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Expert in Metallurgical Engineering
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forensic engineering expert
forensic materials failure analysis expert
electron microscopy expert
energy dispersive X-ray analysis expert |
Expert has 20 years of experience in providing effective forensic materials failure analysis. His knowledge enables him to apply the data obtained from auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray nondestructive testing, chemical analysis, metallography, scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersive X-ray analysis to the task at hand. To fully use the results from the scanning electron microscope, Expert has a comprehensive understanding of fracture surface topographies and how they are related to the underlying microstructures. His extensive background in metallography and microstructure analysis, including quantitative metallography of many different metals, enables him to determine the effect underlying microstructures of materials on the surface topographies. |
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metal mechanical behavior expert
metallurgy expert
physical metallurgy expert
steel annealing expert
steel corrosion expert
steel failure expert
steel failure analysis expert
steel quenching expert
steel tempering expert
grain boundary expert
heat treatment expert
ferrous metal annealing expert
metal property expert |
Expert uses data from gathering methods combined with hands-on experience and technical understanding of materials processing. He has worked with steel annealing, steel finishing material, steel forming, steel foundry, steel heat treatment, steel hot forging, steel machining, steel manufacturing, steel processing, steel product quality assurance, steel quenching, steel selection, steel swedging, steel tempering, welding process, bainite, hot-rolled steel, hydrogen-induced steel cracking, steel corrosion, metal alloy, metal component fabrication, metal contamination, metal drilling, metal fabrication, metal failure, metal failure analysis, metal forming, metal grinding, metal machining, metal mechanical behavior, metal milling operation, metal polishing, metal processing, and metal turning to determine the cause and origin of the failure and ways of preventing similar future failures.
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fracture analysis expert
fracture mechanics expert
fracture expert
fracture stress expert
fracture testing expert
metal-stress relieving expert |
As a routine part of a failure analysis, Expert uses fracture mechanics to ascertain the magnitude of the stresses present. He develops data necessary to perform fracture mechanics from the use of common metallurgical tools such as visual examination, metallography, scanning electron microscopy, Auger analysis, energy dispersive X-ray analysis, and micro-hardness testing. He finds that fracture mechanics are very useful in failures involving fatigue. He will use fracture mechanics when no other methods are available for determining the fracture toughness of a material. He has used fracture mechanics in the evaluation of both metals and non-metals.
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metal failure expert
metal failure analysis expert
alloy normalizing expert
stainless steel failure analysis expert |
Failure analysis of metals is a normal part of Expert's work. His extensive experience as a consultant and with manufacturing companies has given him unique insight into heavy metals failure and the design and manufacturing changes that can be done to eliminate failures in the future. To accurately determine the cause of failure of a metal, he uses all of the techniques necessary, such as metallography, chemical analysis, mechanical testing, macro-etching, metal alloy, metal contamination, metal failure, metal mechanical behavior, metal property, metallurgical testing, scanning electron microscopy, surface analysis, welding failure analysis, steel heat treatment, welding quality, welding testing, and surface analysis. This information is then used by Merlin, along with fracture mechanics and information about the processing of the metal to determine the cause of metal failure. Examples of metal processing include electroplating, steel heat treatment, steel tempering, steel annealing, sheet metal forming, sheet metal fabrication, metal processing, metal forming, metal grinding, metal machining, metal turning, and the environment that the metal was used in.
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steel expert
tempering expert
clean steel expert
hydrogen-induced steel cracking expert
metal heat treatment expert
steel heat treatment expert |
Expert has extensive experience in the heat treatment of iron and steel. His experience includes spheroidized annealing, inter-critical annealing, pearlitic annealing, normalizing, carbonitriding, carburizing, quenching and tempering, steel tempering, mar-quenching, austempering, and stress relieving. His experience includes the planning, equipment selection, construction supervision, operator training, and procedure manual preparation for new steel heat treating facilities.
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microstructure analysis expert
metallography expert |
Expert uses metallography as the primary tool in the practice of metallurgical engineering. He uses metallography to determine the microstructures of both ferrous and nonferrous metals. He uses metallography as the critical tool in determining the correct steel heat treatment, steel annealing, steel quenching, welding process, welding quality, grain boundary determinations, nonferrous metal annealing, microstructure analysis, phase relationships, and quantitative metallography using Optimus image analysis, metal-related quality assurance, and metal-related quality control.
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metallurgical engineering expert
metallurgical testing expert |
Expert's practice of metallurgical engineering as a registered professional engineer has been in physical and mechanical metallurgy of ferrous and nonferrous metals. His experience has been in providing metallurgical engineering support for manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, quality control, and design engineering. He has also been involved in modifying and developing manufacturing processes to achieve the desired metal characteristics in the finished product.
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structure-property relationship expert |
One of Expert's stronger fields is relating the structure of metals and alloys to the physical and mechanical behavior of the materials during production and final use. He obtains the metal and alloy structural data by the use of metallography. This data is in turn related to the composition, hardness, fracture toughness, fatigue properties, and mechanical strength of the metal or alloy. This information is in turn used to determine how and why products fail during use, through the application of fracture mechanics, metal failure analysis, and forensic materials failure analysis.
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Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Saint Paul, Minnesota; Rochester, Minnesota; Burnsville, Minnesota; Eden Prairie, Minnesota; and Minnetonka, Minnesota.
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1967
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Metallurgical Engineering
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University of Idaho
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1985 to
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(Undisclosed)
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Consultant
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1977 to 1985
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Owatonna Tool Company
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Engineer
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1974 to 1977
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E.F. Johnson Company
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Engineer
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1968 to 1972
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Olympic Scientific
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Engineer
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1967 to 1968
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Boeing Airplane Company
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Engineer
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Associations/Societies
Expert is a member of several professional organizations, including ASM International, the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, and the Metallurgical Society of the AIME.
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Licenses/Certifications
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Minnesota and Arkansas.
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Expert provides on-site services in support of identification of weaknesses in processes and controls that lead to failures of manufactured products. Processes that often need on-site reviews are welding, heat treating, forging, hot and warm forming, and cleaning. He has inspected and made recommendations to clients at clients' and suppliers' facilities in both the U.S. and Far East that have resulted in better quality products at the same or lower manufacturing costs.
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As a member of the Intota consultant network,
Expert is a specialist who provides technical consulting to corporate, legal and government clients. Expert provides professional consulting as a Metallurgical Engineering Consultant. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company,
or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract.
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Intota experts can serve as expert witnesses or litigation consultants offering expert testimony, expert advice, litigation support,
forensic services, and related expert witness services. Expert can serve as an expert witness or litigation consultant in intellectual property (patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright),
product liability, and insurance matters. Expert may provide forensic expert witness testimony, litigation consulting services, forensic investigation,
and forensic testing if appropriate in litigation areas as a Metallurgical Engineering Expert Witness.
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ask the experts services particulars by submitting an expert request.
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Expert serves as a resource to
Intota Market Research Services
for customized marketing research in industries or areas related to
Metallurgical Engineering.
Experts are an invaluable source of overall industry insight as well as insight into specific companies and firms for
custom business to business (b2b) and industrial market research. Intota uses analyst and
consultant resources from Guideline whose Research Directors manage the research and analysis of the qualitative
and quantitative data as well as report writing for the custom studies. The methods and tools
used by Intota market research combine the insights of technical experts and industry insiders with secondary
research to provide the custom b2b and industrial market research you need.
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Other Skills and Services
Merlin, through Expert's Firm and associate companies, provides a complete line of materials testing and evaluation, including metals, polymers, and special tooling materials. The following tools and instrumentation are available for characterizing materials: atomic force microscopy, Auger analysis, scanning electron microscopy, optical microscopy, metal chemical analysis by spectrographic analysis and x-ray fluorescence, hardness testing, tensile testing, Charpy impact testing, Fourier Transform infrared analysis, gas chromatography, mass spectrograph, and image analysis.
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