Expert Details
Threaded Fasteners Reliability
ID: 108336
Michigan, USA
THREADED FASTENER RELIABILITY. Expert understands the tightening process, loosening phenomena, and constructing practical engineering models (mathematical and graphical). These are technical areas where he has been able to assist others in their engineering designs and assembly process specifications.
THREADED FASTENER FAILURE ANALYSIS. A fastener can fail as a result of many possible singular or combined influences. Expert's experience includes failures due to metallurgical, heat-treat, fabrication/processing, installation, structural design, as well as service load and environmental influences.
MULTICOMPONENT SENSOR; MULTICOMPONENT SENSOR DESIGN. Expert has over 25 years experience in transducer design. His six component (three force, three moment) automotive and truck test wheel sensors are used by major US and European vehicle manufacturers for gathering load data and their reliability programs.
THREADED FASTENER TORQUE-TENSION TEST EQUIPMENT; THREADED FASTENER TESTING; THREADED FASTENER TESTING MACHINE; THREADED FASTENER TESTING MACHINE DESIGN. Expert has designed test equipment capable of establishing torque-tension performance standards for fasteners. The most advanced of these designs, the RS Technologies LTD 9504 system, provides direct reading of underhead and thread friction torques, as well as torque-tension coefficients. His testing laboratory has been accredited by AZLA for calibration of force and torque measurement devices.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1963 | Degree: BS | Subject: Mechanical Engineering | Institution: University of Michigan |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 1992 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Founder, President, Technical Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1991 to 1992 | Employer: | Title: Independent Consultant | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1968 to 1991 | Employer: GSE, Incorporated | Title: Founder, President, Technical Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1965 to 1968 | Employer: Eaton Corporation | Title: Project Engineer - Stress & Reliability | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1963 to 1965 | Employer: United Aircraft Corporation | Title: Flight Test Engineer | Department: Structural Measurement Group |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Expert is a Registered Professional Engineer, and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASM International, Engineering Society of Detroit, and the Society for Experimental Mechanics. He is active in the Industrial Fasteners Institute and the Bolting Technology Council, and has presented seminars and technical papers at local and national technical society meetings. |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has been granted over 25 U.S. and international patents for transducer and instrumentation inventions. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
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| German |
Fields of Expertise
multicomponent sensor, multicomponent sensor design, threaded fastener, threaded fastener engineering, threaded fastener failure analysis, threaded fastener reliability, threaded fastener testing, threaded fastener testing machine, threaded fastener testing machine design, threaded fastener tightening, threaded fastener torque-tension test equipment, automobile reliability testing, Industrial Fasteners Institute, torque testing, airframe stress analysis, industrial fastener, screw thread formation, screw thread design, screw thread inspection, acme screw thread, screw thread form, screw thread measurement, thread rolling, engineering design, Mohr stress circle diagram, metrication, hexagonal-head bolt, sheet-metal screw, square-head bolt, over-the-road vibration, load-cell design, high-strength bolt, stress measurement, strain measurement, mechanical compression, torque transducer design, human-factors industrial design, metal failure, screw thread, fracture stress, pressure sensor, torque transducer, coach screw, elastic property, wood screw, Weibull density function, ultimate tensile strength, torsional fatigue, torquemeter, toggle bolt, tiebolt, tensile strength, structural bolt, stress sensor, stress analysis, strain gage, staybolt, statistical process control, statics, square nut, socket-head screw, slotted-head screw, set screw, sensor, screw, round-head bolt, rock bolt, pressure transducer, pressure measurement, solid mechanical property, locknut, load cell, instantaneous strain, hexagonal nut, hardness, fracture mechanics, extensometer, environmental-stress screening, endurance testing, electronic display instrument, creep, cap screw, biomedical sensor