Group News

The Burns Group headed to Poitiers, France to participate in the 12th International Fatigue Congress.
Adam Thompson presented a talk titled, "Characterization of the effects of high altitude environments on dislocation structure evolution during fatigue loading of AA7075-T651".
Prof. Burns gave a plenary lecture titled, "Next generation insights into environmental cracking via coupling high-fidelity experimentation, material characterization, and multi-scale modeling approaches".

We're saying "see you soon" to some of our superstars this spring.
Noelle Easter Co, Andrew Jamieson, and Michael Ritzo are graduating!
Dr. Noelle Easter Co has accepted an offer to work with Blade Energy Group as a Metallurgical Engineer II.
Andrew Jamieson has accepted a position at NAVAIR as a Materials Engineer in the Metals and Ceramics Group at NAS Patuxent River.
Michael Ritzo is continuing his education with Professor Agnew.
Congratulations! We will miss you all in the lab!

Zach Harris received the Best Presentation Award at the 2018 SteelyHydrogen Conference in Ghent, Belgium for his talk titled, "The Effect of Heat Treatment Variation on Hydrogen Environment-Assisted Cracking Susceptibility in a Precipitation-Hardened Ni-Based Superalloy".
Matt McMahon presented a talk titled, "Mitigation of H-induced intergranular cracking in Al-Mg alloys by electrochemical potential control" and got second place for his presentation.
Congratulations to both for their amazing performances!

Surprising no one, Matt McMahon has successfully defended his proposal titled "Evaluation of Metal-Rich Primers for the Mitigation of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking in Highly Sensitized Al-Mg Alloy AA5456-H116". Great work Matt!

Raewyn Haines and Matt McMahon are awarded a renewal of the Double Hoo Fellowship from the University of Virginia for their work on Beta phase distribution in Al-Mg alloys of varying composition and temper. Congrats Matt and Raewyn!
Raewyn Haines is awarded the Belinda and Chip Blankenship Scholarship from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Congrats Raewyn!

Raewyn Haines and Matt McMahon attended CORROSION 2018 in Phoenix, AZ.
Raewyn Haines presented a poster and talk titled, "Intergranular Beta Phase Distribution in Sensitized Al-Mg Alloys of Varying Composition and Temper".
Matt McMahon presented a talk titled, "Metal-Rich Primer Coatings for Environmental Fracture Mitigation in Al-Mg Alloys" and a poster titled, "Al/Mg/Zn Metal-Rich Primers for the Mitigation of Degradation Phenomena in Al-Mg Alloys".

Noelle cannot stop winning.
Noelle Co was awarded the International Studies Office Award for International Graduate Student Academic Excellence
Her paper entitled "Data-Science Analysis of the Macro-scale Features Governing the Corrosion to Crack Transition in AA7050-T7451" was accepted for publication in JOM.
She successfully defended her dissertation in March.
She presented an invited talk at TMS 2018 in Phoenix, AZ entitled, "Corrosion Micro-scale Features and Alloy Microstructure Effects on Fatigue Initiation of AA7050-T7451."

Andrew Jamieson has successfully defended his Master's thesis titled "Quantifying the Effects of Type II Hot Corrosion on the High Temperature Fatigue Cracking Behavior of a Ni-based Superalloy". Congrats Andrew!

Prof. Burns' paper entitled "The effect of pit size and density on the fatigue behavior of a precorroded martensitic stainless steel" is accepted for publication in Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures (FFEMS).

Patrick Steiner passed his Ph.D qualifying exam.