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Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Gearbox Designer, Structural Dynamics and Mechanical Design Consultant, Engineering, Fatigue Failure Analysis, Accident Investigation, Accident Reconstruction, Specialist, Forensic Analysis Investigation Expert Witness Testimony, Engineering Consulting Services
Expertise in gear design and production, research and analysis, design audit, failure analysis and expert witness.

This associate offers specific expertise relative to software for gear rating, analysis design, lubrication of gears, machine design, material science, vibration analysis, Hertzian substance fatigue and polishing wear, carburized and ground gearing, tooth modifications for heavily loaded gears, and rotor bearing systems.

Additional experience and specialization includes seismic qualification of gearboxes and lubrication systems, bending stress in non-involute gears, planetary and parallel shaft gearboxes for gas turbines, planetary gearboxes for off highway vehicles, path speed reducers for water jet propulsion pumps, hypoid gearboxes for rapid transit drives, spiral bevel gearboxes for railroad locomotive traction drives and electric generator drives.

Has conducted numerous studies in areas including dynamic loads on gear teeth, calculating the dynamic factor, finite element analysis of spur gears, vibration analysis of four-mass systems, gear bending stress analysis, gear strength geometry factor for shaper cut gears, involute gears, transmissions and automation in design, gearbox quality, industrial gear drives, and predicting gear life.

Additional areas of interest include designing minimum-weight gears, gear fatigue life for wind turbines, polishing wear, reliable gearboxes for wind turbines, gear tooth calculations, friction, lubrication, and wear of gears, gear failure analysis, hardened and ground spur gear design, requirements for wind turbine gearboxes, and gear damage analysis.

Knowledgeable in areas including microstructures, load capacity ratings for wind turbine gears, dynamic load calculation, sizing worm gears, gear micropitting, oil cleanliness in wind turbine gearboxes, hot gear drives troubleshooting, surfacetopography and contact fatigue in mixed lubrication, false brinelling and fretting corrosion, and oils with high pressure-viscosity coefficient

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Automotive

EDUCATION
Master of Engineering in Structural Dynamics, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
Masters of Science in Mechanical Design, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Design, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.

Providing civil engineering consulting, mechanical engineering, gearbox design direction, structural dynamics and mechanical design consulting, expert testimony, failure analysis, forensic engineering, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

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Mechanical Engineer, Gear Designer, Expert Witness

Served engineering software company specializing in software for gear rating and analysis design.

Gear Design and Production Specialist

Was responsible for research and analysis; design audit; failure analysis and expert witness. Designed gears ranging from small instrument gears for low noise application to large gears for 150 ton capacity overhead crane. Clients included Clients include Alcoa, General Electric, 3M, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Noria, Kaiser Engineers, Carollo Engineers, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Martin Marietta, U.S. Elevator, Port of Oakland, San Francisco Municipal Railroad (Cable Car Restoration Project), State of Montana DNRC, Idaho Power Company, North Little Rock Electric Department, Louisiana Hydroelectric, Portland General Electric, several major U.S. and foreign gear manufacturers, and over forty wind turbine companies.

Visiting Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, A Major University

Courses in machine design

Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering, A Major University

Courses in machine design, material science and vibration analysis. Co-director of tribology laboratory. Research in Hertzian substance fatigue and polishing wear.

Staff Engineer, Western Gear Corporation

Directed a program of research and development for carburized and ground gearing; designed a computer program for specifying tooth modifications for heavily loaded gears. Established procedures for analyzing the dynamics response and stability of rotor/bearing systems; and implemented finite element analyses of stresses and deflection for seismic qualification of gearboxes and lubrication systems.

Teaching Assistant, University of California Berkeley

Lectured on conventional gear design. Researched bending stress in non-involute gears.

Director of Gearbox Design Group, Sier Bath Gear Company

Was responsible for design of high-speed planetary and parallel shaft gearboxes for gas turbines, planetary gearboxes for off highway vehicles and multi-power path speed reducers for water jet propulsion pumps.

Gear Designer, Safety Electrical Corporation

Designed hypoid gearboxes for rapid transit drives and spiral bevel gearboxes for railroad locomotive traction drives and electric generator drives.

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registered Professional Engineer, MT

HONORS AND AWARDS
Recipient of the AGMA Technical Division Executive Committee Award
Recipient of the STLE Wilbur Deutch Memorial Award
Recipient of the Technical Achievement Award, American Wind Energy Association

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Gears Manufacture Association
Gear Rating Committee
ISO Gear Rating Tack Committee
Scuffing Committee
AGMA/AWEA Wind Turbine Committee
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Gear Dynamics
American Wind Energy Association
Gearbox Working Group
AWEA Standards Committee
ASM International
Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers
Gears and Gear Lubrication Committee
Tribology Transactions
Gear Technology
The Journal of Gear Manufacturing
Montana Society of Engineers

PUBLICATIONS
Numerous publications on topics related to dynamic loads on gear teeth, calculating the dynamic factor, finite element analysis of spur gears, vibration analysis of four-mass systems, gear bending stress analysis, gear strength geometry factor for shaper cut gears, involute gears, transmissions and automation in design, gearbox quality, industrial gear drives, predicting gear life, designing minimum-weight gears, gear lubrication, gear fatigue life for wind turbines, polishing wear, reliable gearboxes for wind turbines, gear tooth calculations, friction, lubrication, and wear of gears, gear failure analysis, hardened and ground spur gear design, requirements for wind turbine gearboxes, gear damage analysis, microstructures, load capacity ratings for wind turbine gears, dynamic load calculation, sizing worm gears, gear micropitting, oil cleanliness in wind turbine gearboxes, hot gear drives troubleshooting, surfacetopography and contact fatigue in mixed lubrication, false brinelling and fretting corrosion, oils with high pressure-viscosity coefficient, and more.

Author of operating instructions, tutorials and theoretical background for gear rating, gear tribology analysis, and gear design synthesis programs.

Presented several seminars on design, analysis, lubrication and failure analysis of gears to professional societies and the gear and lubrication industries.

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