• Defense
• Government
• Automotive
• Aerospace
• Marine
• Nuclear
• Power
• Metals
• Research and Development

This expert attended the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, IL and earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

This expert attended the National Tsing-Hwa University in Taiwan and earned an M.S. in Power Mechanical Engineering.

This expert has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, also earned through the National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.

This expert has extensive knowledge in structural mechanics, fatigue and impact failure of welds, and resistance spot welds. This expert has experience in root cause failure analysis. This expert also has knowledge in fracture of structures, fuel cell durability, bio-engineering, and computer vision in metrology. Structural integrity, nuclear reactors, pressure vessels and piping stress analysis, and welding modeling are other areas this expert has high interest in.

This expert is highly regarded in areas including fracture of surface cracks, fatigue and fracture mechanics, failure of materials, and strength of structural joints. This expert's work experience also includes areas of friction stir welding, automotive engineering, materials science and technology. Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, residual stress and distortion, surface crack growth, mechanics and mathematics are other areas this expert has interest in.

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, major university

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, major university

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, major university

Visiting Professor, National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

Visiting Professor, Dalian University of Science and Technology, Dalian, China

Adjunct Professor, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Ruhr-University at Bochum, Germany

Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics and Materials, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Mechanical Engineer, Stubbs, Overbeck and Associates, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Mechanical Engineer, Army arsenal, second lieutenant officer, ROTC, Taiwan

Research Grants And Contracts: Over $10M in the past 20 years from DOE, NSF, ONR, NASA, US Army, GMC, and other industries.

Reviewed Papers, Proposals and Inventions

Journals - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, International Journal of Fracture, Journal of Materials Science, Experimental Mechanics, Experimental Techniques, ASTM STP (Special Technical Publications), Applied Optics, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Welding Journal; IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control; Journal of Advances in Engineering Software; Smart Structures and Systems; Computational Materials Science

Conferences - ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conferences, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress, Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Congress; ASTM Symposium

Proposals - National Science Foundation, NSF Panelist, International Science Foundation, South Carolina Energy Research & Development Center, USC Venture Research Fund, DOE SBIR proposals (Phase 0, Phase I), The Research Council of Norway (RCN) - referee panel; Air Force of Scientific Research; National Fund for Scientific & Technological Development

Invention, patents - University of West Virginia

This expert holds patents related to static, fatigue and impact tests, video imaging, thermal analysis, atomic force microscopes, and more.

This expert has been in over 100 publications related to structural mechanics, fracture, fatigue, and weld residual stress, failure of spot welds, friction stir welding, surface crack growth, pressure vessel and piping stress analysis, fuel cell technology, and more.

This expert has been involved in over 100 conference proceedings and presentations on topics related to fracture of surface cracks, fatigue and fracture mechanics, failure of materials, structural integrity, strength of structural joints, computer technology in welding, friction stir welding, automotive engineering, materials science and technology, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, residual stress and distortion, mechanics and mathematics, and more.