Dr. Tanguay has over 10 years of experience in ballistics, high-speed reactive systems and shock wave physics. He conducts investigations and analysis related to fires, explosions and reactive systems. His work is both experimental and analytical.
Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Tanguay worked as a Defence Scientist at Defence Research & Development Canada. His fields of research included interior ballistics of solid propellant guns, hypervelocity launch and impact as well as energetic materials and detonations. Dr. Tanguay developed a hypervelocity launcher using explosives to implode gas tubes capable of launching 15 g projectiles at 7.5 km/s.
Prior to his work for the Canadian National Defence, Dr. Tanguay was a research and teaching assistant at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Dr. Tanguay’s fields of research included shock wave physics and high-speed reacting systems. His doctoral research was focused on the combustion of reactive metal particles in detonation products. At McGill he also researched shock initiation of high-explosives, metal combustion in high-speed flow, detonation and shock wave propagation in ducts channels, gaseous detonations and pulsed detonation engines.
Dr. Tanguay also has teaching experience. He was a teacher of flight mechanics at École des métiers de l'aérospatiale de Montréal – an aerospace trade school in Montreal, Canada. He was also a teaching assistant and lectured compressible fluids at McGill University.