Laboratory, Inspection and
Testing Experience
- Wind Tunnel Analysis / Microclimate Analysis / Seismic Testing
- Performed Wind Tunnel Testing and Analysis of preexisting site conditions, proposed
renovations, individual buildings and structures including specific building components;
Performed interior and exterior microclimate analysis for environmental factors inclusive
of solar, temperature, humidity, dustfall, airborne contaminants, lighting levels and
acoustical conditions and properties. Assisted in component and
sub-assembly seismic testing at S.U.N.Y at Buffalo's MCEER research facility;
- Environmental Controls Testing and Energy Efficiency Analysis
- Interior and Exterior Lighting Levels Testing; Lighting Energy Efficiency Analysis;
Interior and Exterior Auditory Analysis; Acoustical Conditions and Properties Evaluation;
Solar Efficiency Determinations; Heat Gain - Heat Loss Environmental Controls Studies;
Building Envelope Performance Evaluations; Building Ventilation Efficiency Testing and
Ventilation Balancing Analysis; Fenestration Efficiency Analysis;
- Mechanical Testing
- Tensile / Compression / Impact / Jominy / Torsional / Shear /
Impact / Ductility / Bending Moment Testing: Ferrous, Non-Ferrous, Rubber, Concrete,
Glass, Wood, Ceramics, Fasteners and Composite materials inclusive of construction
materials; Hardness: Brinell, Rockwell; Coating Typing Identification; Coating
Weight; and Surface Roughness.
- Nondestructive Testing
- Ultrasonics; Magnetic Particle; Liquid Penetrant; Eddy Current; Visual Inspection and
Metrology
Metallurgical Testing
- ARL Spark Emission Spectroscopy; LECO C/S analysis; ARL X-Ray
Diffraction Spectroscopy; Surface Hardness Testing: Rockwell, Brinell and New Age;
Macroinspection for defect analysis; Microhardness Testing: Knoop and Vickers DPH;
Microinspection: Case Depth, Decarburization Depth, Martensite-Austinite Rating, Compound
Layer Coating Depth, Plating Thickness; Microstructure Evaluation: Ferrite, Pearlite,
Cementite, Martensite, Retained Austinite, Steadite, Pearlite Type Rating of Steels
inclusive of Grain Size rating and Forging Grain Flow, Micro and Microstructure
Evaluation, Cast Iron Graphite Rating and Typology Determination Typing and Rating of
Aluminum and other Non-Ferrous Microstructures; Macroetching of steels, forgings and
Aluminum; Photography / Photomacrography / Photomicrograph utilizing Leitz, Olympus,
Canon, Nikon and Sony equipment; Computerized Image Analysis utilizing Nikon, Olympus,
Sony, Leitz, Canon, Struers, LECO and Clemex equipment and software.
- Environmental Chamber Corrosion Testing
- Salt Spray; Humidity and Intergranular Corrosion in Stainless
Steels.
- Chemistry
- Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy; Optical Emission Spectroscopy;
Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy; Spark Emission Spectroscopy; Classical Wet
Chemistry; Basic Oxygen Demand (BOD); Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD); Waste Water Phenols;
Industrial Coolant Analysis, Gas Chromatograph; Hydrogen in Aluminum gas analysis and LECO
H,O,N,C and S analysis.
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