Mr. Jewett has over 30 years of experience in mechanical testing and test instrumentation. Mr. Jewett performs mechanical testing and failure analysis of mechanical components, including bicycles, recreational equipment, and medical devices. He determines mechanical properties of materials from small sample punch tests. He has expertise in fatigue and fracture mechanics testing as well as stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue testing and analysis. He has designed test systems and products for crack growth monitoring by electrical potential measurements. Mr. Jewett has particular experience with test system design, operation, and development of software for computerized data acquisition and reduction. He addresses issues related to instrumentation for test data acquisition, residual stress measurements, strain gauging and determination of mechanical properties of materials.
Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Jewett was employed as a Senior Engineer, Nuclear Energy Business Operation, for General Electric Company.