App. No. (Undisclosed) Expert has thirty-five years of Working and Consulting in Electrochemical Engineering, Chemistry…
Paint Adhesion; Pretreatment Conversion Coating; Troubleshooting
Expert has academic degrees on both steel and polymeric coating and 20- year experience in metal finishing industrial in US; so, he knows pros-and-cons of painting systems, such as surface profile, surface preparation, mechanical finishing, chemical finishing, all type coatings…
Thin Film Deposition, Specializing in Reactive Sputtering
Expert D. Expert has extensive experience in magnetron sputtering of aluminum and in the high-rate reactive sputtering of aluminum compounds such as aluminum oxide. He was the first to show that aluminum oxide with excellent film properties can be reactively…
Metal Finishing, Parts Cleaning, Electroplating, Electroforming
Expert has production experience with cyanide copper, pyrophosphate, and acid copper plating baths. He has worked in a laboratory environment with both the fluoroborate and alkaline non-cyanide baths. He has used these baths for PWB plating, wafer plating, electroforming, plating…
Process Engineering, Inorganic Chemicals: Chloralkali, Sulfuric Acid, SO2, and Fertilizers
Expert’s graduate work (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) was in adsorption of gases in molecular sieve zeolites. The work included exhaustive experimentation on equilibrium and kinetics of adsorption and included calculation of adsorption energy from electrostatic and van der Waals forces acting…
Corrosion and Metallurgical Failure Analysis
Expert notes that corrosion is a major problem that affects many industries. Expert has spent over forty years studying and solving corrosion problems in the construction, aerospace, defense, petroleum, utility and related industries. He was also the technical editor of…