Metallurgist Expert Witness: Metals Failure Analysis, Metal Testing and Corrosion Analysis

Expertise

• Failure analysis of metallic and non-metallic parts.
• Forensic evaluation of failed metal parts.
• Metal test methods including electron microscopy, metallurgical testing, chemical analysis and mechanical testing.
• Metal test methods including x-ray microanalytical techniques, surface analysis techniques, fracture analysis and fractography and x-ray diffraction analysis.
• High temperature materials properties and selection.

Experience

Independent Consultant

• Metal failure analysis and forensic investigation of metal parts.
• Routinely employ fractography, optical and electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, x-ray energy dispersive microprobe analysis and accelerated corrosion testing of metal alloys and parts.

Senior Member Technical Staff, Scanning Electron Analysis Laboratories, Inc.

• Provided metallurgical consultation to customers, including failure analysis and production problem solving.
• Worked as expert witness in product liability litigation.

Corrosion Scientist, Revere Research, Inc.

• Conducted research in stress-corrosion of copper-based alloys and passivation and corrosion of aluminum-based alloys.

Staff Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles

• Conducted research on in-situ grown oxides and sulfides as solar energy absorbers on a variety of copper-based alloys.

Consultant, Association of Scientific Advisors

• Performed failure analysis of industrial accident situations.
• Expert in metal forensic analyis utilizing fractography, optical and electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, x-ray energy dispersive microprobe analysis and accelerated simulation of corrosion test.

Honors & Publications

• Metals Handbook, Use of Micro-analytical Techniques in Failure Analysis and Problem Solving
• ASM Handbook, Fatigue Fracture Appearances
• The Effect of Preoxidation on the Corrosion of Some Alloys in Coal Char and Sulfur Vapor
• Application of Micro-analytical Techniques to High Temperature Corrosion Studies of Some Nickel-base Alloys
• XRF as a Problem Solving Tool

Education

• Ph.D. Engineering (Science of Materials), University of California
• M.S., Materials Science, University of Southern California
• B.S., Physics, Tehran University