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Bearings Consultant
Expertise in design of heavy-duty machine components and rotating machinery, finite-element stress, thermal, and dynamic analysis of bearings, seals and drive trains, and failure analysis.

Additional areas of specialty include bearings and seals for gun drills, drive and hammer mill bearings, bearings on crushers, separators, crushing roll spalling, clinker compaction model, roll sleeve slip, FEA stress on various components, coal pulverizer bearing failures, pulverizer bearing redesign, boiler stoker bearing failures, bearing failure, and motor shaft stress.

Extensive knowledge regarding bearing preload practice and spacer grind, boiler feedwater pump bearing failures, drilling rig bearings, ID fan bearings, caster turret bearings, contact stress analysis, cold rolling model additions, vertical edger roll bearings, CTM work roll bearing/chock FEA studies, CTM set-up model development, various caster turret bearings, printing press bearers and bearings, APACHE main rotor bearing, caster turret bearing, CAD system revisions, 4000 psi valve failures (FEA), high pressure flanges (FEA), clinker crusher model, and CTM backup roll bearings.

This associate has demonstrated specific expertise relative to cement crusher bearing preload, hammermill bearing over temperature, paper slurry pump bearings, compressor bearings, high roll stack bending model with side shift, APACHE crash/TR bearing, gate valve failures (FEA), cervical spine, coller FEA model, FEA of various medical components, work roll bending bearing/chock FEA, bar mill torque amplification study, space shuttle LOX turbopump bearing, rolling mill drive static stress rating, morgan gearbox/gears/bearings, mine shaft fan bearings, fan bearing and vibration, and work roll bending bearing failure

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Aviation, Gas Turbines, Manufacturing, Steel Production

EDUCATION
M.S., Applied Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.

Providing mechanical engineering, heavy-duty machine component engineering, structural engineering, failure analysis, forensic engineering, consulting, expert witnessing and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

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Head of the Applied Mechanics Group, Bethlehem Steel Corporation

Supervised engineers, technicians and programmers in the development and application of analytical models and finite element techniques to analyze equipment and process design problems on steel rolling mills, marine, and mining equipment. Responsible for university research projects on heat transfer studies of jet cooling and FEA approaches to metal deformation.

Corporate Consulting Mechanical Engineer, Bethlehem Steel Corporation

Provided analytical services in areas of mechanical engineering and mechanical systems, finite element analysis, bearings, gears, and steel rolling technology.

Research Engineer, Bethlehem Steel Corporation

Developed mathematical modeling system for strip rolling mills, including deformation and distortion of rolling surfaces due to loading and thermal effects. Conducted transient and steady state dynamic analysis of mill drives.

Supervisor, Bearing and Seal Research Group, Avco/Lycoming Division

Was responsible for theoretical work and research programs on high speed ball bearings, roller bearings and mainshaft seals for small gas turbine engines. Group performed all bearing and seal design work and problem solving for advanced engines.

Research Engineer, Franklin Institute Research Labs

Worked in the area of rolling element and fluid film bearings.

Design Analyst, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Performed analysis, design and problem solving on gas turbine engine mainshaft bearings. Performed heat transfer studies on engine components. Developed prototype oil-filmed damper for mainshaft application.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Barbour Stockwell Turbine Co., Valco Industries Corporation, Grundler Crusher Co., Franklin Institute Research Labs, Fuller Company, Southwestern Portland Cement Co., Combustion Engineering, Energy Technology, Inc., Advanced Energy Supply Co., Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Arthur D. Little, Inc., Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Harris Corporation, Hughes Helicopter, Inc., Voest Alpine AG, Linz, Austria, Rexroth Corporation, Polysius Corporation, Germany, Torrington Company, National Cement Company, Thermoguard Company, Beloit Corporation, Ingersoll-Rand Company, General Electric Company, Lakeside Equipment Company, McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co., Olsen Technologies, Inc., Jerome Medical Group, Glowe-Duffy, Inc., Inland Steel, NASA, FEC/UNITED, Raritan River Steel Co., TLT Babcock, Buffalo Forge Co., LTV Steel Co.

Testified at four cases concerning Bearings and Stress Analysis.

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Professional Engineer, State of Pennsylvania

HONORS AND AWARDS
Kelley Award, Presented by the AISE for the best paper that significantly enhanced the industry for work on mathematical modeling of multi-stand steel strip rolling

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers
Association of Iron and Steel Engineers
ASM International

PUBLICATIONS
Published over 24 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in the areas of the analysis and design of heavy duty manufacturing machines and equipment.

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