Experts & Consultants

Some of our experts and consultants in this region:

Robert Shandro

Robert SHANDRO

Principal Consultant

LIM Kie Yong

LIM Kie Yong

Operations Director

LIAM Kok Chye

LIAM Kok Chye

Principal Consultant

Carla CANTURRI PhD

Carla CANTURRI, PhD

R&D Consultant

Christophe DELCHER

Christophe DELCHER

Principal Consultant

Damien GUILLON

Damien GUILLON

Principal Consultant

Bruno DEPALE

Bruno DEPALE

Principal Consultant

Benoit VERQUIN

Benoit VERQUIN

Principal Consultant

Yan-Ming CHEN

Yan-Ming CHEN

Principal Consultant

Tayeb AIOUAZ

Tayeb AIOUAZ

Principal Consultant

Xavier HERMITE

Xavier HERMITE

Principal Consultant

Stephane SOYER

Stephane SOYER

Principal Consultant

Johann CATTY

Johann CATTY

Principal Consultant

Dr M BENNEBACH

Dr M. BENNEBACH

Principal Consultant

Christophe GROSJEAN

Christophe GROSJEAN

Principal Consultant

Fan ZHANG

Fan ZHANG

Principal Consultant

Jeremy VIALE PhD

Jeremy VIALE, PhD

Principal Consultant

Laurent JUBIN

Laurent JUBIN

Principal Consultant

Nadege DUCOMMUN

Nadege DUCOMMUN

Principal Consultant

Olivier CHEMINAT

Olivier CHEMINAT

Principal Consultant

Hubert LEJEUNE

Hubert LEJEUNE

Principal Consultant

Robert SHANDRO

Principal Consultant

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science – Specialist in Failure Investigation, Forensic Engineering and Condition Assessment with more than 30 years of consulting experience in Energy, Aerospace, Shipbuilding, Transportation and Public Works.

Member of the French delegation for ISO TC60 (Technical Committee), Expert in load capacity calculation of gears, terminologies, notation, strength and quality of materials for gears

Areas of Expertise

  • Failure analysis of a wide range of mechanical equipment/components and structural facilities
  • Expert witness for litigation and insurance claims
  • Expert consultant and technical support on patent litigations
  • Forensic engineering investigation of industrial failures and accidents
  • Design, verification and failure analysis of mechanical power transmission components
  • Condition and remnant life assessment of mechanical power transmission components
  • Standardization works (ISO TC60)

LIM Kie Yong

Operations Director

Specializing in the field of forensic engineering, failure investigation and condition assessment with more than 25 years of consulting experience in the oil and gas, petrochemicals, marine, manufacturing, utilities, building, pressure vessels, lifting equipment and aerospace industries.

Areas of Expertise

  • Failure analysis in mechanical equipment/components and structural facilities
  • Forensic engineering investigation of industrial failures, fires, explosions and accidents
  • Condition and remnant life assessment of pressure vessels, lifting equipment and structural facilities
  • Non-destructive inspection and evaluation
  • Expert witness for litigation and insurance cases

LIAM Kok Chye

Principal Consultant

Mechanical Engineer (PE) – Specializing in failure analysis and condition assessment work through integration of mechanical engineering and materials/corrosion expertise.

Expert Engineer (IES Engineering Expert Panel – Forensic Engineering and Materials/Corrosion)

Specialist Professional Engineer in Lifting Equipment and Cranes (PEB) Who’s Who in Engineering (Singapore), SrMIES, MNACE and MAPIEx

Areas of Expertise

  • Failure analysis of mechanical equipment/components and structural facilities
  • Condition and remnant life assessment of high temperature equipment/plants, lifting equipment
  • Forensic engineering investigation of industrial failures and accidents
  • Failure and damage mechanisms in oil and gas and petrochemical industries
  • Materials and corrosion consultancy
  • Expert witness for litigation and insurance cases

Carla CANTURRI

R&D Consultant

Carla is a R&D Consultant with Cetim Matcor in the field of mechanics and materials with a focus on polymer composites and polymer materials. Carla has over twelve years of Research and Development experience in the Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Energy and Transportation industries.

Areas of Expertise

  • Failure analysis of polymeric and polymeric composite components
  • Condition assessment of polymers and polymer composites
  • Non-destructive evaluation of composites
  • Mechanical characterisation of composite materials

Christophe DELCHER

Principal Consultant

Senior Technical Expert in Bolted Joint in Cetim.

Fields of interest:

  • Definition of characterization and qualification Tests
  • Design and development of innovative assembly-solutions
  • Expertise and failure analysis of bolted assemblies
  • Development and improvement of standard-documents

Areas of Expertise

  • Definition of characterization and qualification Tests
  • Design and development of innovative assembly-solutions
  • Expertise and failure analysis of bolted assemblies
  • Development and improvement of standard-documents
  • Training activities

Damien GUILLON

Principal Consultant

Since 2009: CETIM “polymer & composite engineering” team
2018-2021: R&D Manager
2015-2018: Composite design technical leader
2013-2015: Composite material laboratory manager
2011-2013: Automotive composite market lead engineer
2009-2011: Composite testing engineer
2004-2008: Airbus central research and technology
Master thesis: Cyclic hydric ageing mechanisms of composite material

Areas of Expertise

  • Design of composite materials
  • Knowledge of behavior laws and sizing criteria
  • Filament winding and Tape deposition process
  • Assembly and finishing process.
  • Composite process
  • Composite preforming process
  • Stamping-overmolding process
  • Experimental expertise on composite material
  • Standardized mechanical characterization tests
  • Impact and energy absorption tests, fatigue tests, and test/model correlation
  • Management of collaborative research projects
  • Setting up of multi-funded projects
  • Animation of partnership

Bruno DEPALE

Principal Consultant

Bruno is Structural Analysis Expert of CETIM (Technical Institute of the French mechanical industry). He works mainly in the fields of machine design, steel construction and has expertise in a wide range of machines, but with a focus on cranes. Since 2004, he has been French delegate in the working groups of CEN/TC147 and ISOTC96 dealing with Crane design.

His fields of interest cover structural analysis based on FEA (Abaqus), proofs and strength of structures or mechanical components.

Areas of Expertise

  • Expertise of failure modes
  • Design support and optimization of machines
  • Standardization
  • Training (cranes design, RLA, fatigue)
  • Management of professional working groups

Benoit VERQUIN

Principal Consultant

Additive Manufacturing experience : 18 years
Additive Manufacturing processes : L-PBF, MBJ, WAAM
Metal AM machines : EOS, SLM Solutions, TRUMPF, 3D Systems , Digital Metal, Add-Up, Desktop Metal
Software : Magics, 3-Matic, Simufact

Areas of Expertise

  • Pilot of multipatenarial R&D projects : AM sharing platforms
  • Materials : titanium alloys, Co-Cr, Stainless-Steel
  • Consulting in Strategic diagnostic, Design for AM and Industrialization
  • Technical and economic feasibility studies

Yan-Ming CHEN

Principal Consultant

Senior Technical Expert in Tribology in Cetim.

Fields of interest:

  • Tribological design improvement of mechanical system
  • Expertise and wear failure analysis
  • Development of new tribological tests
  • Training activities

Areas of Expertise

  • Surface roughness optimization
  • Contact stress analysis
  • Lubrication optimization
  • Wear mechanisms, abrasion, adhesion, fretting, surface fatigue analysis
  • Material and surface treatments solutions
  • Design of specific test for engines, compressors, pumps, bearing and other machine parts

Tayeb AIOUAZ

Principal Consultant

Expert in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and numerical simulations of particulate flow (DEM).

Fields of interest:

  • Design and conception support, engineering review & failure analysis
  • Development of modeling approaches adapted to industrial problems
  • Analysis and numerical characterization
  • Standardization, Training, consulting and knowledge transfer

Areas of Expertise

  • Hydraulic equipment: pipe, bend, valve, pump, mixing tank, nozzle
  • Calculation: Flow and pressure field, pressure drop, sizing, scaling, etc
  • Free surface flows: pumping stations, sumps, channels, pipes, weirs, anti-vortex systems
  • Multi-phase flow: Bi-fluid, Charged-fluid, Sedimentation, erosion, CFD-DEM
  • R&D : Fluid-structure interaction, Numerical methods, Meshing

Xavier HERMITE

Principal Consultant

14 years experimented engineer in data management and safety analysis (RAMS) for mechanical industry.

Fields of interest:

  • Workgroup animation
  • Durability test specification
  • Probabilities & Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Areas of Expertise

  • Reliability Analysis (provisional, experimental, operational)
  • Sampling / Resampling strategy, process monitoring
  • Applied statistics (fitting, comparison, classification, modeling, etc.)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Programing / Software development, embedded software
  • Database assessment (data quality, data structure, feasibility of analysis, etc.)
  • Support to technological options

Stephane SOYER

Principal Consultant

In charge of studies and services within Cetim’s NVH, NDT & IIoT pole in Senlis (France) with over 20 years of experience in the vibratory and acoustic field. R&D studies and technical expertise on the analysis of the dynamic behaviour of installations and multi-physics measurement.

Assistance and advice to Cetim’s industrial customers on the topic of measurement engineering and expertise. Technical referent in vibration failure analysis within Cetim and for various external commissions since 2015.

Areas of Expertise

  • Vibration diagnostics
  • Failure analysis of complex machines and recommendations for solutions
  • Design and installation of vibration monitoring
  • Analysis of the dynamic behaviour of structures (EMA, OMA, ODS)
  • Recalibration of measurements and calculations

Johann CATTY

Principal Consultant

Project Senior Engineer in NDT techniques specialized in Acoustic Emission controls.

Fields of interest:

  • Expert Engineer in Non Destructive Testing techniques
  • Advanced knowledge on all Non-Destructive Techniques
  • Advanced knowledge of Pressure Equipment.
  • Knowledge on API 579 (Fitness For Service) and RBI

Areas of Expertise

  • Commercial and technical management of NDT projects
  • Interventions on customers sites
  • Extensive experience in conducting on-site projects and team management
  • Research Project in the field of Ceramic Materials, Acoustic Emission, …
  • Expertises of Pressure vessels (Hydrocracking Reactor; Gas Storage tanks; Nuclear reactors, …)
  • Expertise of Reactors (VALE – New-Caledonia) using different NDT Techniques like Ultrasonic TOFD and Phased Array, Magnetic particle testing, Acoustic Emission

Dr M. BENNEBACH

Principal Consultant

Mohamed is a structural analysis engineer, expert in fatigue of components and structures, with 28+ years’ experience in this field. He works mainly in the fields of components and structures design, life and residual life evaluation, fatigue testing.

He is involved in private and R&D projects, training and standardization working groups (CEN/TC 147, UNM05) where he develops specific fatigue calculation methodologies.

Areas of Expertise

  • Fatigue testing and material characterization
  • Fatigue design and calculation of structures
  • Standardization: participation in national and international working groups
  • Training: creation of training material and animation of several courses

Christophe GROSJEAN

Principal Consultant

Christophe Grosjean is Metallurgy Expert at Cetim (Technical Institute of the French mechanical industry). He works mainly in the fields of metallurgy, characterization, heat treatment… He has an expertise in a wide range of metals, treatments, coatings and processes such as additive manufacturing.

He is in charge of failure analysis on metallic materials and proposal ofimprovement solutions. He also develops and carries out training sessions on his areas of expertise.

Areas of Expertise

  • Expertise of failure modes
  • Heat treatment
  • Characterization of metals
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Standardization

Fan ZHANG

Principal Consultant

NDT expert of Cetim, Fan ZHANG is engineer from INSA of Lyon and PhD in materials science.

She works on the development and the qualification of acoustic emission to detect leaks in the primary circuit of nuclear power plants, but also in non-destructive characterization of materials, and detection of stress corrosion masked by geometric discontinuities on nuclear piping using innovative ultrasonic techniques.

Areas of Expertise

  • Materials Physics
  • Non-Destructive Testing : acoustic emission, ultrasonic techniques, electromagnetic methods
  • Signal and data processing

Jeremy VIALE

Principal Consultant

Jeremy VIALE is a Polymer and Composite Processing Expert at CETIM. He works for 15 years for Polymer Industry mainly on plastics forming and
composite part manufacturing for Aeronautics, Automotive, Energy and Piping Systems.

He is focused on polymer material behaviour during forming processes, relationship between manufacturing parameters and part performances. His fields of interest cover major processes as injection, extrusion, rotational moulding for plastics and reactive processes as pultrusion.

Areas of Expertise

  • Polymer rheology
  • Reactive processes
  • Plastics forming processes
  • Thermoset part Manufacturing
  • Training (polymers, composites, forming processes)

Laurent JUBIN

Principal Consultant

Laurent JUBIN is International Welding Engineer at Cetim (Technical Institute of the French Mechanical Industry) specialised on three aspects of welding (metallurgy, process, fitness for service).

Areas of Expertise

  • Design, manufacturing and inspection of assemblies obtained by welding, brazing and welding
  • Failure analysis: identification of root cause and support in re-design
  • Welding metallurgy: selection of filler materials, welding conditions, and support in implementation
  • Drafting of technical welding instructions.

Nadege DUCOMMUN

Principal Consultant

Nadege DUCOMMUN is corrosion and corrosion protection expert at Cetim (Technical Institute of the French mechanical industry).

She works mainly in the fields of metallic materials, and has expertise in working conditions analysis, knowledges of the mechanism, morphological characterization, materials and corrosion protection choice and failure analysis. She has an electrochemical formation, and she is specifically certified in cathodic protection in the marine environment.

Areas of Expertise

  • Expertise of failure modes
  • Residual life assessment
  • Corrosive environment analysis
  • Materials and corrosion protection choice
  • Cathodic protection dimensioning
  • Training (corrosion, protection choice, cathodic protection)

Olivier CHEMINAT

Principal Consultant

Olivier CHEMINAT is an automation and robotic welding expert at CETIM (Technical Institute of the French mechanical industry). He works mainly in
the field of welding industrialization.

After 15 years in the production of components with welding robots, he assists, since 10 years, entreprises to invests and put into operation robotic welding installations.

Areas of Expertise

  • Automation and robotic welding specialist (In technical, economic and organization)
  • Technical assistance in production and process optimization
  • Robotic expert for different investments assistance programs for SMEs
  • Design and manufacturing method for component for robotization.
  • Design improvement solutions proposals
  • Technical assistance for the research and development on the customer projects.

Hubert LEJEUNE

Principal Consultant

Hubert LEJEUNE is a Sealing Technologies expert of Cetim. His fields of interest cover sealing system testing, modeling and design as global leakage management.

He works mainly in the fields bolted flange joints and valve packing. Since 2005 he has been the French delegate in the CEN/TC74 WG8: Gasket and WG10: Calculation,cand is the convenor on a dedicated working group on bolted flange joint & gasket testing for the French nuclear code RCC-M®.

Areas of Expertise

  • Global knowledge of Sealing Technologies
  • Sealing phenomena modeling
  • Sealing products testing in representative environment
  • Bolted joints design and modeling (flange connections, valve packing,…)
  • Training on gasketed bolted joints (available technologies & calculation)
  • Multi-partner, Industrial/Academic projects development and management
  • Management of professional working groups (including standardization groups)