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Alec Saville (Fed)

Metallurgist (NRC Postdoc)

Alec Saville is an NRC postdoc in the Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Alec completed his B.S. (2018) and PhD (2022) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He also interned with the Air Force Research Laboratory working on high entropy alloy and HSLA steel development in 2017-2018.

His PhD work focused on controlling and understanding microstructural evolution in additively manufactured metals. This included solidification of metals during deposition, solid state transformations during thermal cycling and/or cooling, and using crystallographic orientations as fingerprints of how the dynamic conditions in additive manufacturing altered as-deposited metal.

Alec joined NIST in 2023 and is using additive manufacturing to boost the performance of cobalt-free maraging steels. He will also leverage his prior characterization and metallurgical experience to address other metallurgical challenges while expanding his mechanical testing expertise.

 

Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow: (2019-2022)

ASM Rocky Mountain Chapter Scholarship - 2018

Publications

Microstructure and mechanical properties of laser powder bed fusion Ti-6Al-4V after HIP treatments with varied temperatures and cooling rates

Author(s)
Nicholas Derimow, Jake Benzing, Howard Joress, Austin McDannald, Ping Lu, Frank DelRio, Newell Moser, Matthew Connolly, Alec Saville, Orion Kafka, Chad Beamer, Ryan Fishel, Chris Hadley, Nikolas Hrabe
This work investigated non-standard HIP cycles for PBF-L Ti-6Al-4V and characterized microstructure and tensile properties to compare between material that
Created November 21, 2023, Updated September 12, 2024