"Engineering the Application of Materials"
 
Electric Park Research provides consulting services to analyze your use of materials in load bearing structures and to optimize that usage with regard to overall cost, manufacturability, durability and weight. Our specialty is in the area of load bearing composite sandwich structures for aerospace, automotive, power generation, biomedical and civil engineering applications. We have over 25 years experience with titanium and aluminium alloys, high strength and specialty steels in structural applications and environmental degradation and continue to expand our activities in fibre reinforced and foam filled materials, both metallic and polymeric.

Our in-house facilities focus on optical microscopy and materials application modeling using MathCAD, but we also have access to a wide variety of world class, state of the art, mechanical testing, electron microscopy and x-ray analytical facilities.

Our clients have included Rolls Royce Aero Engines plc, Alcan, Insituform Technologies Inc., Caterpillar Inc. PolyOrtho International, U.S. Olympic Luge Association. British Aerospace plc.

Please feel free to contact us with your material design and failure analysis needs.     electricpark@comcast.net

Composite Materials



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An on-line course concerning the mechanics and manufacturing of composite materials and structures.

Superplasticity & Superplastic Materials

An on-line course/resource covering just about everything related to superplasticity and superplastic materials including a fully searchable superplastic literature/properties database.

Materials Characterization

  • Try our simulation of x-ray generation in an electron microscope.
  • Browse our free MathCAD based materials related design tools.
  • Scientific Publications

    Dr. John Pilling, Technical Director of Electric Park Research has a Ph.D. in Metallurgy from the University of Manchester (U.K.) and is the author of two scientific textbooks on superplasticity and phase equilibria as well as numerous peer reviewed articles in the scientific literature. Dr. Pilling has presented his work at major international conferences and is the recipient of the Institute of Materials (London) Pfeil Medal.

    John Pilling, Adjunct Professor
    Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
    Morwenna, Athol Park, Port Erin, Isle of Man IM9 6ES - (+44) 1624 832382
    drjohn@mtu.edu