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Metallurgical Engineer, Metallurgist, Corrosion Engineering Consultant, Research Scientist, Component Corrosion Failure Consultant, Fatigue Failure Analysis, Accident Investigation, Accident Reconstruction, Specialist, Forensic Analysis Investigation Expert Witness Testimony, Engineering Consulting Services
Expertise in corrosion performance of materials, metal fatigue, failure analysis, high temperature corrosion, aqueous corrosion, corrosion protection and control, physical, chemical, mechanical properties of metals and alloys, cyclic deformation behavior, stress corrosion cracking, high strength aluminum alloys, aircraft structural materials, and fatigue crack initiation.

Highly experienced in areas including thin film-environment interactions, pitting and crevice corrosion, electronic applications chemical mechanical planarization of interconnects, intumescent materials, copper alloy electroplating, microelectronic applications, aqueous and stress corrosion resistance, stress corrosion cracking, liquid metal embrittlement, hydrogen damage failures, corrosion fatigue failures, fracture of metals and alloys, high temperature structural materials, aluminum alloy piping failures, corrosion fatigue of low carbon steels, stress corrosion cracking of pure Cu, and deformation of metal single crystals.

This KKAI Associate also offers specialization in transmission electron microscopy, creep properties of nickel alloys, fatigue cracking in a nickel-base superalloy, the environment and fatigue fracture, mechanisms of fatigue crack nucleation, oxygen and fatigue fracture of alloys, microstructural effects on fatigue of metals and alloys, fractographic features in eutectic composites, hydrogen assisted fatigue cracking of aluminum alloys, low cycle fatigue of a nickel alloy, stress corrosion cracking of stainless steels, mechanism of corrosion fatigue crack initiation and propagation, stress corrosion cracking in duplex stainless steel weldments, fatigue behavior of aluminum bronze alloys, material removal in fretting, pitting potential of stainless steel, stem microanalysis of duplex stainless steel weld metal, fatigue mechanisms in nickel and cobalt-base eutectic composites, nitrogen and stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel weld metals, fibrous eutectic alloys, creep-fatigue-environment interactions in eutectic composites.

Additional specialization includes cyclic wear behavior of tempered martensite steel, the effect of retained ferrite on localized corrosion of stainless steel, sulfide inclusion dissolution kinetics in pit initiation of stainless steels, environmental considerations in wear processes, shot peening, catalytic activity of iron, nickel and nickel-phosphorus in electroless nickel plating, passive films formed on ferritic stainless steels, hydrogen diffusion in nickel, crack growth behavior of aluminum in liquid mercury, microbiologically influenced corrosion processes, modeling of corrosion fatigue pre-crack initiation processes, cathodic depolarization, stress corrosion cracking behavior of tungsten heavy alloys in sodium chloride solution, surface dissolution and passivation on the cyclic deformation of nickel, electroless nickel coatings, the aqueous lithium salt blanket concept, microbiologically influenced corrosion, matrix composition and properties of c/glass composites, cracking of aluminum-lithium copper alloy in chloride solutions, the catalytic effect of platinum on oxidation of carbon fibres, moisture and hydrogen induced embrittlement of iron aluminides, mercury liquid embrittlement failure of aluminum alloy piping, aerospace applications of intermetallics, corrosion of titanium in alkaline peroxide bleach liquors, dissolved ozone and corrosion behavior of metals and alloys, chemical processes in the chemical mechanical polishing of copper, electrochemical interactions in the chemical-mechanical polishing of copper for integrated circuits, mass transfer models for the electrodeposition of copper with a buffering agent, and deposition of copper on patterned tin barrier layers

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Aviation, Electrochemical, Electronics, Metallurgy, Corrosion Engineering

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc

Providing metallurgical engineering consulting, metallurgy, corrosion engineering consulting, research, failure analysis, forensic engineering, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

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Visiting Senior Scientist (Humboldt-Preis-Träger), Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung, Dusseldorf

Visiting Professor of Metallurgy, Imperial College of Science & Technology, University of London

Senior Research Associate, Advanced Materials Research & Development Lab, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Research Assistant, Dept. of Metallurgy & Materials Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Commissioned Officer, U.S. Coast Guard

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research interests include the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of metals and alloys with specific reference to studies of cyclic deformation behavior as affected by environment and temperature, basic corrosion studies, and stress corrosion cracking. Each of these areas is particularly important to the ultimate use of metallic materials in engineering applications. For example, current studies of the effects of aqueous environments on the fatigue behavior of high strength aluminum alloys are directed toward an understanding of accelerated failures of these alloys in such applications as aircraft structural materials. Fundamental studies of fatigue crack initiation in high purity metals and alloys are directed toward a basic understanding of how surface/environment interactions affect cyclic stress induced information. The physics and chemistry of thin film-environment interactions are being studied with the specific aim of determining the film characteristics that resist break-down by specific ions or by stress. These studies include the phenomena of stress corrosion cracking, pitting and crevice corrosion. Research efforts include the chemistry and electrochemistry of tailored electrolytes for optimizing chemical mechanical planarization of interconnects for electronic applications.

HONORS AND AWARDS
Society of the Sigma XI
Hudson-Mohawk Chapter of AIME award for distinguished services
Alcoa Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Achievement
Case Centennial Scholar, Case-Western Reserve University
Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Fellow, American Society for Metals
Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Corrosion
President, Alpha Sigma Mu, (National Honor Society)
Acta Metallurgica, Outstanding Paper Award
Honorary Member, Alpha Sigma Mu (National Honor Society)
Willis Rodney Whitney Award, National Association of Corrosion Engineers
Alpha Sigma Mu Distinguished Lectureship, ASMI
Fellow, National Association of Corrosion Engineers
Jerome Fischbach Faculty Travel Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Distinguished Career Award, Hudson-Mohawk Section of TMS
National Academy of Sciences Nomination and Presidential Appointment to the United States Nuclear Waste Technology Review Board
Fellow, The Electrochemical Society

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
ASM International
American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers
National Association of Corrosion Engineers
The Electrochemical Society
National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering Drilling Technology Panel
Electrochemical Corrosion Panel
Pacific Northwest Laboratories Research Review Committee, Chairman
Argonne National Laboratory Ad Hoc Panel for the Review of the Corrosion Programs of the Materials Characterization Center and Nuclear Waste Repository Sites
NASA Space Processing Advisory Committee
Scientific Review Group, Canadian Nuclear Waste Disposal Program Chairman, Engineered Barriers Committee
United States Nuclear Waste Technology Review Board

PUBLICATIONS
Over 200 publications on topics related to intumescent materials, copper alloy electroplating, microelectronic applications, aqueous and stress corrosion resistance, stress corrosion cracking, liquid metal embrittlement, hydrogen damage failures, corrosion fatigue failures, fracture of metals and alloys, high temperature structural materials, aluminum alloy piping failures, corrosion fatigue of low carbon steels, stress corrosion cracking of pure Cu, the deformation of metal single crystals, transmission electron microscopy, creep properties of nickel alloys, fatigue cracking in a nickel-base superalloy, the environment and fatigue fracture, mechanisms of fatigue crack nucleation, oxygen and fatigue fracture of alloys, microstructural effects on fatigue of metals and alloys, fractographic features in eutectic composites, hydrogen assisted fatigue cracking of aluminum alloys, low cycle fatigue of a nickel alloy, stress corrosion cracking of stainless steels, mechanism of corrosion fatigue crack initiation and propagation, stress corrosion cracking in duplex stainless steel weldments, fatigue behavior of aluminum bronze alloys, material removal in fretting, pitting potential of stainless steel, stem microanalysis of duplex stainless steel weld metal, fatigue mechanisms in nickel and cobalt-base eutectic composites, nitrogen and stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel weld metals, fibrous eutectic alloys, creep-fatigue-environment interactions in eutectic composites, cyclic wear behavior of tempered martensite steel, the effect of retained ferrite on localized corrosion of stainless steel, sulfide inclusion dissolution kinetics in pit initiation of stainless steels, environmental considerations in wear processes, shot peening, catalytic activity of iron, nickel and nickel-phosphorus in electroless nickel plating, passive films formed on ferritic stainless steels, hydrogen diffusion in nickel, crack growth behavior of aluminum in liquid mercury, microbiologically influenced corrosion processes, modeling of corrosion fatigue pre-crack initiation processes, cathodic depolarization, stress corrosion cracking behavior of tungsten heavy alloys in sodium chloride solution, surface dissolution and passivation on the cyclic deformation of nickel, electroless nickel coatings, the aqueous lithium salt blanket concept, microbiologically influenced corrosion, matrix composition and properties of c/glass composites, cracking of aluminum-lithium copper alloy in chloride solutions, the catalytic effect of platinum on oxidation of carbon fibres, moisture and hydrogen induced embrittlement of iron aluminides, mercury liquid embrittlement failure of aluminum alloy piping, aerospace applications of intermetallics, corrosion of titanium in alkaline peroxide bleach liquors, dissolved ozone and corrosion behavior of metals and alloys, chemical processes in the chemical mechanical polishing of copper, electrochemical interactions in the chemical-mechanical polishing of copper for integrated circuits, mass transfer models for the electrodeposition of copper with a buffering agent, deposition of copper on patterned tin barrier layers, and more

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