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Ali Smith is a Materials and Corrosion expert at RINA Consulting - Centro Sviluppo Materiali. They possess expertise in failure analysis, materials selection, corrosion, stress corrosion, process metallurgy and 21 more skills. They is proficient in Italian.

Listed skills include Failure Analysis, Materials Selection, Corrosion, Stress Corrosion, and 22 others.

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  Materials And Corrosion Expert

  Rina Consulting - Centro Sviluppo Materiali

  May 2006 - Present - Rome Area, Italy

  Experience and skills:Metallurgy• Failure analysis of engineering components e.g. oil well and refinery equipment.• Knowledge of heat treatment and thermo mechanical processing principles of steels (e.g. metallurgy of hot rolling, cold rolling, forging, annealing, quenching and tempering.• Familiar with physical metallurgy of carbon steels, stainless steels, nickel alloys, aluminium alloys.• Product development experience i.e. assisting steel companies for optimising manufacturing route for different steel applications and grades e.g. automotive sheets, pipeline for sour service, structural grades.• Experience with physical metallurgy of fusion welding and examination of weld microstructures.• Experience with mechanical tests and standards i.e. Tensile tests, Charpy, Fracture mechanics, Fatigue, Hardness. Experience with Gleeble thermo mechanical simulator.• Experience with microstructure analysis techniques and relevant standards such as SEM, TEM, EBSD, Optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, inclusion, grain size analysis.• Participation in several European Commission funded projects on development of novel advanced steel grades for automotive industry .Corrosion• Knowledge of corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement, and stress corrosion cracking behaviour for steels, stainless steels, and nickel alloys.• Representing company interests as a member of the European Pipeline Research Group Corrosion Committee.• Materials selection/operating window identification of non-ferrous alloys and steels for different environments, and significant experience with ISO15156 for materials selection in sour environments.• Experience with corrosion/stress corrosion/hydrogen embrittlement testing methods and their interpretation, considering steels and corrosion resistant alloys + welds, e.g. general corrosion, pitting/crevice, NACE TM0284, TM0177, TM0198, TM0316.• Familiar with corrosion protection measures i.e. zinc galvanising, nickel plating, cathodic protection.