Anil Avadhanula
Santa Clarita,CA
Summary
Adaptable Metallurgist offering 15-year background developing and evaluating metallurgical processes for characterization and failure analysis. Expertise in distinguishing and working with wide range of metals such as iron, steel, Aluminum and aerospace grade heat-resistant alloys and metals. Recognized for outstanding technical and analytical skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Metallurgist
Dickson Testing Co., Inc
09.2008 - Current
- Evaluated field materials like Iron, Steel, Aluminum and various heat resistant aerospace grade alloys to assess compliance with established specifications
- Micro, Macro and Micro hardness evaluations on predominantly aircraft grade steels, Iron, Nickel and Cobalt based Super alloys, Titanium and Aluminum
- Grain Size evaluation on mounted specimens and full x-sections per various standards
- Identification and measurement of various surface contaminations and conditions like Carburization/ decarburization, Nitriding case depth, Alpha Case, IGO, IGA, IGC, ICO, micro cracks, oxide layers, recast layer, end grain pitting, alloy depletion and various macro defects like laps, shear, cracks through metallographic and micro hardness measurements
- Failure analysis of fractured materials using SEM and micro/macroscopic techniques.
- Tensile and Corrosion induced testing
- Quantitative analysis of various phases and defects like primary alpha, delta ferrite, porosity, shrinkage cavities using comparison, analytical and multi phase analysis software
- Evaluating weld defects, measuring dimensions and tolerances per customer requirements
- Identify various corrosion products on salt-sprayed, stress-corroded, embitterment specimens and characterization per ASTM G-28/34/47/110, ASTM A-262, and ASTM F-945
- Suggesting proper sectioning techniques and areas according to blue print, test plan, specification or customer requirements.
- Investigated causes of internal and customer rejections to implement corrective actions
- Performed failure analysis on broken LCF, SCC bars and recommended corrective actions
Teaching Assistant
Materials Labs
01.2007 - 05.2008
- Organized Labs and Lectures for various Materials Labs.
Integrated Micro Sensors
06.2007 - 08.2007
- Characterization of Micro Column Arrays by Laser Ablation on ti-6242 and IRBAS.
- Characterization of Ti 6242 (Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo-0.08 Si) and IRBAS (70%-Si3N4, 30% BAS) with MCA's.
- Using SEM (JEOL JSM6330F), Plasma Etching (Plasma Etch Inc.), XRD (SiemenD5000), α-step Profilometer (Tencor Tech.), High-Resolution Optical Microscope, characterized Ti-6242 and IRBAS samples with and without MCA's
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems
Research Assistant
08.2006 - 05.2007
- Evaluate elastic constants by simply measuring wave lengths of patterns developed in wrinkled thin films
Education
Masters - Materials Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, TX2008
Bachelors - Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
J.N.T. University
India2006
Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering -
Government Polytechnic Kancharapalem
India2003
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Materials Characterization:
- Metallograph (ZeissObserverD1), Micro hardness Testing (Struers Durascan-70), SEM (Nova-230)
- Mechanical Property Testing: Tensile, creep, stress rupture and Fatigue analysis
- MS Office: Word, excel, Power point
- Failure Analysis
Accomplishments
- Used apple Ipad to develop a procedure for drawing grain size maps.
- Authored procedure for fractography analysis using SEM by renting an SEM at Department of Materials and Science,UCLA
Certification
- Grain Size Evaluation per GE E50TF133 Issue S11 , GE - Aviation
- Grain Size Codification, Snecma
Timeline
Metallurgist
Dickson Testing Co., Inc
09.2008 - Current
Integrated Micro Sensors
06.2007 - 08.2007
Teaching Assistant
Materials Labs
01.2007 - 05.2008
Research Assistant
08.2006 - 05.2007
Masters - Materials Engineering
University of Houston
Bachelors - Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
J.N.T. University
Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering -
Government Polytechnic Kancharapalem
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