Current Staff
Our current staff consists of 13 engineers, 3 lab technicians and 1 office manager who have the requisite knowledge to keep our business running smoothly. The engineering staff includes 10 PhD’s with Doctorate’s in Computational Fracture Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace, Industrial, Nuclear and Mathematics. The remaining 3 engineering staff members have Bachelors and/or Masters Degrees in Chemistry/Advanced Polymers, Aerospace Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Half of our technical staff (6 engineers and 2 technicians) were former employees of Battelle-Columbus and represent over 245 years of Battelle service.
Organigram
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Dr. Gery Wilkowski Director of Innovation |
Mr. Gary Hattery Director of Administrative Operations |
Dr. Frederick (Bud) Brust Director of Analytical Operations |
Dr. Yunior Hioe Director of Laboratory Operations |
Ms. Rita Wilkowski Office Manager |
Mr. Ken Bagnoli Sr. Research Leader |
Mr. Mike Fishman Technician |
Mr. Russell Hattery Technician |
Mr. Richard (Rick) Heggs Sr. Research Leader |
Mr. Lance Hill Senior Research Leader |
Dr. Prabhat Krishnaswamy Sr. Research Leader |
Dr. Jim Kennedy Sr. Research Leader |
Dr. Robert (Bob) Kurth Sr. Research Leader |
Ms. Elizabeth Kurth Research Engineer |
Mr. Paul Mincer Master Technician |
Dr. Fabian Orth Research Leader |
Dr. Ed Punch Research Leader |
Ms. Ann Roty Financial Administrator |
Dr. Cédric Sallaberry Sr. Research Mathematician |
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Mr Joel Swartzentruber Student Intern |
Mr Matthew Walburn Student Intern |
Key Technical Capabilities
- Mechanical performance, especially fracture and fatigue, of various structures
- Full-scale pipe and pressure vessel fracture testing
- Weld fracture in the heat-affect zone (HAZ) and local brittle zone (LBZ)
- Hydrogen cracking and stress corrosion cracking of welded structures
- Application-specific FEA software development
- Constitutive modeling of metals, plastics, and composites
- Numerical simulation of welding and other joining processes
- Statistics/reliability-based structural integrity assessment
- Weld residual stress/distortion/microstructure simulations
- Failure analysis of mechanical components and structural joints
- Residual stress effects on fracture, stress-corrosion cracking, and fatigue
- Probabilistic Modeling and Risk Analysis
- System Engineering including requirements and performance specification development
- Full-scale structure testing – in lab and high energy site
- Development of industry and government codes and standards