Mr. Kapse has extensive knowledge of failure investigations on metallic components related to chemical/refinery plants and to general engineering. Experience ranges from cast iron, engineering steels, aluminium, copper alloys, stainless steels, and nickel base alloys to titanium. This includes all aspects of metallurgical investigations of offshore, marine, refinery and automotive components such as; turbine blades, compressors, gearboxes, motors, pumps, rotors, shafts, valves, pipe work, fasteners, boilers, pressure vessels, plain bearings, rolling bearings, gears, pistons, spark plugs, crankshafts, camshafts, engine valves and associated valve components.

Mr. Kapse is well experienced in the Microstructure Characterizer Software, which has been developed internally at TCR, for grain size measurement, volume fraction, nodularity assessment, case depth measurement. Mr. Kapse has deep rooted understanding in metallurgy including micro preparation, etching techniques, phase counting, and microstructure assessment etc.

Mr. Kapse has a Masters in Technology degree in Metallurgy from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India.