Experience

• Jata Materials LLC,

  Owner, Technical Consultant Jata Materials Solutions, LLC

  Owner and Technical Consultant: Thirty five years of Experience and expertise in the areas of Metallic alloy Development, Processing, Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior, Fatigue and Crack Growth (Cryogenic- High Temperatures). Component Performance for Airframe, Turbine Engine Materials, Landing Gear, Materials for Space assets, Solid State Joining; Aqueous Corrosion and Additive Manufacturing. Short Courses offered in the areas of Microstructures, Fatigue and Fracture, High Temperature Fatigue of Superalloys; Creep-Fatigue interactions; Corrosion and Corrosion Protection,

• California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

  Adjunct Faculty

  Teaching Fracture and Failure Analysis of aerospace materials, Introductory Materials Science, Advanced Mechanical Behavior and Differential equations

• Air Force Research Laboratory

  Principal Materials Engineer

  - Worked on metallic materials for hypersonic applications;
  - Team member life prediction group for aircraft engine turbine materials
  - Did Corrosion Strategic planning for the AF commander S&T
  - Technical co-leader for Aircraft Corrosion group

• Jata Materials Solutions LLC

  Technical Lead

  Currently Technical Consultant and Senior Advisory Role to Organizations dealing with Structure-Property Relationships in Metallic Materials; Fatigue and Fracture, High Temperature Fatigue, Failure Analysis and Corrective Action; Materials Selection; Data Analysis, Advice on Corrosion Performance of Substrate/Coating Failures; Corrosion Modeling; Collaborative work on Additive Manufacturing; Adviser on Aerospace Aluminum Alloys including 7000, 2000 aluminum and Al-Li alloys. Provide training and short courses on Microstructure, Deformation, Fatigue and Fracture, Failure Analysis. Will travel to customer location. Available by appointment

• Jata Materials Solutions, LLC

  Owner Jata Materials Solutions, LLC

  Dr Jata offers Short Courses and to engineers and scientists interested in the areas of Metallurgy, Fatigue and Fracture, Corrosion and Corrosion Protection. Taught Short Courses for ASM International, US Air Force, IIT, and Engineers from Private Industry.
  Specialist in Aluminum, Titanium and Ni base Superalloys.
  Consulting and Data Analysis Services; Over Thirty years of Experience in the area of Metallic alloys. Solid State Joining. Additively Manufactured Metallic Components.