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    Paul Swanson, Ph.D.,  is a senior consultant with Swanson &Associates Consulting Corp . Prior to starting  SACC,  he had over 25 years of experience working in the mechanical testing area at John Deere with a focus on wear testing and analysis and also accelerated structural durability testing.


  Some of his accomplishments are:

  • Successfully completed numerous  lab based simulation tests on variety of agricultural equipment.
  • Managed a broad scope of projects: durability testing, engineering information management, thermo-elastic stress analysis, and tribology (wear, friction, and lubrication).
  • Used a  variety of servo-hydraulic control systems from MTS and Schenck-Pegasus Corporation to perform structural durability tests.
  • Developed expertise using data analysis tools from MTS, IST, and nCode.
  • Led group that developed the first multi-axial, full-vehicle simulation test rig within John Deere.
  • Assisted in the development of a field-test information management database system.  

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    Elizabeth Swanson does the administrative work for Swanson & Associates.

    URL  www.sac-corp.biz