12/2017 Adam Thompson, Zach Harris, and Prof. Burns' paper submission to the 12th International Fatigue Congress in Poltiers, France entitled "Characterization of the effects of high altitude environments on dislocation structure evolution during fatigue loading of 7075-T651," is accepted for inclusion in the conference as a presentation. Bonne chance (good luck) on the talk!!
12/2017 Noelle Co and Prof. Burns' paper submission to the 12th International Fatigue Congress in Poltiers, France entitled "Alloy Microstructure and Corrosion Morphology Effects on Fatigue Crack Initiation of Galvanically Coupled AA7050-T7451," is accepted for inclusion in the conference as a presentation. Bonne chance (good luck) on the talk!!
11/2017 Matt McMahon and Prof. Burns' paper submission to the 2018 SteelyHydrogen Conference in Ghent, Belgium entitled "Mitigation of Hydrogen-Induced Intergranular Cracking in Al-Mg Alloys by Electrochemical Potential Control," is accepted for inclusion in the conference as a presentation. Veel gheluk (good luck) on the talk!!
11/2017 Zach Harris and Prof. Burns' paper submission to the 2018 SteelyHydrogen Conference in Ghent, Belgium entitled "The Effect of Heat Treatment Variation on Hydrogen Environment-Assisted Cracking Susceptibility in a Precipitation-Hardened Ni-Cu Superalloy," is accepted for inclusion in the conference as a presentation. Veel gheluk (good luck) on the talk!!
10/2017 Noelle Co is invited to participate as a speaker in the Mechanical Characteristics and Application Properties of Metals and Non-metals for Technology: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Donato Firrao at TMS 2018! Her talk will be entitled "Corrosion Micro-scale features and Alloy Microstructure Effects on Fatigue Initiation of AA7050-T7451." Congrats on the invited talk!!
09/2017 Zach Harris and Prof. Burns' paper entitled "The effect of heat-to-heat variations in metallurgy and hydrogen-metal interactions on the hydrogen embrittlement of Monel K-500," is accepted for publication in Materials Science and Engineering A.
09/2017 Matt McMahon passes his qualifying exam! Congrats Matt!
08/2017 Noelle Co's paper entitled "Effect of Macro-feature of Galvanically Induced Corrosion Damage on Fatigue Initiation of AA 7050-T7451" is accepted for publication in the International Journal of Fatigue.
08/2017 Michael Ritzo joined the Burns Research Group as an undergraduate research assistant! Welcome to the team!
08/2017 Keiko Amino joined the Burns Research Group as a visiting scholar from Mitsubishi! Welcome to the team!
08/2017 Patrick Steiner presents a talk at NACE DoD Corrosion Conference titled “Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking of 5xxx-Series Al-Alloys Under Atmospheric Exposure Conditions.”
08/2017 Zach Harris presents a talk at NACE DoD Corrosion Conference titled “The effect of grain boundary sulfur on hydrogen environment-assisted cracking on Monel K-500.”
08/2017 Noelle Co presents a talk at NACE DOD Corrosion Conference titled “Effect of corrosion micro-scale features and alloy microstructure on the fatigue initiation and crack growth of AA7050-T7451.”
07/2017 Luke Brown joined the Burns Research Group as a Ph.D Student! Welcome to the team!
06/2017 Prof. Burns' paper selected is “featured open access paper” for June 2017 issue of Corrosion. Congrats Prof. Burns!
06/2017 Zach Harris presents a talk entitled "The Effect of Heat Treatment Variation on Hydrogen Environment-Assisted Cracking in Monel K-500”, at the 14th International Conference on Fracture in Rhodes, Greece
06/2017 Noelle Co presents a talk entitled "Microstructural Origins of Fatigue Crack Initiation and Growth Behavior in AA 7050-T7451 with Galvanically Induced Corrosion”, at the 14th International Conference on Fracture in Rhodes, Greece.
06/2017 Allison Popernack successfully defends her M.S. degree! Congratulations Allison!
05/2017 Zach Harris receives the Volkswagen Group of North America Fellowship from the University of Virginia. Congrats Zach!
05/2017 Zach Harris receives the Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf Outstanding Graduate Student Award given by the UVA Department of Materials Science. Congrats Zach!
05/2017 Noelle Co receives the Fred D. Rosi Outstanding Citizen Award given by UVA Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Congrats Noelle!
05/2017 Prof. Burns presents a talk at the 15th international ASTM/ESI Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics titled “Characterization of the effects of high altitude environments on dislocation structure evolution during fatigue loading of 7075-T651.”
04/2017 Matthew McMahon and Raewyn Haines won the Double Hoo research grant for their work on beta phase precipitation. Congrats Matt and Raewyn!
04/2017 Noelle Co got elected as the Executive Chairperson of the MSE Graduate Student Board for SY 2017-2018.
03/2017 Raewyn Haines wins a grant from Arconic/Alcoa. Congrats Raewyn!
03/2017 Zach Harris presents a talk at TMS 2017 in San Diego California entitled "The Effect of Microstructural Variation on Hydrogen Environment-Assisted Cracking in Monel K-500."
03/2017 Patrick Steiner presents a talk at TMS 2017 in San Diego California entitled "Environmentally Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking of 5xxx Al Alloys in Atmospheric Environments."
03/2017 Noelle Co presents a talk at TMS 2017 in San Diego California entitled "Fatigue Crack Initiation and Fatigue Crack Behavior of AA7050-T7451 with Different Corrosion Morphologies."
03/2017 Noelle Co presents a poster at TMS 2017 entitled "Fatigue Crack Initiation and Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Pre-Corroded AA7050-T7451" and she receives first place poster award. Nice job Noelle!
03/2017 Zach Harris presents a poster at TMS 2017 in San Diego California entitled "The Effect of Heat Treatment on Hydrogen Environment-Assisted Cracking in Monel K-500."
03/2017 Noelle Co receives honorable mention for her podium presentation at the UVA Engineering Research Symposium.