PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Preventing failures and improving performance

Most products experience shock and vibration loads during their service life.  These loads can damage the product and reduce its life.  It is important to quantify these loads and how they affect performance and service life. 

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This has been a focus of my career's work, which has included

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• Developing shock mitigation and vibration isolation schemes for fragile vehicle-borne equipment subjected to extreme environmental conditions

• Qualification testing and performance evaluation of sports equipment, nuclear reactor electrical cabinets, compressors, shipboard equipment, aircraft systems, and industrial equipment

• Failure investigations of vehicle suspensions, railway track, rolling mills, plate stretchers, industrial fans, transmissions, electrical equipment, and many other types of equipment and machinery