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Resume of QSG, Sc.D., P.E.
Consultant
EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
Noise, Vibration Control, Acoustics, Structural Dynamics, Expert ConsultantExpertise in structureborne sound, structural and machinery dynamics, noise and vibration control, and stress analysis. Projects have dealt with the design of facilities and buildings that accommodate extremely vibration-sensitive equipment or that require high resistance to vibration-related damage or malfunction. This consultant has won wide recognition for work on structural damping, vibration isolation, and vibrations of complex structures as applied to buildings, aerospace vehicles, ships and machinery.
This consultant's work experience includes noise and vibration control of buildings, vibration-sensitive facilities projects including vibration analysis and control for laboratory facilities, vibration environmental control for electron microscopes, analytical balances, and microtomes, and site evaluation and design of an optical calibration facility. This KKAI consultant has performed site evaluation, structural design, and equipment isolation analyses for many high technology facilities.
This consultant has taught machinery dynamics and applied mechanics, and engaged in research and consulting in stress analysis and heat transfer, and has participated in atomic weapons development and delivery concept analysis
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Aerospace, Construction, Machinery, Noise and Vibration Control
EDUCATION
Eng. Sc.D., New York University
M.S., University of New Mexico
B.S., Washington University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Consulting in noise and vibration control of buildings includes:
St. Peter's Church, New York City - Design of sanctuary structure fully floated on rubber pads to protect against intrusion of subway noise and vibration.
Cornell University, Biological Sciences Building - Development of structural design concepts for protecting research spaces from noise and vibration.
National Bureau of Standards - Review of state-of-the-art understanding of structureborne noise in buildings.
Vibration-sensitive facilities projects include:
Nano-Science Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC. Vibration analysis and control for laboratory facilities.
Nano-Mechanics Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Vibration analysis and control for this educational facility.
Yale-New Haven Hospital. Vibration environmental control for electron microscopes, analytical balances, and microtomes.
U.S. Postal Service, Electronic Mail Systems Laboratory, Rockville, MD. Site evaluation for high-speed optical scanner/transmitter.
Digital Equipment Corp., Microelectronics Development Lab., Marlboro, MA. Evaluation of buildings, site selection, and vibration control.
FAA Air Traffic Control Center, Indianapolis, IN. Study of expected vibration effects on computers, radar equipment, and displays.
Eastman-Kodak Co., Rochester, NY. Design of doubly isolated multi-story vacuum chambers for ultra sensitive tests of classified optical systems.
U.S. Navy Air Rework Facility, Pensacola, FL. Site evaluation and design of optical calibration facility.
Has performed site evaluation, structural design, and equipment isolation analyses for many high technology facilities:
Fairchild, Inc., South Portland, ME
General Electric Co., Niskayuna, NY
Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
International Business Machines Corp., Kingston and E. Fishkill, NY
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle, NC
Polaroid Corp., Cambridge, MA
Raytheon, West Andover, MA
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Sanders Associates, Nashua, NH
Sperry Research Center, Sudbury, MA
Wang Laboratories, Lowell, MA
Western Electric Corp., Orlando, FL and Allentown, PA
Consulting on vibration-resistant structures has included:
Presidential Helicopter Hangar, Anacostia, Washington, DC - Design to accommodate pressures from helicopters hovering and flying within the hangar.
Air Force Sonic Fatigue Test Facility, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH - Design of highly damped walls and beams to withstand long-term vibrations at resonance.
Launch Control Center, Cape Kennedy - Evaluation of window strength under combined noise and blast loading.
Naval Air Rework Facility, Norfolk, VA - Vibration reduction of engine-supporting structures in test cell.
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registered Professional Engineer in MS, DC, MS
HONORS AND AWARDS
Centennial Medallion, Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Trent-Crede Silver Medal in Shock and Vibration, Acoustical Society of America
Distinguished Engineer Award, Institute of Noise Control Engineering
Lifetime Achievement Award, Shock and Vibration Information Analysis Center
American Men and Women of Science
Who's Who in Aviation and Aerospace
Who's Who in the East
Dictionary of International Biography
Who's Who in Technology Today
Who's Who in Engineering
Men of Achievement
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Life Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
Member, Board Certified, Institute of Noise Control Engineering
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Advisor, International Standards Organization
Advisor, American National Standards Institute
Advisor, Argonne National Laboratory, Components Technology Division
Patent Reviewer, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Contributing Editor, Sound and Vibration
Editorial Board, Shock and Vibration Digest
Associate Editor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Editorial Board, Journal of Sound and Vibration
PUBLICATIONS
Author of numerous publications on topics including low-frequency noise reduction of cylindrical capsules, vibration isolation, structural damping, predicting footfall-induced vibrations of floors, building design for minimizing vibration, cancellation of structurally radiated tones, acoustics , damping materials, damping by viscoelastic layers, statistical energy analysis, vibration isolation and damping, floor vibrations due to human activity, mechanical vibrations, vibration criteria for sensitive equipment, vibration control techniques, vibration control design of high technology facilities, requirements imposed on polymeric materials by structural damping applications, structural vibrations and sound radiation at audio frequencies, noise and its control, designing sensitive equipment and facilities, structural damping potential of waveguide absorbers, cost-effective design of practically vibration-free high-technology facilities, vibration control of optical systems, vibration criteria for microelectronics manufacturing equipment, vibration as a parameter in the design of microelectronics facilities, vibration challenges in microelectronics manufacturing, prediction of noise and vibration in buildings near subway, noise control of diesel-powered underground mining machines, damping of panels due to ambient air, dynamics of track fastened resiliently to floated slablets, structureborne sound in buildings, means for the reduction of noise transmitted from subways to nearby buildings, statistical estimation of percentage of overexposed workers, reducing screen noise in coal cleaning plants, estimation of aeroacoustic loads on flight vehicle surfaces, prediction and control of vibrations in buildings, prediction of wind responses of tall open-truss structures, isolation of mechanical vibration impact, and noise, acoustic and performance test comparison of initial quieted truck with contemporary production trucks, excitation, response, and fatigue life estimation methods for the structural design of externally blown flaps, predicting the vibrations of fighter aircraft in the preliminary design stages, transonic rocket-sled study of fluctuating surface pressures and panel responses, stress resultants and out-of-plane deformations in stiff rings attached to elastic cylinders and subject to concentrated loads, predicting the aural detectability of aircraft, feasibility of aircraft stall detection by means of pressure fluctuation measurements, sonic boom simulation by means of low-pressure sources, residual stresses and displacements in wide curved bars subject to pure bending, analysis of vibratory energy distributions in composite structures, vibration distributions in multipanel structures; comparison of measurements with statistical energy predictions, statistical energy analysis of vibrating systems, considerations in the design of supports for panels in fatigue tests, high frequency vibration isolation, vibrations and noise due to piston-slap in reciprocating machinery, and more.
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Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Vibration Isolated Inertia Block
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National Neuroscience Research Center Vibration Analysis
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