Resume & Publications

George Laird
Predictive Engineering, Inc.
4128 SE Crystal Springs Blvd
Portland, OR 97202

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Table of Content

1. Education
2. Consulting Activities
3. Research Experience & Interest
4. Teaching Experiences
5. Honors & Awards
6. Professional Activities
7. Publications
8. Books
9. Non-Refereed Reports
10. Presentations
11. Significant Reviews of Refereed Materials

EDUCATION

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University (1982)
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University (1987)
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University (1993)

CONSULTANT ACTIVITES

Finite element analysis for the design of lightweight, structurally optimized components and structures, thermal management of electronic assemblies, dynamic optimization of electronic assemblies and large vibratory equipment, transient thermal analysis for heat treatment optimization, and electro-magnetic analysis of an anti-lock brake system.

Metallurgical consulting on the design of new alloys for the pulp and paper industry, mining and mineral processing, and rolling mills. Alloy optimization for severe wear environments. Specialized electron microscopy for chemical, wear, and failure analyses. Author of Abrasion-Resistant Cast Iron Handbook.

Author of over 40 publications on wear, fracture, and finite element analysis.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE & INTEREST

U.S. Bureau of Mines: November 1984 to February 1996 - Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical and material engineering research and development with an emphasis on composites (metal-matrix and polymeric), ceramics, and ferrous alloys. Research has concentrated on the linkage of experimental (laser moire interferometry and a variety of other mechanical tests) and modeling techniques to explore the mechanical behavior of layered, fiber, particulate or carbide reinforced materials.

Wear-related failure phenomena such as those associated with abrasive, corrosive, impact wear mechanisms, or mechanical/thermal stress conditions. Understanding the mechanisms and material/environment interactions that lead to improved materials or processes.

Skills in elasticity, plasticity, vibration, fracture mechanics, effects of material processing (interfaces and liquid-solid and solid-solid transformation behavior in ferrous alloys), static and dynamic contact phenomena, and heat transfer (solidification, solid-state transformations and thermal/stress modeling).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

FEA short courses on general finite element technology, dynamics, heat transfer, and modeling.

Instructor at Oregon State University, fall 1990 (Statics 211) and winter 1991 (Dynamics 212).

Developed and taught short course titled "Recent Advances in White Cast Iron Technology" in 1991.

Whitewater kayak instructor (American Canoe Association).

HONORS & AWARDS

1995-Allan B. Dove Medal Award (Wire Association International) for paper titled "Development of an Instrumented Impact Test for Wire," by K.K. Schrems, G. Laird II, and N.W. Duttlinger.

1994-Invited keynote talk to the 13th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for Electron Microscopy and Institute of Metals and Materials Australasia.

1992-Best paper award for American Foundrymen's Society Transactions paper on "Microstructures of NiHard I, NiHard IV and High-Cr White Cast Irons." This paper was subsequently translated and published by Gießerei-Praxis (a German Foundry Magazine).

U.S. Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, outstanding performance awards for 1986, '88, '89, '90, '91, '93, '94, & '95.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

Registered Professional Engineer, License No. 13327, Oregon.

1979 to present-member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); ASME OSU Student Chapter, Chairperson 1981, and ASME Willamette Valley Section, Chairperson 1991.

1988 to present-member of the American Foundrymen's Society 5-D Special Irons Committee on Abrasion Resistant Irons.

Chairman of the Finite Element Applications Session at the 1990 ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference.

Specific technical and personal references available upon request

PUBLICATIONS

1. G. Laird II, W. K. Collins, and R. Blickensderfer. Crack Propagation and Spalling of White Cast Iron Balls Subjected to Repeated Impacts, in Wear of Materials 1987, ed. K.C. Ludema, ASME 2 (1987) 797-806; and Wear 124 (1988) 217-235.

2. R. Blickensderfer and G. Laird II. A Pin-on-Drum Abrasive Wear Test and Comparison With Other Pin Tests, in Tribological Mechanisms and Wear Problems in Materials, eds. P. S. Godavarti, A. T. Santhanam, and K. L. Murty, ASM International (1987) 71-83; and J. Test. Eval. 16 (1988) 516-526.

3. R. Blickensderfer, J. H. Tylczak, B. W. Madsen, and G. Laird II. Wear Measurements in an Ore Feed Chute, in Antiwear '88, Institute of Metals, London (1988) 7.1-7.7.

4. G. Laird II. NiHard 4 Revisited, AFS Trans. 96 (1988) 799-806.

5. G. Laird II. An Investigation of Ball-On-Ball Impact, Experimental Mechanics 29 (1989) 300-306.

6. R. Blickensderfer, J. H. Tylczak, and G. Laird II. Spalling of High-Chromium White Cast Iron Balls Subjected to Repetitive Impact, in Wear of Materials 1989, ed. K. C. Ludema, ASME 1 (1989) 175-182.

7. N. H. Macmillan and G. Laird II. An Approximate Description of the Temporal Evolution of a Hertzian Impact, Mater. Sci. Engr. A108 (1989) L1-L3.

8. T. C. Kennedy and G. Laird II. The Effect of Fiber Properties on Fracture Strength in Continuous-Fiber Ceramic Composites, in Proc. ASME Computers in Engineering Intl. Conference, eds. D. R. Riley and T. J. Cokonis, 2 (1989) 291-296.

9. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of a Crack in a Ceramic Composite, in Proc. ASME Computers in Engineering Intl. Conference, eds. G. L. Kinzel and S. M. Rohde, 2 (1990) 233-241.

10. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. Crack Wake Toughening Mechanisms in a Whisker-Reinforced Ceramic, in Proc. 4th International ANSYS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA., 1 (1989) 13.24-13.40; and Intl. J. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 9 (1991) 113-124.

11. G. Laird II, R. E. Nielsen, and N. H. Macmillan. On the Nature of Eutectic Carbides in Cr-Ni White Cast Irons, Metall. Trans. A 22 (1991) 1709-20.

12. G. Laird II, R. R. Brown, and R. E. Nielsen. Factors Affecting the Solidification of Cr-Ni (-Si-Mn) White Cast Irons, Mat. Sci. Tech. 7 (1991) 631-42.

13. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. The Role of Interfacial Cohesion on the Micromechanics of Composites Containing Spherical Inclusions, J. Mater. Sci. Lett. 10 (1991) 772-773.

14. G. Laird II and J. C. Rawers. Finite Element Analysis of a Laser Processed Fracture Specimen, Intl. J. Fracture 53 (1992) 91-99.

15. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. Micromechanics of Compressive Fracture in Particulate Ceramics, in Ceram. Eng. Sci. Proc. 13(7-8) (1992) 107-120.

16. G. Laird II and J. S. Epstein. Fracture Mechanics and Finite Element Analysis, Mechanical Engineering 114(11) (1992) 69-73.

17. G. L. F. Powell and G. Laird II. Structure, Nucleation, Growth, and Morphology of Secondary Carbides in High Cr and Cr-Ni White Cast Irons, J. Mater. Sci. 27 (1992) 29-35.

18. G. Laird II. Microstructures of NiHard I, NiHard IV, and High-Cr White Cast Irons, AFS Trans. 99 (1991) 339-357. (Translated into German and published in Giesserei-Praxis 13/14 (1992) 204-220.)

19. G. Cox and G. Laird II. Recent Advances in Ni-Hard 4, Intl. Foundry Trade J. 166(3448) (1992) 155-158.

20. G. Laird II, J. C. Rawers, and A. Adams. Fractal Analysis of Carbide Morphology in High-Cr White Cast Irons, Metal. Trans. 23A (1992) 2941-2946.

21. G. Laird II and G. L. F. Powell. Solidification and Solid-State Transformation Mechanisms in Si Alloyed High Chromium White Cast Irons, Metall. Trans. 24A (1993) 981-988.

22. V. Randle and G. Laird II. A Microtexture Study of Eutectic Carbides in a White Cast Iron Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction, J. Mater. Sci. 28 (1993) 4245-4249.

23. Timothy C. Kennedy and George Laird II. Three-dimensional Micromechanical Analysis of Cracks in a Ceramic Composite, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 13 (1993) 237-248.

24. G. Laird II. Some Comments on White Cast Iron Microstructures and Wear Properties, AFS Trans. 101 (1993) 497-504.

25. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. Micromechanics of Imperfect Interfaces in Heterogeneous Materials, Composites, 25 (1994) 593-603.

26. G. Laird II, J.E. Epstein, and T.C. Kennedy. Micromechanics of a Model Heterogeneous Material System under Compressive Loading, accepted: Exp. Mech. (1994).

27. G. Laird II and T.C. Kennedy. Micromechanics of Composite Materials under Compressive Loading, Engr. Fracture Mechanics, 51, (1995) 417-430.

28. R.M. Anderson, G. Laird II. J.A. Hawk Effect of Specimen Thickness on the Impact Resistance of Alumina, J. Mater. Sci., 30, (1995) 2571-2576.

29. R.D. Wilson, G. Laird II, R.R. Vogt and R.A. Bauer. Modeling the Capacitor Discharge Welding Process for Tube and Plate Geometries, in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Modeling and Control of Joining Processes American Welding Society, Orlando, Fl, Dec. (1993).

30. G.Laird II and T.C. Kennedy. Poisson's Ratio and the Interfacial Behavior of Composite Materials, accepted: Composites (1995).

31. K.K. Schrems, G. Laird II, and N.W. Duttlinger, Development of an Instrumented Impact Test for Wire, Wire Journal Intl., 28 (1995) 68-75. (Selected for the Allan B. Dove Medal Award by the Wire Assoc. Intl.)

32. G. Laird II, Repetitive and Single-Blow Impact Testing of Wear-Resistant Alloys, J. of Testing and Evaluation, 23, (1995), 333-340.

33. G. Laird II, R.F. Schleiden, Phil Belding, R.A. Dowell, and R.P. O'Donnell, Round-Robin Study on the Behavior of Equotip (LD) Hardness Measurements on White Cast Irons of Varying Hardnesses, AFS Transactions, 103, pp. 171-182 (1995).

34. G. Laird II, Ö.N. Dogan, and J. R. Bailey, Impact Testing of Wear-Resistant Cast Alloys, AFS Transactions, 103, pp. 165-169, (1995).

35. Ö.N. Dogan, G. Laird II, and J.A. Hawk, Abrasion Resistance of the Columnar-Zone in High-Cr White Cast Irons, Wear, 181-183, (1995) 342-349.

36. G. Laird II and J.A. Hawk, Ceramic as Replacement Parts in Traditional Manufacturing Processes, submitted to Bulletin of the Am. Cer. Soc. (1994).

37. G. Laird II and K.K. Schrems, Mechanical Modeling and Analysis of the Impact Fracture of Wire, Experimental Mechanics, 37, pp. 258-263 (1997).

38. G. Laird II and Ö.N. Dogan, Solidification Structure versus Hardness and Impact Toughness in High Chromium White Cast Irons, Int. J. Cast Metals Res., 9, pp. 83-102 (1996).

39. Ö.N. Dogan, J. A. Hawk, and G. Laird II, Solidification Structure and Abrasion Resistance of High Chromium White Irons, Metall. Trans., 28A, pp. 1315-28 (1997).

40. J.D. Gates, J.A. Hawk, J.H. Tylczak, G.J. Gore, and G. Laird II, Microstructural Factors Controlling Spalling in the Ball-on-Ball Repeated Impact Test, Wear 2001.

41. G. Laird II and K. Schrems, Mechanical Properties of Thin Walled Structures Cast in Ductile Iron, Engineered Casting Solutions, 2001.

42. J.S. Kiddy, C.S. Baldwin, T.J. Salter, G. Laird II, D. Bonnett, Submarine Design and Certification Using Finite Element Analysis and Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors, Ocean Engineering, 2005.

BOOK

1. G. Laird, R. Gundlach, and K. Röhrig, Abrasion-Resistant Cast Iron Handbook, American Foundry Society, December 2000.

NON-REFEREED REPORTS

1. G. Laird II, Metallurgical Investigation of Wear Resistant Tool Steel Alloys for Steel Mill Rolls, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Report, pp. 25, July (1994).

2. G. Laird II and K.K. Schrems, Impact Toughness of Vanadium Alloyed Wear/Corrosion Resistant Irons, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Report, pp. 17, July (1995).

3. G. Laird II and Fritz Friedersdorf, Microstructural and Corrosion Analysis of Exotically Alloyed Wear-Resistant Irons, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Report, pp. 12, July (1995).

4. G. Laird II, Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) Analysis for Bi-Material Mill Rolls, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Report, pp. 8, September 5, (1995).

PRESENTATIONS

1. G. Laird II. NiHard 4 Revisited, 1988 American Foundrymen's Society (AFS) Casting Congress, 25-29 April 1988, Hartford, CT.

2. G. Laird II. An Investigation of Ball-on-Ball Impact, ASME International Conference on Computers in Engineering, 1-4 August 1988, San Francisco, CA.

3. G. Laird II and W. K. Collins. Improved Microstructures for Impact Resistance, International Conference on Wear of Materials, 9-13 April 1989, Denver, CO. (poster)

4. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. Crack Wake Toughening in a Whisker-Reinforced Ceramic, 4th International ANSYS Conference, 1-5 May 1989, Pittsburgh, PA.

5. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of a Crack in a Ceramic Composite, ASME International Conference on Computers in Engineering, 31 July - 3 August 1989, Boston, MA.

6. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. Micromechanics of Compressive Fracture in Particulate Reinforced Ceramics, 16th Annual Conference on Composites and Advanced Ceramics, 7-10 January 1992, Cocoa Beach, FL.

7. G. Laird II. Some Comments on White Cast Iron Microstructures and Wear Properties, presented at AFS 97th Casting Congress, 24-27 April 1993, Chicago, IL.

8. G. Laird II and W. K. Collins. Microstructures for Improved Impact Resistance, presented at Pacific Northwest Minerals and Materials Conference, 3-4 May 1993, Portland, OR. (poster)

9. J. A. Hawk and G. Laird II. Advanced Ceramics for Impact and Abrasion, presented at Pacific Northwest Minerals and Materials Conference, 3-4 May 1993, Portland, OR.

10. G. Laird II, J. A. Hawk, and J. S. Epstein. Micromechanics of Wear-Engineered Materials, presented at Pacific Northwest Minerals and Materials Conference, 3-4 May 1993, Portland, OR. (poster)

11. G. Laird II. Comments on Microstructures and Wear Properties of White Cast Irons, presented at Pacific Northwest Minerals and Materials Conference, 3-4 May 1993, Portland, OR.

12. T. A. Adler, J. A. Hawk, and G. Laird II. Impact Fracture and Abrasive Wear at the U.S. Bureau of Mines, presented at Pacific Northwest Minerals and Materials Conference, 3-4 May 1993, Portland, OR.

13. G. Laird II and T. C. Kennedy. Micromechanics of Imperfect Interfaces in Heterogeneous Materials, presented at the International Conference on Interfacial Phenomena, 13-15 September 1993, Cambridge, UK.

14. G. Laird II. Developments and Usage of Wear Materials, ACEM-13 -- Bridging the Sciences, 6-11 February 1994, Queensland, Australia. (Invited Keynote Address).

15. G. Laird II, R.F. Schleiden, Phil Belding, R.A. Dowell, and R.P. O'Donnell, Round-Robin Study on the Behavior of Equotip (LD) Hardness Measurements on White Cast Irons of Varying Hardnesses, presented at AFS 99th Casting Congress, 23-26 April 1995, Kansas City, Mo.

SIGNIFICANT REVIEWS OF REFEREED MATERIALS

1. Book Review of Engineering Materials Technology, Structure, Processing, Properties & Selection, by Jacobs and Kilduff for ASTM J. Testing Evaluation, 23, (1995) 397-398.