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Ross Rentz (Fed)
Research Interests:
Charpy impact testing and verification; mechanical testing of high strength pipeline steels; instrumented testing; data analysis
Newell Moser, Jake Benzing, Orion Kafka, Jordan Weaver, Nicholas Derimow, Ross Rentz, Nik Hrabe
The additive manufacturing benchmarking challenge described in this work was aimed at the prediction of average stress–strain properties for tensile specimens
Jake T. Benzing, Nikolas W. Hrabe, Timothy P. Quinn, Ryan M. White, Ross A. Rentz, Magnus Ahlfors
Hot isostatic pressing (HIP) treatments are used to seal internal porosity because defects exist in as-built Ti-6Al-4V parts produced by electron beam melting
Timothy Weeks, David T. Read, Enrico Lucon, Jeffrey W. Sowards, Ross Rentz
This paper reports an extension of a previous study that compared methods of evaluating J by the crack mouth opening displacement and by surface strain