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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Heavy Metals experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Heavy Metals landscape.
Expert Witness #227074
This expert holds a PhD in Metallurgy and brings to the table many years of experience in the areas of materials engineering, failure analysis and engineering investigations. This expert’s doctoral research dealt with safely containing hazardous, explosive materials and this is also true for much of this expert’s industrial consulting work. This expert has direct experience with grey cast iron in terms of pipeline corrosion and prediction of fatigue life in cast iron vessels.
This expert’s code related work has involved pressure vessel and pipeline codes. This work has involved assessing old cast iron pressure vessels for conformance to current codes. Below is a summary of example work experience:
Cast iron experience:
- Life estimate for buried pipe
- Water main failure in river crossing
- Stray current induced corrosion failure
Metallurgical/Fatigue Life for gray cast iron:
- Remaining life prediction for very old dryers
- Fitness for service on old paper mill dryer drums
- Failure prediction in check valve bodies
- Failure of brake drums
Code Experience:
- Repair procedures for damaged batch digesters
- Life prediction for dryers and dryer drums
- Butane gas line explosion
- Steam piping analysis and failures
- Refrigeration line failures
- API/ASME 579 Fitness for Service experience
Risk for Natural Gas Transport:
This expert’s graduate course work and dissertation dealt with preventing explosions (liquid natural gas). Much of this expert’s professional experience has involved efforts to prevent explosions or determining why explosions occurred. This is a poorly understood problem and one that many companies are ignoring. This expert has directed NDT or inspection efforts in a number of different applications.
Start Heavy Metals Expert SearchExpert Witness #251370
This expert holds a PhD in Materials Engineering and serves as a Senior Engineer for a highly sought-after technical consultancy. Specializing in physical and process metallurgy, quality control systems and manufacturing processes, this expert's doctoral dissertation examined combustion processes in an electric arc furnace (EAF) as well as steel oxidation at elevated temperatures. As process metallurgy manager at a steel company, this expert was a member of a capital investment committee that, in addition to other projects, investigated the feasibility of oxygen injection in the EAF. While there, EQS had a 50tonne eccentric bottom tap (EBT) EAF as well as two ladle furnaces, a vacuum degassing unit and calcium injection system. EQS produced ingots (from 10" diameter to 52" diameter) used by the forging industry of carbon and alloy steel, including tool steels and ferritic/martensitic stainless steels. As process metallurgy manager this expert was responsible for understanding and controlling 2513g the melting, refining and casting processes. Some of this expert's additional responsibilities included developing energy balance for the EAF, the control of slag chemistry with respect to slag foaming and carbon, recovery of alloying elements from different scrap sources and the development of materials database to link product defects with specific steelmaking processes. In addition to deposition testimonies, this expert manages projects and provides litigation support (including review and analysis of documents, indexing depositions, preparation of cross examination questions, preparation of direct testimony, technical research) for colleagues. These have included several multimillion dollar arbitration and litigation matters.
Start Heavy Metals Expert SearchExpert Witness #263524
This expert is an Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, working on the development and application of Titanium Boride materials for biomedical devices. This expert is familiar with the pink color of the alumina ceramic femoral heads; this expert became aware of this in the process of developing hip implant materials.
This expert is a member of the Materials Research Society, the American Society for Materials International, the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, and American Ceramic Society. This expert is a Fellow of the American Society of Materials International, and received an award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society for notable contribution to metallurgical science. This expert holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgy & Engineering, and is a named inventor on three US Patents covering material inventions. This expert has been deposed in two cases, and has provided court testimony.
Start Heavy Metals Expert SearchExpert Witness #256094
This expert received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering. This expert is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials Science and Engineering. This expert is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Fellow of five professional societies in materials engineering, mechanical engineering, and automotive engineering: TMS, ASM International, ASME, SAE, and AIME. This expert was a Staff Research Scientist where this expert specialized in sheet metal forming, including dies and tools, sheet metal properties, measurement of mechanical properties, at metal plasticity. This expert continued work in those areas and added in finite element modeling of metal forming operations, steel and aluminum properties and grades, springback, friction and wear, and fundamental properties related to those applied phenomena. This expert's research work and publications are approximately half in metallurgy/materials and half in mechanical engineering. This expert has taught courses, both graduate and undergraduate, on materials, material properties, mechanical testing, metal plasticity, and other related topics. This expert's group performs a variety of research related to large-strain deformation, dislocation mechanisms, forming, finite element modeling and new experimental methods. This expert is the author of more than 300 technical articles, 2 proceedings volumes, 2 combined proceedings and authored books, and 2 text books in these areas. This expert has presented over 100 international and invited papers, and has advised 24 masters theses and 29 doctoral dissertations. This expert serves as a consultant to industry with regard to mechanical and materials engineering, particularly regarding die forming, sheet materials, and their automotive applications.
This expert has extensive expert witness experience including report writing, over a dozen depositions and four occasions of courtroom testimony. This expert has specialized consulting in intellectual property litigation, but not exclusively. This expert's work is generally in metallurgical and/or mechanical engineering, including sheet metal forming, metal processing, welding equipment design, and automotive component design and manufacturing.
Start Heavy Metals Expert SearchExpert Witness #267639
This chemical engineering/process development expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. and is an Emeritus Professor and former chemical and materials engineering department head at a public university. This expert's experience includes chemical process design, process analysis, and process forensics. This expert holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from a public research university and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from a well-regarded public research university. This expert's career includes appointments at a national laboratory and several chemical, materials, and manufacturing companies.
This expert is familiar with the chlor-alkali process through experience handling chlorine and heavy metals in the chemical industry, as well as through the study of numerous chemical processes throughout an academic career. This expert is very familiar with process hazards review, process safety management, and chemical hygiene and safety, and has been recognized for accomplishments in these areas.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has supported over 80 litigations as an expert witness or consultant, has testified at trial and arbitration on numerous occasions, and has been deposed roughly 40 times.
Start Heavy Metals Expert SearchExpert Witness #271164
This food safety and food handling expert holds a Ph.D. and has been a research scientist and director in the food safety field for over 55 years, with knowledge of foodborne disease in government, academic, and industry positions.
This expert is knowledgeable about foodborne diseases that occur in food processing and foodservice facilities. Food processing and foodservice facilities should have a HACCP plan that determines the risks of foodborne illness to customers for each item processed, prepared, or shipped, and when hazards are detected, appropriate mitigation strategies should be introduced. Key areas include preventing, eliminating, or reducing risks through good hygienic practices.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant in matters involving foodborne illness, contamination, and food safety issues, including matters involving pathogens, food allergens, foreign objects, heavy metals, and extraneous matter in food products.
Start Heavy Metals Expert SearchExpert Witness #277656
This mechanical and metallurgical engineering expert holds a PE and provides forensic and consulting engineering services using a combination of mechanical and metallurgical engineering experience, including plastics, along with related education. This expert is a registered professional engineer in Texas and more than 25 other states, with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing in the metals processing industries, over 30 years performing failure analyses, and over 25 years investigating claims. Assignments have involved mechanical equipment, appliances, oil and gas production and transmission equipment, plumbing, HVAC, heavy equipment, machine tools, cranes and wire cables, metal roofs, manufacturing and thermal processes, among many others.
Over the course of over 15 years, this expert has investigated a number of oilfield assignments, including pipelines, separators, heat treaters, workover rigs, drilling rigs, and associated equipment. This expert has worked with gas compression equipment at well sites and midstream locations, including diesel-driven and turbine-driven equipment, and with a variety of valves used in high-pressure applications, including those used with natural gas.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has testified in a wide variety of matters, including personal injury and property damage, in both state and federal court, and has testified by deposition more than 150 times and in court more than 15 times. Expert opinions and testimony have never been excluded.
Start Heavy Metals Expert SearchExpert Witness #286561
This environmental sciences/sub-surface investigation expert is a senior environmental chemistry leader at a nationally recognized, award-winning environmental consulting firm with multiple offices in the eastern and midwestern United States, providing due diligence, environmental building sciences services, regulatory compliance services, subsurface investigation, and remediation services to a wide range of market segments, and has over 30 years of experience in environmental engineering, chemistry, and project management. This expert is familiar with a wide range of environmental regulations, including RCRA, CERCLA, LUST, and USEPA Contract Laboratory Protocol, and has extensive experience with a variety of state-led risk-based closure programs.
This expert has performed and managed hundreds of residential, commercial, and industrial site assessments, site investigations, and remediation projects involving heavy metals, PCBs, petroleum, PFAS and emerging contaminants, and chlorinated solvents.
This expert has investigated hundreds of sites to determine the nature and extent of contamination. The contaminated media included soil, groundwater, sediment, surface water, vegetation, air, and building materials. In expert witness work, this expert has provided expert reports, interrogatories, affidavits, depositions, and courtroom testimony addressing environmental investigation, the timing and sources of environmental releases, contaminant migration routes and pathways, reasonableness of response costs, and various other expert analyses.
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