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Fundamentals of Friction Stir Welding and Processing Short Course
June 9-11, 2013 • University of North Texas • Denton, Texas
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Rajiv Mishra is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas.
He is also the UNT Site Director of the NSF I/UCRC for Friction Stir Processing and a Fellow of ASM International. His highest degree is Ph.D. in Metallurgy
from the University of Sheffield, UK (1988).
He has authored or co-authored 250 papers in peer- reviewed journals and proceedings and is principal inventor
of four U.S. patents. His current publication based h-index is 39 and his papers have been cited more than 5600
times. He has co-edited a book on friction stir welding and processing, and edited or co-edited thirteen TMS conference proceedings. He is the in-coming
chair of the SMD and will serve on the TMS Board of Directors from March 2013 as the TMS Structural Materials Director. He serves on the editorial board
of Materials Science and Engineering A, Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, and Advances in Materials Science and Engineering.
Tony Reynolds is a chaired, full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina.
Reynolds obtained his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Virginia in 1990. Since 1998 his research group has been working in the areas of
friction stir welding and processing (FSW/P). Since 2004, Reynolds has been the site director at USC for a multi-University NSF I/UCRC, The Center for
Friction Stir Processing. Reynolds’ group has published more than 70 ISI articles on FSW/P which articles have garnered over 2000 citations.
Emphases of the group’s research include FSW process development for aluminum alloys, steels, and titanium as well as characterization of weld performance
and process simulation. The group is also currently investigating other friction based, solid state, materials processing techniques. In addition to his
academic research, Reynolds has also served as a consultant to SKB (The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company) for their FSW process development
for sealing of copper nuclear waste containers.
Carl D. Sorensen received his B.S. degree from Brigham Young University in Physics and his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in materials science. Dr. Sorensen has been actively working in FSW technologies since 2000. He has been a consultant in
the design of FSW equipment and has developed control and data management software for FSW machines.
He has been active in modeling of FSW processes,
data analysis for FSW systems, and fundamental understanding of FSW process. He has authored more than 40 papers and presentation on FSW processes,
and is the author of a chapter in the ASM Firction Stir Welding and Processing handbook. He is an inventor on 5 patents related to Friction Stir Processing.
Yuri Hovanski is currently a Research Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He earned a B.S. Degree in Mechanical
Engineering at Brigham Young University, and then completed his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University.
He is a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, and actively participates in AWS and TMS serving on the forming and shaping
as well as joining committees. He has participated in friction stir related research for more than a decade investigating weld formability,
abnormal grain growth, and the influence of post-weld microstructure and texture on mechanical properties. More recently, he has focused on the
development of low-cost solutions for friction stir welding, introducing cost efficient solutions for thermal telemetry, new tool materials and
production techniques for friction stir spot welding tooling, and utilizing thermo-hydrogen processing to aid friction stir welding of titanium alloys.
He continues this effort today furthering the capability of friction stir spot welding in a variety of advanced high strength steel alloys, and
recently introducing scribed tooling that enables lap welding of highly dissimilar materials. He actively reviews friction stir related literature
for several publications and has documented his work in more than 25 publications.
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