Principal Industries Served:
- Metallurgical
- Energy
- Transportation
- Chemical
Education:
This expert has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Materials Science from the University of Virginia.
This expert received a B.S. in Engineering from Loyola College in Baltimore, MD.
Expertise and Services:
Component Corrosion Failure Expert Consultant Resume
This expert specializes in the research of metallurgical factors. Those areas include localized corrosion, environment assisted cracking phenomena, environmentally acceptable corrosion inhibition, novel corrosion inhibition, and corrosion sensing. Other related fields of expertise for this consultant include corrosion of steel in concrete, deterministic factors in pit initiation, life prediction using empirical modeling approaches, and environmental degradation of materials. Further expertise of this consultant includes corrosion and corrosion controls of cast aluminum automotive wheels, automotive corrosion control issues, materials selection issues with new mineral processing facilities, and electrochemical coating methods. Product performance analyses, pipeline failure, product failures and product compatibility assessments are related fields of specialty for this expert. This expert also has experience with failure analyses, process development, product testing issues, and product compatibility assessments. Oxide film removal, development of an environmentally compliant multi-functional coating for aerospace and military application using molecular and nano-engineering methods, corrosion control and assessments of U.S. army assets are also areas of expertise for this consultant. Other specialties of this expert include the use of microalloying to improve resistance to low temperature sensitization in non-heat treatable Al-Mg alloys, microelectrode array for electrochemical sensing of localized corrosion, localized corrosion and stress corrosion cracking of friction stir welds in aluminum alloys. Science-based approaches to Chromium-free coating systems for DOD applications, and microelectrode array for electrochemical sensing of localized corrosion.
Additional Experience:
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
U.S. Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories, Superior Industries, Inc., Horton Emergency Vehicles, Inc., Svedala Industries, Faraday Technologies, Inc., Aerogen, ARCO Aluminum, Holophane Lighting, Inc. American Sealants, Nucor Steel, QED Technologies, Circle-Prosco, Inc. Fusite/Emerson Electric, BFGoodrich, PCC Airfoils
