ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Sam Kantimathi

Sam Kantimathi is president of FATIGUE CONCEPTS, a consulting firm based in El Dorado Hills, California. El Dorado Hills is located between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe in the Sierra-Nevada foothills near Sacramento. FATIGUE CONCEPTS specializes in metal fatigue, fracture mechanics, damage tolerance analysis and customized training programs at your location.

FATIGUE CONCEPTS is a world leader in providing Aircraft Structural Integrity training to fit your needs and your budgets. FATIGUE CONCEPTS is about to celebrate its thirteenth anniversary. Recently, Mr. Kantimathi conducted two one-week courses for Princeton University and also one-week courses at numerous organizations including Boeing Company, Northwest Airlines, FAA, Singapore Airlines and US Navy, and dozens of companies in five continents.

Prior to founding FATIGUE CONCEPTS, Mr. Kantimathi held senior engineering positions at AeroStructures, Inc. and Beech Aircraft Corporation, where he completed fatigue and fracture mechanics substantiation of Beechject 400, Commuter Model 1900, and the King Air. At AeroStructures his responsibilities included fatigue and fracture mechanic evaluations of helicopter and fixed wing aircraft structures. He developed and installed a fatigue crack initiation tracking program for the F-4S fleet in the US Navy. It was the first sequence-accountable scheme employed by the Naval Air Development Center for its quarterly "Structural Appraisal of Fatigue Effects" (SAFE) reports.

For four recent years, he was the sole instructor in his five-day workshop at George Washington University entitled "Minimizing the Danger of Fatigue in Metals and Composites." He also prepares and executes a phenomenally successful course for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) called "Fracture Mechanics - Aerospace Applications" and also one on Advanced Fracture Mechanics. AIAA added his course entitled "Aerospace Structural Accidents" to its course offerings in 1995. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in design methods, fatigue, wear, fracture and materials. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and serves on committee E08, on fatigue and fracture of American Society for Testing and Materials, (ASTM). He belongs to ASM International. He is also affiliated with American Society for Training and Development, American Defense Preparedness Association, and American Helicopter Society. Sam Kantimathi earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MS degree in mechanical engineering from Wichita State University.

Sam Kantimathi is the author of the upcoming AIAA book entitled "Fracture Mechanics - Aerospace Applications." He was a contributor to the 1992 ASM International Handbook of Case Histories in Failure Analysis. He has published papers in SAE and ASME journals and lectured at a meeting of ASM International. Mr. Kantimathi participated in the publication of "Case Studies for Fatigue Education" following the ASTM symposium of the same name. He has also presented an invited paper to the New Challenges in Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering '96 Conference in Singapore.

Lockheed Martin, MOOG and LORD Corporation are among the companies that have utilized Sam Kantimathi consulting.

Sam Kantimathi has recently received extensive training on aircraft structural repair analysis and corrosion prevention from a few institutions including University of California, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and US Air Force Academy.

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