Structural Materials Division and Functional Materials Division Award Ceremony & Lecture
Date: Monday, March 15, 2021
Time: Noon EDT
Featured Lecturer
Speaker: Rajiv Mishra, University of North Texas
Lecture Title: "Pushing Structural Performance of Materials by Combining Alloy Design with Disruptive Manufacturing Technologies"
About the Presentation
The TMS Structural Materials Division is home to professionals who work on advanced materials for structural applications. Ashby’s framework for materials selection neatly catalogues design approaches under elastic-limiting, strength-limiting, fatigue-limiting, toughness-limiting and creep limiting. Over the years, I had opportunities to work on microstructural tailoring of advanced alloys to maximize strength-ductility combination, to enable exceptional creep resistance, to enhance fatigue endurance limit, and to achieve exceptional high strain rate superplasticity. These studies have included severe plastic deformation to produce nanocrystalline and ultrafine grained alloys. Selective examples will be used to highlight microstructural approaches to influence strength-ductility (including specific strength of ~450 MPa m3/mg), creep resistance and fatigue resistance. The best performance is possible by combining alloy design with disruptive materials processing technologies. This synergistic approach is further enhanced by incorporating multiple deformation mechanisms, such as transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) and twinning induced plasticity (TWIP), through alloy design. Controlling the microstructure and stacking fault energy in high entropy alloys enables progression of TRIP and TWIP mechanisms to delay the onset of failure processes and retard crack growth, pushing the fatigue limit.
About the Speaker
Rajiv S. Mishra (Ph.D. in Metallurgy from University of Sheffield) is a university distinguished research professor at the University of North Texas (UNT). He serves as the director of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute (AMMPI) at UNT. He is also the director of the National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Friction Stir Processing. He is a past-chair of the Structural Materials Division of TMS and served on the TMS Board of Directors (2013 to 2016). He has authored/co-authored >375 papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings and is principal inventor of four U.S. patents. His current publication-based h-index is 63 and his papers have been cited more than 21,000 times. He has co-authored two books: Friction Stir Welding and Processing, and Metallurgy and Design of Alloys with Hierarchical Microstructures. He has co-edited fifteen TMS conference proceedings. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Processing Technology and serves on the editorial boards of Materials Science and Engineering-A, Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, and Materials Research Letters. He is the founding editor of a short book series on Friction Stir Welding and Processing published by Elsevier and has co-authored seven short books in this series.
Awards Ceremony
Award recipients from the TMS Structural Materials Division (SMD) and the TMS Functional Materials Division (FMD) will be recognized at this event. View the awards program for a full listing of TMS award recipients, including those who will be honored for SMD and FMD awards.
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Extraction & Processing Division and Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Award Ceremony & Lecture
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Time: Noon EDT
Featured Lecturer
Speaker: Richard Russell, NASA
Lecture Title: "Qualification and Certification Strategies for Additive Manufactured Parts for Manned Spaceflight"
About the Presentation
The implementation of additive manufacturing techniques to produce critical spaceflight systems is well underway. These technologies will be a key contributor to developing both launch vehicles and spacecraft that will play a crucial role in delivering the first woman and the next man to the surface of the moon by 2024. To assist in the assurance of flight readiness, NASA has created comprehensive certification-based standards for mature technologies for both metallic and non-metallic materials. The presentation will outline the principles of these certification and qualification strategies which are heavily rooted in foundational controls. These foundation controls include process qualification, statistical process control, the development of materials property and design values and the development of a qualified part process.
About the Speaker
Richard Russell currently holds the position as the NASA Technical Fellow for Materials, a position he has held since 2016. Russell has a B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a M.S. degree from the University of Florida in Materials and Science and Engineering.
He began his career in 1986 at the Naval Aviation Depot in Pensacola, Florida. In 1989 he joined NASA’s Kennedy Space Center supporting the Shuttle Engineering Project Office serving as a Materials and Processes (M&P) Engineering expert. In 1996, Russell left NASA and worked in aircraft manufacturing and design at The Aerostructures Corporation in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bell Helicopter in Ft. Worth, Texas. In 2001, he rejoined the Shuttle Program working for the United Space Alliance at Kennedy Space Center.
In 2004, Russell rejoined NASA serving as the Aging Aircraft Principal Engineer for the Orbiter Project Support Office. In 2009, he became a member of the Materials Science Division at the Kennedy Space Center supporting the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and assisting in the development of requirements for the Commercial Crew Program. In 2012, Russell was named the Chief of the Materials and Processes Engineering Branch. In 2014, he joined the Commercial Crew Program as both the spacecraft and launch vehicle Systems Manager for Specialty Engineering (Materials and Processes and Fracture Control).
Awards Ceremony
Award recipients from the TMS Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) and the TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) will be recognized at this event. View the awards program for a full listing of TMS award recipients, including those who will be honored for EPD and MPMD awards.
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Light Metals Division Award Ceremony & Lecture
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Time: Noon EDT
Featured Lecturer
Speaker: Mark Easton, RMIT University
Lecture Title: "Near Net Manufacturing of Light Metal Alloys"
About the Presentation
Near net shape manufacturing of a component shape and appropriate properties for its function can be achieved in one processing step. Benefits can include processing and material efficiency resulting in low cost and a potentially lower environmental impact. Light Metals have been commonly used in near net shape manufacture. Aluminium castings are almost ubiquitous in automotive applications as gravity, permanent mould, and high pressure die castings. Magnesium alloys can enable further design freedom, with thinner walled and more complex castings enabling part consolidation and great functionality. More recently, additive manufacturing has taken net shape processing to another level with highly complex structures, with graded properties enabling applications in biomedical, aerospace, and other industries that were unthought of just a few years ago. Whilst there appears to be a big difference between an automotive wheel casting and an orthopedic lattice structure implanted in a hip joint, the manufacturing challenges are similar: control of microstructure, accommodating solidification shrinkage and defect formation, optimization of properties, and design innovation through increasing part complexity. This talk will highlight the development of near net shape manufacturing of light metal alloys.
About the Speaker
Mark Easton is currently the Associate Dean (Manufacturing, Materials and Mechatronics) at RMIT University, where he has been since 2014. Prior to this, he was at Monash University, where he primarily worked with the CAST Co-operative Research Centre and was its final CEO. Easton’s Ph.D. is from the University of Queensland, and he has also had stints at Comalco (now Rio Tinto Aluminum) Research Centre and at the Leichtmetallkompetenz Zentrum, Rashofen (LKR) in Austria. He is the winner of a number of awards including the Henry Marion Howe Award and the GKSS Magnesium Award. Whilst at the CAST CRC, he received five commercialization awards for his role in the commercialization of technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience in solidification processing of light alloys, initially focusing on casting, but he has more recently joined the additive manufacturing bandwagon.
Awards Ceremony
Award recipients from the TMS Light Metals Division (LMD) will be recognized at this event. View the awards program for a full listing of TMS award recipients, including those who will be honored for LMD awards.
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TMS-AIME Awards Ceremony
Please visit the TMS-AIME Awards Ceremony web page for information on distribution of Society-level awards.