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Metallurgical and Failure Investigations Caused by Corrosion, Degradation, Biological Activity, Fatigue, and Overload in Metallic/Non-Metallic Materials
After gaining a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics, Expert spent three years tertiary teaching, eight years of university research on materials and materials degradation, and, since 1985, consulting for industry on failure analysis, corrosion mitigation, and materials selection. Since 2001,…
Materials Science and Engineering; Mechanical Design
Expert is a Registered Engineer in Indiana. He graduated from Valparaiso University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a second major in Chemistry, and then from The University of Notre Dame with a Master of Materials Science…
Corrosion, Materials Selection, Fabrication
Expert has worked in the area of sulfuric acid plant corrosion and materials selection for the past 18 years and has been involved in the materials selection of some of the worlds largest sulfuric acid plants. Expert has performed failure…
Diving Accident Investigation
Bob notes that corrosion is a major problem that affects many industries. Bob 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…
Stainless Steels, Nickel Alloys, Corrosion, Materials Selection, Welding, High Temp Alloys
Expert has helped engineers select the most suitable and cost-effective stainless steel, nickel alloy or other materials such as titanium for a wide variety of applications over his long career. The selection of the appropriate alloy must consider many factors…
Metals, Plastic and Ceramic Component Failure Analysis
As an aerospace scientist at NASA, Expert. Expert investigated the properties of alloys and their failure mode. As a college instructor he taught classes in failure analysis, corrosion, chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, and taught engineers the knowledge required to obtain…
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…
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…
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…
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…