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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…
Mechanics of Composites, Micromechanics, Nanocomposites, Modeling, Probability
For the past 30 years, The Expert proposed and developed a micromechanics methodology to analyze the wide class of statical and dynamical, local and nonlocal, linear and nonlinear micromechanical problems (thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, piezoelectricity, conductivity) of composite materials with deterministic…
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…
Welding, Fabrication, Failure Analysis conventional and nuclear stainless & nickel base
Expert learned that stainless steel parts in a carbon steel world are welded to another metal. Success requires attention, not only to chemistry mixtures (metallurgy) (Ferrite Diagrams), but also to mechanical forces before and during welding, as well as service…
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…
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…
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…
Mechanical Properties of Metals
Expert has studied aluminum alloys from the 2xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx series and studied their grain size, tensile properties, heat treatments, corrosion resistance, and fatigue behavior (both room temperature stress - life (S-N) and crack growth behavior). His work…
Product Development, Sensors & Actuators, Innovation Strategy, IoT Strategy, Failure Analysis
Expert has experience developing products at the device level and at the consumer level. He does so by using the existing concepts and theories of physics, chemistry, electrochemistry, and materials engineering. His experience includes developing sensors and algorithms for custom…
Corrosion in Plant, Buildings, HVAC, Hi-Temp, Surveys/Failure Analysis; Expert Witness, Seminars
Expert has over 35 years of experience in practical aspects of materials utilization involving steels, stainless and high alloy steels, nickel and nickel alloys, copper and copper alloys, aluminum and aluminum alloys, and titanium and titanium alloys in many corrosive…