Robert Clark, Ph.D.

Robert Clark is a Principal and founding member of GT ENGINEERING. For over 25 years he has had a broad career in research, industry, and consulting. His specialty is the investigation and determination of cause for degradation and failure in materials. This has included extensive work involving metals, plastics and polymers, glasses and ceramics. He has led international research involving materials degradation in power plants. For the last 15 years he has had a nationwide consulting practice for insurance firms, manufacturers and industry, legal offices and government agencies dealing with failure analysis of materials. Dr. Clark has testified in cases across the United States as a Court qualified expert in materials science, mechanical engineering, metallurgy, corrosion and accident reconstruction.

Typical failure analysis projects have involved failures in engineered plastic or polymeric products such as molded parts, tubing, woven products and cordage (PVC, CPVC, PP, PE, PEX, ABS, EPDM, nylon etc.); failures in adhesives; failures in ferrous and non-ferrous metals, for example storage tanks, power grid structures, steam generators, piping systems, marine components, turbines, petrochemical plants; failures in glass and ceramics, e.g. corrosion of window lights, fracture origin in containers.

Dr. Clark holds a bachelors of science degree in Metallurgy, a masters of science degree in Materials Science and Engineering, and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering with a Metallurgy specialization and a minor in Mechanical Engineering, all from the University of California at Berkeley. He previously managed the Corrosion Research and Engineering Section at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories and served as a consultant to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Contact Dr. Clark at: rclark@gt-engineering.com