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    Dale E. Alexander

    Dale E. Alexander, Ph.D., P.E.

    Principal

    Senior Director

    Materials

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    Experienced materials consultant with demonstrated proficiency in selecting and testing materials, investigating and reconstructing material failures, and developing scientifically supportable recommendations and conclusions.  Dr. Alexander’s materials expertise is applicable to all categories of industrial, military, commercial, and consumer products.  He also provides opinion testimony as a materials expert in litigated matters in state and federal courts and international venues.

    Dr. Alexander’s experience spans a variety of such industry segments as aviation, transportation, power generation, heavy equipment and machinery, medical devices, and household products. He leverages his knowledge of fracture mechanisms, corrosion, wear and degradation, microstructure, physical properties, and material joining to understand and solve problems with both non-metallic materials (polymers, elastomers, GFRP), and metallic alloys, including ferrous alloys (steel, stainless steel, iron-based super alloys), and non-ferrous alloys (aluminum, copper, brass, nickel-based super alloys).

    Before joining ESi in 2001, Dr. Alexander worked for ten years as a materials scientist at Argonne National Laboratory’s Materials Science Division. During his tenure there, his research resulted in dozens of publications in peer reviewed journals and invitations to present at international organizations and conferences.

    Publications

    • Failure Investigation of an Aircraft Crankshaft Gear Connection, Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, January 2012
    • Hardening and Precipitate Character in Proton Irradiated Model Pressure Vessel Steel Alloys, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enviornmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems, January 2002
    • Hardening and Microstructure of Model Reactor Pressure Vessel Steel Alloys Using Proton Irradiation, Proceedings of the Symposium Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials, January 2001
    • Correlating Radiation Exposure with Embrittlement: Comparative Studies of Electron and Neutron Irradiated Pressure Vessel Alloys, American Society for Testing and Materials, January 2000
    • Understanding the Role of Defect Production in Radiation Embrittlement of Reactor Pressure Vessels, Ninth International Symposium on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems-Water Reactors, January 1999
    • Modeling the Post-Yield Flow Behavior After Neutron and Electron Irradiation of Steels and Iron-Base Alloys, Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials, January 1999
    • Exploring the Use of Pulsed Irradiations for Studying the Transient Sink Formed by Cascade Producing Radiation, Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials, January 1999
    • Anomalous Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Characterization of Model Pressure Vessel Alloy Microstructures, Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials, January 1999
    • Deformation Behavior in Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels as a Clue to Understanding Irradiation Hardening, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (published jointly by ASME, JSME, SFEN), January 1998
    • The Role of Gamma Rays and Freely-Migrating Defects in Reactor Pressure Vessel Embrittlement, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry, January 1998
    • See CV for further publications

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