• Machining
• Manufacturing Systems
• Metal Forming
• Metallurgy
• Advanced Materials

This expert has a D.Sc. (Eng.), Higher Doctorate from the University of London, U.K.

This expert received a Ph.D., Imperial College, University of London, U.K.

This expert received a M.Sc. & D.I.C. (Production Engineering), Imperial College, at the University of London, U.K.

This expert has a B.Sc. (Hon.) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya.

This expert specializes in ring rolling and extrusion, engineering drawing and technology, mechanics, and numerical methods. Further expertise includes mechanics of machines, and production engineering.

Additionally, this consultant has extensive experience in general engineering, production technology, production management, and production planning and control. Further experience includes mechanics of solids, production science, dynamics, manufacturing processes, and advanced manufacturing processes. This consultant is also experienced in areas including CAD usage, CAD/CAM of dies, advanced CAD, and machine design. Other related areas are CIM-processes, manufacturing systems, plasticity in manufacture, and automated manufacturing systems. This expert is also experienced with computer aided manufacture, CIM, advanced FEM, and precision forging of turbine blades. Finite element in metal forming and crack propagation, production of railway wheels, and other steel castings are also fields of expertise.

This consultant also has expertise in tractor manufacture, motor spares manufacture, small engine manufacture, and tolerance control in gm pin grinder. Other related areas of specialty are machinability of free machining steels, test runs on equipment, stress analysis of a multi-riveting fixture for a clutch rebuilding machine, and automatic closing of shutter doors. Furthermore, specialties include size effect in stress-strain behavior of alloy steels, investigation of the failure of a machine tool to perform to specification, tolerance control of needle bearings, and precision measurement of glass thickness. This expert is also knowledgeable with accurate force measurement at the die-injector interface of a molding machine, measurement of surface finish of corroded steel plates, cad, cam of dies, and analytical modeling of metal forming processes. Parallel processing, expert systems for die design and process control, visco-plastic finite element modeling, and installation of 3D computer graphics are other specialties of this expert. Other relevant skills and knowledge this expert has include CAD of streamline dies, material information systems, simulation of metal flow in forgings, and ring rolling simulation and analysis.

Additional experience this expert has includes CAD/CAM of shape streamline extrusion dies, rolling of TiAl, upper bound solution for extrusion forging as a friction test, and cad of part conical/streamline extrusion die. Other areas of emphasis are 3-d finite element analysis of a load cell, analysis of disk forging process, extrusion process design, and design of streamlined extrusion dies. This expert also has experience with the conceptual design of rolling processes, design of a streamlined draw die, design of a pinch rolling process for blade manufacture, and discrete event simulation. Furthermore, this expert has a background in blade manufacture, process modeling, forging modeling, and UBET application ring rolling. Additional experience includes optimization of forging die design for a diesel turbo-charge impeller, fabrication of an extrusion rig, quality improvements of ferrous castings, and scheduling of the hot rolling mill. This expert also offers experience with development of a non ferrous extrusion rig, non-symmetric extrusion, manufacture of complex extrusion dies, and sculptured surfaces. Related experience includes cad/cam of pressure die casting dies, high temperature metal forming, buckling of billets, analysis of casting, cad/cam of stream-lined extrusion dies, and hot rolling of TiAl sheet. This expert is highly experienced in areas including development of enhanced techniques for rolling, processing science, ring rolling, buckling of billets, and rolling of TiAl. This associate has related specialties such as state-of-the-art in extrusion, modeling of casting porosity, cad/cam of polymer extrusion dies, and extrusion of super conducting material. This expert is experienced in statistically designed experiments for material characterization, effect of temperature on machining, analytical modeling of ring joining, and analysis of pack rolling strips and sheets. Further background encompasses generation of 3-D models from 2-D, development of a composite processing program, extrusion analysis, and advanced materials processing. Related experience includes process model development for discrete event systems, development of new yield criteria, pinch and roll forming of blades, and enhancements to process models. Further background and experience includes material behavior modeling for thermomechanical processes, and simulation based design system for multi-stage manufacturing processes.

Additional experience and specialization includes material behavior modeling for thermomechanical processes, analysis of tube bending, material behavior testing and analysis for design of forging processes, and cost model development and maintenance for jet engines. This expert also specializes in material behavior testing and analysis for design of forging processes, cost model development and maintenance for jet engines, modeling and analysis of material behavior for control, and modeling and optimization of amorphous metals processing. Other specialties include metallic composite research, optimization of the ring gear forging process, Ti-b alloys, and hybrid rapid infrared superheating furnace for the treatment of aluminum alloys. Further specialties are specific to microstructure and high temperature, fatigue improvement of specialized aluminum alloy forgings, stress of steel alloys for forgings, technologies for producing sheet and foils from affordable & structurally efficient Ti, software for the design and certification of unitized airframe components.

Lead Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Postgraduate School

Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, major university

Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Director, Center for Advanced Materials Processing, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Moss Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, OH

NRC/AFSC Senior Research Fellow, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Director, Board of Ceylon Steel Corp., Athurugiriya, Sri Lanka

Engineer-Consultant, Industrial Development Board, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Lecturer-in-Charge, Department of Production Engineering, University of Sri-Lanka, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Research Assistant, Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London

Teaching Assistant, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Assistant Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Ceylon

Organized two International conferences at Ohio University on Ring Rolling and Extrusion. Acted as referee to various ASME, ASM and SME conferences and journals, and as Chairman and Co-Chairman. Reviewed research proposals for the NSF, served as a panel member on the review of NSF - design and manufacturing division proposals and SBIR proposals.

Served as consultant to Ministry of planning, Sri Lanka, Bureau of standards, Sri Lanka, Industrial Development Board, Repco Power, BHP Co., Warren & Brown Ltd., Byrne & Davidson, BHP Melbourne Research Labs, Marand Engineering, Torrington Bearing Co., Pilkington-ACI Ltd., Noyes Bros/Uniroyal, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, ARCO Metals/Chemicals, USAF Materials Laboratory, Universal Energy Systems, SDRC Inc., Timken Research, Kennametal, Systran Corporation, Ladish Co., Schollser Forge, Ontario Forge, Allison Gas Turbine Co., Wyman-Gordon Co., Cameron Forge Co., Sensotec Inc., Chen-Tech Industries, Youngstown State University, United Technologies Research Corp., Systran Corporation, Timken Co., GE, Aero-Engine Division, USAF/TMC, USAF/AFOSR/TMC, USAF/SYSTRAN, Concurrent Technologies Corp., Technirep Inc., Concurrent Technologies Corp., ADB (Asian Development Bank), Queen City Forge Co., MSC Corp., and others.

U.S. patent holder and published author on topics related to tool and manufacturing, blanking and forming, cad/cam of dies, strength of materials, intelligent manufacturing, metal forming, hot extrusion, method to estimate the coefficient of friction in cold rolling, appropriate technology, role of the production engineer, economic batch production, hot rolling mill, cast iron foundry industry, scheduling a multi-product single machine system with variable set up costs, finite element method in engineering problems, design and construction of an extrusion rig, machinability testing of free machining steels, extrusion of non-circular sections through shaped dies, extrusion of square section from round bars through converging dies, analysis of extrusion of drawing of polygonal sections through strictly converging dies, stress-strain behavior in compression, computer aided process molding of hot forging and extrusion of aluminum alloys, cad/cam of the die, compressible p/m materials, analysis of extrusion or drawing of polygonal sections through streamlined dies, improved processes for extrusion of metals and polymers, analysis of rolling, analytical modeling of the buckling behavior of high aspect ratio billets, effects of temperature on the machining of metals, extrusion through controlled-strain-rate dies, computer-aided process design for the manufacture of rolled rings, conceptual design of control strategies for hot rolling, computer modeling of net-shape manufacturing processes, design, analysis and experimental verification of the pack-rolling process, three-step approach to designing a metal forming process, design of forming processes, improved upper bound method for flow analysis in converging extrusion dies, development of utility programs for a cold drawing process, development of a neural network model for a cold rolling process, virtual material processing (vmp), pinch and roll process of compressor airfoil manufacture, use of UBET for design of flash gap in closed-die forging, 3d flow analysis inside shear and streamlined extrusion dies for feeder plate design, design of profile ring rolling by backward simulation using upper bound element technique (UBET), process design of axisymmetric forging by forward and backward simulation, matrix analysis of the large deformation of an elastic-plastic axially symmetric continuum, computer aided batch production scheduling, stable shear separation in fine blanking, cad of shaped extrusion dies, mechanics of conventional and fine blanking, wrinkling of sheet metal during deep drawing, computer aided modeling and design of shaped extrusion dies, shaped engineering parts, application of rigid visco-plastic finite element method to metal forming problems, CAE of hot forging and extrusion of air frame and engine components, mathematical-modeling technique used for analyzing industrial metal working processes, cad/cam to manufacture streamlined dies for extrusion of complex materials, metal flow simulation, computer aided manufacturing of streamlined extrusion dies, research in cad/cam and robotics, cad/cam of streamlined extrusion dies, ASM, advances in the production of tubes, bars and shapes, development of an intelligent apprentice system for extrusion die design and process simulation, finite element simulation, cad/cam of dies, die design and process selection, materials modeling and intrinsic workability, slab analysis of rolling, computer modeling of the buckling behavior of high aspect ratio billets, analysis of ring rolling with material modeling, computer-aided preform design for ring rolling, computer modeling of heat transfer during ring rolling, computer modeling of flow lines in metal forming processes, remeshing in metal forming analysis, modified viscoplastic formulation for large deformations using bulk modulus, knowledge based system for predicting maximum allowable cutting force during broaching, extrusion through controlled-strain-rate dies, cad/cam/cae of dies for extrusion of metals and polymers, transport phenomena in porosity formation during solidification of castings, analytical modeling of the pack rolling process, finite element analysis for robust optimization of shape rolling, design and analysis of rolling processes, near net shape profile rolling, intelligent method for the design, analysis and control of a metal forming process, computer simulation of hollow cold extrusion and drawing, residual stresses in bi-metallic co-extruded products , simulation of hydraulic expansion of thin-walled tubes using the elastic-plastic finite element method, design of forming processes, design of combination streamlined-shear dies for complex product geometries, discrete event manufacturing process optimization, development and application of neural network for the rolling process, aluminum extrusion processes , 3d simulation of streamlined and shear extrusion dies, improved roll forming of compressor blades, computer simulation of profile ring rolling, process modeling of shape rolling for aerospace industry, motor spares manufacturing industry, conventional and fine blanking, grid strain analysis in sheet metal forming, extrusion dyes, computer aided modeling of hot forging processes, modeling of p/m extrusion, cad/cam of streamlined dies for extrusion of p/m materials, computer aided modeling of the hot forging process, consolidation and forming of p/m porous billets, cad/cam of streamlined extrusion dies, fem analysis of extrusion, streamlined extrusion die design for arbitrary shaped billet and product geometries, analysis of ring rolling, cad/cam of streamlined dies for polymer extrusion, effects of friction in metal forming, integration of design and manufacturing, friction measurement during material processing, optimization of micro structure extrusion, design and analysis of polymer flows in extrusion dies, computer integration of design and manufacturing, design and analysis of hot and cold rolling processes, mechanics of semi-solid materials, process model development for optimization of forged disk manufacturing processes, application of neural network in the analysis of rolling processes, mathematical and physical simulation of contour rolled rings, development of process models for use with global optimization of a manufacturing system, elastic deflection and compensation methods for airfoil shape forming dies, ease of preform design in forgings, size effects in miniature hot extrusion, and more.