Jay Anderson
Materials Scientist
Jay Anderson is a highly experienced Materials Scientist specializing in Non-metallic Materials at Element St. Paul.
Experience
Jay's expertise consists of the analysis of physical properties of all non-metallic materials including plastics, thin films, rubber, foam, organic and inorganic coatings, adhesives and sealants, ceramics, fabrics, engineered wood, and composites.
Jay is a licensed Materials Scientist specializing in material testing, validation and failure analysis for fractography, metallography, physical property testing, electron microscopy, and chemical analysis methods.
Career Highlights
His project experience includes the following:
- Tensile, compression, tear, and flexural testing of all materials
- Hardness testing of all materials
- Abrasion resistance testing
- Coefficient of friction testing
- Linear expansion testing
- Flammability testing
- Impact testing
- Vapor transmission testing
- Physical properties of foams and engineered wood products
- Environmental simulation
- Adhesion and shear testing
- Color and gloss measurement and analysis
- Failure analysis
- Corrosion analysis
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
- Metallography & fractography
- Product testing
