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Expert in Sound, Vibration, and Dynamics
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Summary of Expertise:
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The employees of Expert's Firm have worked in many areas of applied acoustics for over 40 years. This has included the areas of audio, ultrasonics, structural acoustics, noise control and the design of quiet products, outdoor sound propagation, and machinery noise. Expert has applied his expertise to transducer design, sound/structure interaction, the noise generated by mechanisms, the use and design of acoustical materials, and the prediction of noise around factories, highways, and airports.
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The corporation can help with the excitation of vibration in structures by machinery mechanisms, by random forces such as turbulent flow and random impacts, and by sound waves. The direct response of the structure to excitation and the transmission of vibration from one structure to another have been involved in this work. Expert has found that the responses of realistic structures such as buildings, machine housings, and microelectronics systems are very scaleable. This has allowed him to transfer knowledge gained in one area to applications in other areas.
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The employees have experience with acoustical instrumentation. This has included sensors for measuring pressure, vibrational quantities such as displacement, velocity, and acceleration, acoustical quantities associated with anechoic and reverberant standardized rooms, and associated quantities like acoustical intensity and particle velocity. He has also worked with instruments for the processing of data from these sensors. Such instruments include sound level meters, vibration meters, spectrum analyzers, and PCs with data acquisition and signal processing boards.
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RH Expert employees use vibration as a major source of diagnostic information for both rotating and reciprocating machinery. They use signal processing methods of spectral analysis and time and frequency analysis of transient signals for extracting diagnostic information from machine components. These components have included diesel engines, transmissions, electrical motors, and flow control valves. Most of Expert's experience has been directed at reciprocating and transient motion machines for which standard "machinery monitoring" systems are ineffective.
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Expert's Firm works with companies to determine the "best sound" for their products. This is done by helping to frame questions for the focus groups that companies use to evaluate product features and attributes, coupled with jury (listening panel) studies to determine how the components in the product contribute to the acceptability of product sound. The study is carried out in a way that gives direct engineering guidance for the redesign of the various components in the product.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Boston, Massachusetts;
Worcester, Massachusetts;
Springfield, Massachusetts;
Lowell, Massachusetts;
Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Brockton, Massachusetts;
New Bedford, Massachusetts;
Hartford, Connecticut;
Manchester, New Hampshire;
and Providence, Rhode Island.
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1955
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Ph.D.
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Physics
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MIT
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1952
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A.B.
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Physics
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Evansville College
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1976 to
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(Undisclosed)
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Founder
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He is chairman and CEO of this consulting company
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1970 to 1995
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MIT
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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1970 to 1990
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Cambridge Collaborative, Inc.
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Founder
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1960 to 1970
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Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
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Corporate Vice President and Division Director (1964-67); Department Head (1960-64); Staff Scientist
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1956 to 1960
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University of Minnesota
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Electrical Engineering Department
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Assoc. Professor
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Associate Professor (1959-60); Assistant Professor (1957-58)
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Associations/Societies
Expert is Past President and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was an Owens-Corning Fellow in Acoustics at M.I.T. and an NSF Post Doctoral Fellow. Expert is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, INCE, Sigma Pi Sigma, and Sigma Xi.
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Publications and Patents Summary
He has written four books, more than 80 technical papers, and a large number of technical reports.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Grozier Publishing
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- MIT Press
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- Butterworths
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding your expert consulting needs.
Expert is available for consulting to corporate, legal and government clients.
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Expert is free.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has experience in locating vendors of:
vibration and sound sensors; signal conditioning; and signal analysis. He has access to catalogs to aid in vendor location.
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