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Resume of BZU, Ph.D., D.Sc., PE
Lead Consultant
EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
Advanced Materials, Powder Metallurgy Expert ConsultantExpertise in ring rolling and extrusion, engineering drawing and technology, mechanics, numerical methods, engineering drawing, mechanics of machines, and production engineering.
Additionally, this consultant has extensive experience in general engineering, production technology, production management, production planning and control, engineering drawing, 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, machine design, CIM-processes, manufacturing systems, plasticity in manufacture, automated manufacturing systems, computer aided manufacture, CIM, advanced FEM, precision forging of turbine blades, finite element in metal forming, and crack propagation.
This KKAI Associate also has expertise in tractor manufacture, engineering drawing, motor spares manufacture, small engine manufacture, tolerance control in gm pin grinder, machinability of free machining steels, test runs on equipment, stress analysis of a multi-riveting fixture for a clutch rebuilding machine, automatic closing of shutter door, 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, precision measurement of glass thickness, accurate force measurement at the die-injector interface of a molding machine, measurement of surface finish of corroded steel plates, cad, cam of dies, analytical modeling of metal forming processes, parallel processing, expert systems for die design and process control, visco-plastic finite element modeling, installation of 3d computer graphics, cad of streamline dies, material information systems, simulation of metal flow in forgings, and ring rolling simulation and analysis.
Additional experience includes cad/cam of shape streamline extrusion dies, rolling of TiAl, upper bound solution for extrusion forging as a friction test, cad of part conical/streamline extrusion die, 3-d finite element analysis of a load cell, analysis of disk forging process, extrusion process design, design of streamlined extrusion dies, conceptual design of rolling processes, design of a streamlined draw die, design of a pinch rolling process for blade manufacture, discrete event simulation, blade manufacture, process modeling, forging modeling, UBET application ring rolling, optimization of forging die design for a diesel turbo-charge impeller, fabrication of an extrusion rig, quality improvements of ferrous castings, scheduling of the hot rolling mill, development of a non ferrous extrusion rig, non-symmetric extrusion, manufacture of complex extrusion dies, sculptured surfaces, 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. Highly experienced in areas including development of enhanced techniques for rolling, processing science, ring rolling, buckling of billets, rolling of TiAl, state-of-the-art in extrusion, modeling of casting porosity, cad/cam of polymer extrusion dies, extrusion of super conducting material, statistically designed experiments for material characterization, effect of temperature on machining, analytical modeling of ring joining, analysis of pack rolling strips and sheets, generation of 3-d models from 2-d, development of a composite processing program, extrusion analysis, advanced materials processing, process model development for discrete event systems, development of new yield criteria, pinch and roll forming of blades, enhancements to process models, 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, cost model development and maintenance for jet engines, 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, modeling and optimization of amorphous metals processing, metallic composite research, optimization of the ring gear forging process, Ti-b alloys, hybrid rapid infrared superheating furnace for the treatment of aluminum alloys, 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
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Machining, Manufacturing Systems, Metal Forming, Metallurgy, Advanced Materials
EDUCATION
D.Sc. (Eng.), Higher Doctorate, University of London, U.K.
Ph.D., Imperial College, University of London, U.K.
M.Sc & D.I.C (Production Engineering), Imperial College, University of London, U.K.
B.Sc. (Hon.), Mechanical Engineering, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, major university
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Areas of specialty included mechanical engineering, production engineering, research and development, and advanced materials processing.
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
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
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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.
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Professional Engineer, State of Ohio
HONORS AND AWARDS
ASME certificate for organizing symposium "Computational Methods in Materials Processing"
NSF Panel Reviewer, Division of Design and Manufacturing
Fritz and Dolores Russ Research Award, best paper in the College of Engineering, major university
Editorial Committee, ASM Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
Participated, contributed to the MIT workshop on Axiomatic Design and Industrial Applications
Invited reviewer of tenure dossiers and support letters for university faculty. including MIT
F.C.G.I. - Fellowship of the City and Guilds of London Institute
Highest grade, Mechanical Engineering of the PE Examination given by the Ohio Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, including all Engineering disciplines: Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical
NRC/AFSC Senior Research Fellowship Award, National Research Council, USA
Nominated for the U.S. Air Force "Cleary Award" Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
NRC/AFSC Senior Research Fellowship Award, National Research Council, USA
Metropolitan Vickers Award by Joseph Lucas and Co. Ltd., U.K., for higher degree studies
M.Sc. Distinction Award, Imperial College, London
Government University scholarship for three years in the U.K. (two awarded in Engineering to the whole nation)
Exemption from first year of Engineering, University of Ceylon, University Scholarship
The Jinendradasa Memorial Prize for first place in University Entrance Examination (Engineering), first Place in Higher School Certificate Examination
Wickramasinghe Memorial Prize for Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Ruby Andries Senior Prize in Mathematics, Physics and Form Prizes
Lorenz Scholarship, Royal College, Colombo
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Chartered Engineer, Council of Engineering Institutions. U.K.
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, U.K.
Fellow, Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, U.K.
Fellow, Member, Institution of Production Engineers, U.K.
Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, U.S.A.
Member, American Society of Metals, U.S.A.
Member, Work Study Organization and Methods, U.K.
Senior Member, American Institute of Industrial Engineers, U.S.A.
Fellow, Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, U.S.A.
Member, Institution of Engineers, Australia
Member, Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka
Corresponding Member, International Institute for Production Engineering Research, Paris, France
Member, NAMRI/SME, (North American Research Institute)
Professional Engineer, State of Ohio
Chairman, Selection Committee for the Stocker Chair Professor in Manufacturing Engineering
Member, Tenure/Promotion Committee, ME department
Member, Faculty Selection Committee, ME department
Member, Faculty Selection Committee, IT department
Chairman, College-wide Manufacturing Engineering Committee, Manufacturing Master's Program
Member, College-wide Ph.D. Committee
Member, Tenure/Promotion Committee, College of ENT
Chairman, Chairman Evaluation Committee
Member, Deans Evaluation Committee
Member, Deans Selection Committee
Chair, ASME-Region V MEDH committee
PUBLICATIONS
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.
Please note that this is an abbreviated CV. A fully detailed unabridged CV is available under special circumstances.
Read articles by this associate:
Development of Affordable and Advanced Titanium Alloys for Potential Aerospace Applications
Development of an Experimental Ring Rolling Mill
Profile Rolling Process Design: Case Study
Extrusion Process Design: Case Study
Development of Affordable and Advanced Titanium Alloys
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