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Metals

News and Updates

Blog Posts

From the Steel City to the Lab: Strengthening the U.S. Steel Industry Through Science

Laser Focused: How Light Reflections Could Revolutionize 3D Printing of Metals

Curiosity to Career: Encouraging Students to Pursue STEM Education

Projects and Programs

Advanced Materials Design: Electronic and Functional Applications

Ongoing
Accelerating Materials Discovery using Machine Learning and AI Using machine learning and AI techniques along with high-throughput DFT calculations materials with specific properties are identified to accelerate the the discovery process for a variety of applications. Some of the specific materials

µMAG: Micromagnetic Modeling Activity Group

Ongoing
µMAG advances the state of the art in micromagnetic modeling by establishing and maintaining communications among interested researchers, by defining a collection of standard micromagnetic problems, and by leading the development of a public reference implementation of micromagnetic software.

Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture

Ongoing
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS FACILITIES and CAPABILITIES PUBLICATIONS - see individual staff webpages on right POST-DOCTORAL OPPORTUNITIES - jump to section below Metal additive manufacturing (AM) is not used in fatigue and fracture critical applications despite industrial need. The goal of this project is

Publications

Three-dimensional nucleation and growth of deformation twins in magnesium

Author(s)
Sangwon Lee, Michael Pilipchuk, Can Yildirim, Duncan Greeley, Qianying Shi, Tracy Berman, Adam Creuziger, Evan Rust, Carsten Detlefs, Veera Sundararaghavan, John Allison, Ashley Bucsek
At two-thirds the weight of aluminum, magnesium alloys have the potential to significantly reduce the fuel consumption of transportation vehicles. These

Software

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

Tools and Instruments

Ultrasonic Atomizer

To support alloy development for additive manufacturing (AM), a small lab-scale ultrasonic atomization system has been established for metallic powder

Awards

Mark Stoudt Named ASM Fellow

For outstanding contributions to the scientific understanding of the structure-property relationships of additively manufactured alloys and
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