Expert Details
Corrosion Analysis & Control and Related Metallurgical Failure Analyses
ID: 731872
Virginia, USA
See his diverse mechanical and materials engineering experience of over 40 plus years in USAF, Ingersoll-Rand, Honeywell, University of Delaware, Battelle Laboratories, CC Technologies, Henkels & McCoy and Expert Materials & Mechanical Engineering, Inc. for details. His CV also provides additional information.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1986 | Degree: MS | Subject: Applied Materials (experimental thesis on crevice corrosion of stainless alloys) | Institution: University of Delaware |
| Year: 1972 | Degree: MBA | Subject: Business Administration | Institution: Golden Gate University |
| Year: 1968 | Degree: BS | Subject: Mechanical Engineering | Institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2004 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President | Department: |
Responsibilities:He provides engineering expert witness services to attorneys and consulting engineering services to industrial and insurance clients in his areas of expertise. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1995 to 2004 | Employer: Henkels & McCoy, Inc. | Title: Program Manager | Department: Engineering/Richmond Office |
Responsibilities:He supervised the work of four corrosion control technicians and personally completed root-cause failure analyses in his areas of expertise. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1992 to 1995 | Employer: DNV GL (formerly Cortest Corrosion Technology, Inc.) | Title: Senior Engineer | Department: |
Responsibilities:For most of the period he provided corrosion engineering services as part of a team employed in Alaska to develop an analytical model to predict likely locations of corrosion on buried portions of the Trans Alaskan Pipeline. He later completed root-cause failure analyses involving corrosion and metallurgical questions in the Ohio office. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1985 to 1992 | Employer: Battelle Memorial Institute | Title: Research Scientist | Department: Corrosion Section |
Responsibilities:He specified and completed laboratory corrosion and metallurgical tests, made recommendations for selecting corrosion resistant alloys, completed root-cause failure analyses, developed and presented a training course on corrosion for government personnel and edited a newsletter on various engineering material topics for DOD personnel. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1981 to 1985 | Employer: University of Delaware | Title: Graduate student | Department: Materials Science and Engineering |
Responsibilities:He completed course work plus a thesis for a MS degree in applied materials. His experimental thesis was on crevice corrosion of stainless steel alloys. He also completed a summer internship with Haynes, Inc. in Indiana during the period. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1974 to 1981 | Employer: Honeywell, Inc. (formerly Allied Chemical, Corp.) | Title: Reliability Engineer | Department: Project and Reliability Engineering Dept. |
Responsibilities:He provided mechanical engineering services to assure the operational reliability of stationary equipment, e.g.,steam boilers, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, piping and valves, in a typical 24/7 functioning chemical manufacturing plant. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1972 to 1974 | Employer: Ingersoll-Rand Company | Title: Mechanical Project Engineer | Department: Turbo Compressor Dept. |
Responsibilities:He provided mechanical engineering services as part of a team to design, manufacture and shop test large horsepower centrifugal compressors. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1968 to 1972 | Employer: U.S. Air Force | Title: Project/Test Engineer | Department: Liquid Rocket Division |
Responsibilities:He developed and supervised completion of test programs to evaluate the performance of very small thrust, liquid fuel rockets to be used for attitude control on space satellites. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 1968 to 1972 | Agency: U.S. Air Force | Role: Project/Test Engineer | Description: See his experience record at Edwards Air Force Base while on active duty. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| NACE International NSPE ASM International |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| P.E. in Virginia and Delaware Certified Materials Selection and Design Specialist (through AMPP, formerly NACE International) |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| He has 7 publications on corrosion topics besides his MS thesis on crevice corrosion. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| He has served as an engineering expert witness in several legal cases in his areas of expertise. See the attached list of testimony provided and attorneys assisted when testimony was not required. Approximately 40% 0f the cases have been with plaintiffs' lawyers and the remainder with defense lawyers. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| He has presented live short courses (multiple times) for continuing education of professional engineers (P.E.'s) on corrosion control tactics and on completing root-cause metallurgical failure analyses. He has also developed and written, on-line courses in these areas ( see the courses at www.suncam.com) for the same purpose. |
| Vendor Selection |
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| While at Honeywell, he specified and sought and reviewed competitive bids from vendors to supply various chemical manufacturing equipment including pumps, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, automatic control valves and various types of piping. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| He understands the economic importance and difficulties faced by owners of continuously operating plants, e.g. chemical processing, electric power generation and petrochemical processing, and the several engineering tasks needed to keep the associated equipment in such facilities fully reliable. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| He has completed several discounted, life-cycle cost analyses to evaluate the long-term costs of alternative purchase or design decisions. He has taught this methodology to engineers preparing to take the final examination for their professional engineer license. |
Fields of Expertise
aqueous corrosion, corrosion engineering, expert witness, NACE International, fatigue failure, ASM International, stainless steel failure analysis, chloride corrosion, metal alloy corrosion, equipment failure, chemical process equipment corrosion failure, chemical process equipment failure, mechanical metallurgy, welding failure analysis, corrosion failure analysis, machine component failure analysis, corrosion-resistant alloy, metal component design, chemical plant corrosion, forensic engineering, equipment failure analysis, chemical plant, equipment design, heat exchanger failure analysis, carbon steel corrosion, stainless steel corrosion, austenitic stainless steel corrosion, alloy corrosion, corrosion resistance, stress corrosion cracking, corrosion control, metal failure analysis, biological corrosion