Dr. Ramesh Kar’s consulting experience spans areas of failure analysis, materials selection, product liability, and development. He has been a principal investigator in over 3000 failure investigations including turbine/heat exchanger failures, glass failures, metal, wood, and plastic chair failures, composite poles, ski boots, chains, seatbelts, ladder failures; ladder cases, automotive & airplane component failures, ABS piping/construction defect cases. He has provided testimony in over 500 civil and criminal investigations (plaintiff and defense) in the states of California and Nevada.
Areas of Expertise
Publications
- Failure Analysis of a Polymer centrifugal impeller, Elsevier Science Direct Case Studies in Failure Analysis, Volume 4 pp 1-7, October 2015
- Methodology Development For Fractography of Honeycomb Structures and Joints, SBIR Contract DOT-C-89-0023, Final Report, July 1992
- Composite Failure Analysis Handbook, DOT/FAA/CT-91/23, Federal Aviation Administration Tech. Ctr., January 1990
- Composite Failure Analysis Handbook, USAF Contract F33615-87-C-5212, Fifth Interim Report, Northrop Corporation Technical Report NOR 89-80, November 1989
- An Investigation of Current and New Fractographic Techniques for Evaluation of Fiber/Resin Composites, ISTFA 1988 Conference Proceedings, ASM International,, January 1988
- Fractography of Fiber/Resin Composites, Proceedings of the Resin-Based Composites Symposium, ISTFA 87, ASM International, January 1987
- Fractographic Failure Analysis of Resin-Based Composites, WESTEC ’87, ASM International, January 1987
- Microstructural and Fractographic Characterization of Rapidly Solidified CW67 Aluminum Alloy, Earl R. Parker Symposium on StructureProperty Relationships, 1986 Annual AIME Meeting, January 1986
- Fractography of Resin-Based Composites, Proceedings of the ASTM Symposium, American Society for Testing and Materials, January 1985
- An Overview of The Fractographic Failure Analysis Capabilities at Northrop For Composite Materials, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Post-Failure Analysis of Resin-Based Composites, US Air Force Materials Laboratory-sponsored, January 1985
- TEM/STEM Characterization of Advanced Aluminum Alloys, 20th Annual Meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of America, January 1985
- Failure Analysis of Gr/Ep Composites, WESTEC ’85, ASM International, January 1985
See CV for additional publications.