Expert Details

Reliability and Liability of Plastic Products

ID: 725298 Netherlands

Request Expert

He has taught polymer selection at Delft University, he has carried out polymer selection for industry and he was expert witness in a number of court cases about polymer selection.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1970 Degree: MSc Subject: Mechanical Engineering Institution: Delft University of technology

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1981 to 2002 Employer: Delft university of technology Title: Full Professor Department: Industrial Design Engineering
Responsibilities:
He carried out research in the field of reliability of plastic products (UV-degradation, fatigue, viscoelasticity)
He taught Design for Reliability, Designing in Plastics, Fluid mechanics and Heat Transfer.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1977 to 1981 Employer: Philips Domestic Appliances Title: Group leader Department: Domestic Appliances
Responsibilities:
He managed R&D in: Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Joining, Precision Machining
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1970 to 1977 Employer: Philips Research Title: researcher Department: Research Laboratories Eindhoven
Responsibilities:
He carried out research in composites and "Design for Reliability".

International Experience

Years Country / Region Summary
Years: 2004 to 2004 Country / Region: Russia Summary: Organizing and writing of a technical dossier for hip implants

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
KIVI
SPE
Publications and Patents Summary
He has 50 publications in Journals and Proceedings

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Expert witness in court cases about failure of plastic products.
Consultant to Delphi Automotive Systems about application of plastics.
Training / Seminars
Courses in Designing in Plastics.
SPE Failure Analysis seminar.

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
English He is fluent in English
German He is able to communicate in German
Russian He has over 15 years experience in visiting Russia and working with Russian co-workers in his laboratory.
French He was fluent in French, but did not use it for very many years

Fields of Expertise

polymer selection

Request Expert

Dev Tool:

Request: expert/reliability-and-liability-of-plastic-products
Matched Rewrite Rule: expert/([^/]+)(?:/([0-9]+))?/?$
Matched Rewrite Query: experts=reliability-and-liability-of-plastic-products&page=
Loaded Template: single-experts.php