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Materials Engineering Solutions, LLC

Materials Engineering Solutions, LLC

Orchard Park Drive
Frisco, Texas 75034
(469) 777-6684

Website https://metallurgyexperts.com

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Materials Engineering Solutions LLC provides metallurgical failure analysis, corrosion analysis, materials selection for design, engineering product design, engineering solutions, expert consulting, expert witness in litigation support, and engineering education assessment.

Knowledge based understanding of fracture mechanisms in various materials in micro and macro scales and application of fundamentals of engineering and fracture mechanics in support of failures analysis. Effects of fatigue stress, time dependent loading, and environment on the crack-growth rate assist in evaluation and estimation of life assessment and root cause of failure in products.

The company provides litigation support and expert consulting services related to product liability review, intellectual property, forensic engineering documentation, metallurgical engineering, and on-site engineering investigation.

Services

Materials Engineering Solutions offers the following services:

Engineering Solutions and Consulting
• Metallurgy, Corrosion, and Materials Selection
• Materials Failure and Fracture Analysis
• Engineering Product Design and Manufacturing
• Engineering Solutions

Education and Training
• Engineering and Technology Education
• Accreditation and Curriculum Assessment Review
• Workshop and Training

Litigation Support and Expert Consulting
• Product Liability Review
• Intellectual Property
• Forensic Engineering Documentation
• Metallurgical Engineering Expert Witness
• On-Site Engineering Investigation


Litigation Support Services

With our scientific and engineering practice expertise, we are well-prepared to assist you in expert witness services and litigation support. The expertise and support of services include product liability failure analysis, materials selection and design, engineering design process, and manufacturing and design defects.

Our 45 years of combined academic and industry experience enables us to provide the unique expert opinion in materials failure analysis in support of litigations.

• Materials Failure Analysis
• Failure Analysis of Materials and Structures
• Product Liability Evaluation
• Corrosion Failure Analysis
• Welding Failure Analysis
• Materials Characterization
• Forensic Metallography & Fractography
• Metallurgical Expert Witness Testimony
• Litigation Consulting

Areas of Expertise

Additional Expertise:

Corrosion Engineering, Corrosion Risk Assessment, Materials Testing, Materials Selection in Design, Galvanized Steel, Manufacturing Defects, Manufacturing Accidents, Pipelines, Welding.

Profile

Materials Engineering Solutions, an independent metallurgical engineering consulting firm, provides services in forensic metallurgical engineering and materials failure analysis, mechanical testing and characterization, materials selection and manufacturing processes for products and industrial equipment, welding failure analysis, and corrosion and surface failure investigation.

Dr. Reza Mirshams is the Founder and earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Metallurgy and Metallurgical Engineering. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer with 45 years of combined industrial and academic experience. Dr. Mirshams is a tenured full professor in engineering technology and has taught courses in the areas of metallurgy, manufacturing processes of materials, failure analysis of materials, fracture mechanics, fatigue, creep, engineering product design and development, engineering mechanics, materials selection, and mechanical behavior and fracture mechanisms.

Areas Served

All States

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Professional Experience

Professional Experience and Employment History

2001 - Present, Licensed Professional Engineer in Metallurgical Engineering (P.E.), Texas.

Employment History
2000 - Present: Tenured Full Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, UNT, Denton, Texas.

2010 - Present: Courtesy Joint Appointment, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, UNT, Denton Texas.

1987 – 2000: Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor (Tenured), Department of Mechanical Engineering, SUBR, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and collaboration with LSU-Department of Mechanical Engineering.


Licenses

Registered Professional Engineer, State of Texas, Certificate No. 89086


Affiliations

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)


Qualifications

Ph.D. degree in Industrial Metallurgy.
Licensed professional Engineer (PE).
Tenured Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering.


Seminars & Training

1. Corrosion Mitigation and Failure Prevention Workshop, Denton, October 2015
2. “Nuclear Energy Materials,” Oak Ridge national Laboratory, July 2010
3. “Leadership Workshop,” for UNT Deans, Associate Deans and Chairs, March 2008.
4. “Joint 2002 Contractors Meeting in Metallic Materials and Ceramic Materials,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Bar Harbor, Maine, August 12-14, 2002.
5. “Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)-Fabrication and hot topics,” MRS Workshop, November 2000.
6. “Measuring mechanical properties in nanometer regime,” MRS Workshop, Boston, November 2000.


Publications

Recent Publications

1. Reza Mirshams, “A Case Study on Using Corrosion Analysis in Forensic Engineering,” Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, Volm 5, 2017, 4, 642-646.
2. PR Adhikari, R Mirshams, “Study of Knowledge-Based System (KBS) and Decision Making Methodologies in Materials Selection for Lightweight Aircraft Metallic Structures,” Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology 5 (1), 1-19, 2017.
3. Mehrooz. Zamanzadeh, Reza Mirshams, Peyman Taheri, “Cathodic Protection, Defective Coatings, Corrosion Pitting, Stress Corrosion Cracking, Soil,” NACE - Corrosion Risk Management Conference Proceedings, May 23-25, 2016, Houston, Texas.
4. Mehrooz. Zamanzadeh, Edward Larkin, Reza Mirshams, “Fatigue Failure Analysis Case Studies,” Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, Volume 15, Issue 6, 803-809, 2015.


Professional References

The University of Birmingham, UK
University of North Texas


Education

Ph.D., Industrial Metallurgy, University of Birmingham, UK, 1980
M.S., Metallurgical Engineering, University of Tehran. 1973


Articles Published by Materials Engineering Solutions, LLC

Link A Case Study on Using Corrosion Analysis in Forensic Engineering

Material failures occur in products due to changes in the original characteristics that prevent satisfactory performance of a functional system for its intended purpose and could produce losses to human life and economic infrastructure. Metals’ characteristics change due to cyclic stress, strain, and corrosion. This paper presents a case study that deal with the application of corrosion fundamentals in the determination of the origin of failures in a metallic part —galvanic corrosion failure in a water supply plumbing system. Metallographic examination, chemical analysis of the parts, and fractography were conducted, and the cause of failures was determined as a galvanic corrosion.

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Link A Review of Oil and Gas Pipelines Corrosion Risk Assessment

Pipelines are among the most common means used for transporting hazardous gases and liquids in the United States. However, underground pipelines are aging and are at risk of corrosion failure due to coating degradation/disbondment, pitting corrosion and stress corrosion cracking.

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Link Fatigue Failure Analysis Case Studies

Fatigue fracture can occur in many components such as fasteners and tubular pole structures. In this paper, fatigue failure mechanisms have been described and the application of the principles for failure analysis for each case will be presented. Cyclic loading at stresses above the fatigue limit of the material can initiate cracks at the surface or at internal defects.

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