Expert No. 128394 – DC / TX
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Consulting expert specializing in mechanical design engineering, with an emphasis in all phases of industrial equipment and machinery design, including fans, blowers, motors, generators, engines, couplings, gearboxes, dynamometers and rolling mills. Expertise includes: troubleshooting of aircraft gas turbine engines and accessories, auxiliary power units, rotary wing drive gearboxes and gear trains. Additional expertise in troubleshooting, machinery malfunctions and failures, and machinery accidents, including accidents leading to extensive property damage, injury, and death. Extensive experience in the use of vibration as a diagnostic tool. Also, experienced in high speed rotor balancing. Planning and executing heavy machinery lifts, evaluations of reinforced concrete foundations, and evaluations of fabricated machinery support structures, advanced vibration analysis and applications. Prior expert witness experience. Consultations and depositions.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Failures of large and costly machinery.
- Evaluate failures in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) motors and fans.
- Identify cause for plant-wide factory explosion (combustible dust and motor sparking).
- Fan failures due to catastrophic vibration levels in large ventilating drive motors and fans.
- Cold weather troubleshooting of excessive vibration in large 20-inch natural gas valve and piping.
- Washing machine patent infringements.
- Personal injury in an industrial machinery accident.
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Design heavy lift plans and prepare installation instructions for installation of 20,000 horsepower motor-generator set.
- Correct design failures in HVAC motors and fans.
- Determine cause of steel roll mill motor and mill vibration.
- Provide professional engineer certification of certain hardware.
- Recommend repairs of large motors used to drill ship propulsion and positioning.
- Provide troubleshooting of air conditioner manufacturing.
- Troubleshoot vibrations in large HVAC drive motors and fans, and then engineer and install specially designed damper hardware to correct vibrations.
- Assess equipment and machinery condition at refinery.
- Troubleshoot vibration in a large natural gas valve, and then recommend new valve with corrected design.
Licenses & Certifications:
| New York Professional Engineer |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Mechanical Engineering | Cornell University | |
| MS | Nuclear Engineering | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| BS | Mechanical Engineering | Rutgers University |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Society
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society
- Sigma Xi Society
Other Career Highlights:
| Author or co-author of 43 professional publications. |
| Prepared and delivered engineering courses in the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia. |
