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High Temperature Materials Performance, Expert Consultant
Expertise in materials selection and utilization, corrosion performance of materials, design for corrosion control, site surveys, audits and inspections, inspection of underground storage tanks, litigation and insurance work, troubleshooting and failure analysis, risk minimization.

This KKAI Associate also specializes in testing and simulation studies, engineering services and technical support in metallurgy, corrosion and high-temperature materials performance for all sectors of industry, application of metallurgy and corrosion control principles and risk minimization associated with materials, design appraisals, advisory work, inspection, site surveys, and failure investigations.

Additional experience includes testing and simulation studies for industry, local authorities, government agencies, insurers, loss adjusters, arbitrators and the legal profession, major plant failures including process plants, refineries, gas turbines boilers, pipelines and buildings, explosions, fires, flood damages and structural collapse, malfunctioning machinery, component breakdowns, electrical failures, cargo condition surveys, buildings and infrastructure, supports and guard rails, poorly fabricated parts and equipment, expert witness in metallurgy, materials selection, failure analysis, design and corrosion-related issues.

Highly experienced in areas including materials, design and corrosion control for engineers, management, designers, operators, inspectors and risk assessors, corrosion engineering, corrosion in the oil and gas industries, troubleshooting and failure analysis on malfunctioning machinery and equipment, component breakdowns, structural collapse, fire, heat and flood damage, underground storage tanks, reactors, machinery, aerosol cans, chairs, plumbing, elevators and escalators, automobiles and transportation vehicles, ships and cargo, stress corrosion cracking of copper tubing under elastomeric insulation, formicary (ant-nest) corrosion in ACR copper tubing, surveying underground storage tanks, high temperature oxidation and hot corrosion.

Extensive failure analysis work including failures in copper tubing, failure of power generator systems, premature failure of sliding doors, refinery fire, gas turbine failures, ignitor failures in gas furnaces, chair failures, elevator cable failures, boiler tube explosion, failed acid-carrying road tanker, urea plant explosion, hydraulic cylinder failures, explosion at alumina plant, fuel oil corrosion in boiler, gas cooler failures in sulfuric acid plant, coating failures on generator panels, failure of large water main, materials assessments [FFP] after refinery fire, steel cargo damages following voyage, resolving scc in insulated copper tubing, condition survey of aluminized steel in underground culvert, duct work evaluations following fires, dielectric coupling failure and flood damage in high rise buildings

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Automotive, Government, Insurance, Legal, Manufacturing, Refining, Shipping, Transportation, Utilities

EDUCATION
PhD, Metallurgy, University of Manchester
MSc, Metallurgy, University of Manchester
BSc, (Hons), Metallurgy, University of Manchester

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.

Providing metallurgical consulting, corrosion and materials engineering consulting, high temperature materials performance expertise, failure analysis, forensic investigation and analysis, expert testimony, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients

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Corrosion and Materials Consultant

Has provided materials utilization and corrosion control to all sectors of industry, trade organizations, government, legal profession, insurance underwriters and loss adjusters. Offered technical support, including metallurgical, analytical, corrosion testing and evaluation services including design appraisals, advisory work, specification reviews, site surveys and audits, laboratory research and testing, troubleshooting and failure investigations, seminar preparation and presentations, special expertise in high temperature corrosion and control, including materials assessments after explosions and fires.

Senior Engineer, Cortest Engineering Services, Inc., Houston, TX; Rockville, MD

Established UK office/laboratory, Cortest Laboratories, Ltd., in Sheffield, UK
Provided materials utilization and testing, contract R & D, site surveys, troubleshooting.

Director, Independent Total Inspection, Inc., Houston, TX; ITI, Ltd., Watford, UK

Provided Coating Inspection, surveys, appraisal reports, troubleshooting, seminars.

Professor, tenured lecturer, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) - Corrosion and Protection Center, Manchester, England

Teaching and research - MSc course in Corrosion Science and Engineering, MSc course in Terotechnology, design and materials selection, basic corrosion principles, atmospheric corrosion, high temperature environments, troubleshooting and failure analysis

Senior Consultant, Corrosion And Protection Centre Industrial Services, (CAPCIS), Manchester, England

UK and worldwide advisory & consulting work, site surveys, laboratory testing and simulation, failure analysis, litigation / insurance work

Faculty Staff, Center for Professional Advancement (CfPA), NJ; Amsterdam, Holland

Seminars, industrial corrosion, oil / gas corrosion

Project Officer, Imperial Chemical Industries - Metals Division, (IMI), Ltd., UK

R/D on materials for aerospace and gas turbine industries, general work with IMI products - copper, titanium

Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin

Seminars on The Utilization of Stainless Steels and Overcoming the Challenge of Corrosion

Faculty, NACE International

Seminar on High Temperature Corrosion

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

UK Government, Member, Committee on Corrosion
Technical Support, Overseas Development Administration, Mexico. IIE, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Consultant, Nickel Development Institute (NiDI)
Technical Expert, Sopheon / (Teltech) - Resource Network Corporation
Expert, Technical Advisory Service to Attorneys - (TASA)
Who’s Who - Environmental Registry

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
C.Eng. - Chartered Engineer
FICorr - Fellow, Institute of Corrosion
FIM -Fellow, Institute of Materials (formerly Metals)
Corrosion Specialist - NACE International
NACE Fellow - NACE International

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (formerly Institute of Metals)
ASM International (American Society of Metals)
Institute of Corrosion (I.Corr) (formerly Institution of Corrosion Science & Technology)
NACE – International (formerly National Association of Corrosion Engineers)

PUBLICATIONS
Author of over 100 technical papers on corrosion and materials performance, aqueous and general corrosion, high temperature corrosion, engineering design, risk assessment and awareness, and corrosion technology transfer.
Over 100 presentations, including plenary lectures, invited lectures at international conferences and local professional societies, radio and television presentations, video presentation on designing for corrosion control, high-temperature seminar for NACE (author and presenter), corrosion control for food processing industries (NiDI presentations).

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