NEWS & EVENTS

Zach Brunson wins the JOM Best Paper Award from the Structural Materials Division of TMS

This article “An Expanded Martensite Variant Selection Theory Accounting for Transformation Rotations and Applies Stress Fields: Predictions of Variant Clusters in Titanium.” This article documents research that Zach performed at the Air Force Research Laboratory summer 2019, under the guidance of his Air Force research mentors Drs. Adam Pilchak and Eric Payton, as well as his Ph.D. advisor Prof. Stebner. Full Story.

Prof. Stebner named Faculty Fellow of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

Prof. Stebner was honored for his outstanding research accomplishments and leadership. This award provides Stebner with $20,000/yr discretionary funding from 2021 – 2023 and $12,000/yr in 2024-2025 to support the growth of his research programs.

Congratulations, Dr. Peter Caltagirone!

Peter Caltagirone successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines entitled “Improvements of fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite bonds: thick joint failure model, shape memory alloy reinforcements, and in-situ characterizations.”

Congratulations, Dr. Nathan Johnson!

Nathan Johnson successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines entitled “In situ high energy X-ray diffraction characterization of phase transformations and mechanical behaviors in rapidly solidified titanium and stainless steel alloys.

Congratulations, Charlie Fuller, Master of Science!

John “Charlie” Fuller successfully defended his Master’s thesis in Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines entitled “The development of laser powder bed fusion and heat treatment parmaeters for additively manufactured Ni51.5Ti48.5 shape memory alloys.”

Stebner joins Georgia Tech faculty

Associate Professor Aaron Stebner joined the faculty of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Read more in this Q&A

Congratulations, Dr. Thomas Gallmeyer!

Tom Gallmeyer successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis in Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines entitled “The effects of heat treatment on structure-property relationships of additively manufactured Inconel 718.”

Congratulations, David Grimmer, Master of Science!

David Grimmer successfully defended his Master’s thesis in Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines entitled “A general distance function for quantifying and comparing material anisotropies demonstrated through calculations of elastic and magnetic anisotropies of crystalline materials.”

BEAM TEAM PRESENTS, WINS AWARDS AT TMS 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Sean Mills (pictured at left, center), recent Beam Team PhD graduate, for winning first place in the “Fatigue in Materials” poster session at TMS 2020 for his poster “Deformation Mechanisms of Nickel-Titanium-Hafnium Alloys Subjected to Rolling Contact Fatigue Experiments.”

CONGRATULATIONS, DR. JINESH DAHAL!

Beam Team member Jinesh Dahal successfully defended his thesis in January 2020: “In situ diffraction investigations of mechanisms that lead to path dependent mechanical behaviours of nickel-titanium shape memory alloys“

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS CREATES EFFICIENT, ECO-FRIENDLY COOLING TECHNOLOGY

The Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT) at Colorado School of Mines was part of an international research team that developed a new elastocaloric cooling material that is highly efficient, eco-friendly and easily scaled-up for commercial use.

CONGRATULATIONS, DR. SEAN MILLS!

Congratulations to the Beam Team’s newest PhD, Sean Mills! Sean successfully defended his thesis on Oct. 28, 2019, to complete his PhD in the Materials Science interdisciplinary program.

TOM GALLMEYER WINS GVSETS 2019 BEST PAPER AWARD

PhD student Thomas Gallmeyer won the Best Paper Award at GVSETS 2019. The 11th annual GVSETS & APBI (Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium and Advanced Planning Briefings for Industry) was hosted by the Michigan chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association Aug. 13–15 in Novi, Michigan.

STEBNER IS VISITING RESEARCHER AT ICYS IN JAPAN

Dr. Aaron Stebner spent the summer as a visiting researcher at the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan. Read the interview about Stebner’s research and his views on the future of materials.

MINES PARTNERS WITH ADAM SAVAGE TO BUILD 3D-PRINTED IRON MAN SUIT

Mines’ Advanced Manufacturing Program Director Craig Brice and several of his students worked with Adam Savage on an episode of “Savage Builds,” a brand-new series premiering on the Discovery Channel on June 14. The series is all about extreme and innovative engineering challenges.

BEAM TEAM STUDENTS WIN GRADS AWARDS

Congratulations to Beam Team PhD students Sean Mills and Nathan Johnson for winning awards at CSM GRADS 2019!

Mills won best poster presentation and Johnson won best oral presentation.

BEAM TEAM PRESENTS AT TMS 2019

Beam Team students and faculty presented their latest research findings at TMS 2019 in San Antonio, Texas, the week of March 11.

3D EXPERIMENTS SHED NEW LIGHT ON SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS

Shape memory alloys are well known for their remarkable properties —superelasticity, shape memory

Ashley Bucsek PhD ’18 was the lead author on the three papers.

DYLAN COUSINS DEFENDS THESIS ON ADVANCED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES

Congratulations to Beam Team PhD candidate Dylan Cousins for successfully defending his thesis, “Advanced Thermoplastic Composites for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing.”

NEXTGEN FELLOWSHIP IN MATERIALS INFORMATICS A SUCCESS

Materials informatics is the next frontier of materials science, taking computational and machine learning tools and applying them to characterizing and discovering materials.

BUCSEK RESEARCH CHOSEN FOR COVER OF ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION A

The September cover article for Acta Crystallographica Section A is a study published by researchers from Colorado School of Mines and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.

DYLAN COUSINS WINS OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL PAPER AWARD

Beam Team PhD candidate Dylan Cousins has won “Best in Track: Advances in Materials” in the Outstanding Technical Paper awards for the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX 2018) for his paper “Thermoplastic Composites for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing.”

DAVID GRIMMER PUTS RESEARCH INTO ACTION AT NASA GLENN

Beam Team PhD candidate David Grimmer participated in a summer internship at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, in the High Temperature and Smart Alloys branch of the Materials and Structures division.

NATHAN JOHNSON AUGMENTS PHD RESEARCH AT LOS ALAMOS NEUTRON SCIENCE CENTER

This past summer, Beam Team PhD candidate Nathan Johnson worked as a graduate research assistant in the Lujan Center at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE). He worked with the Materials Science in Radiation and Dynamics Extremes group of the Materials Science and Technology division.

PROF. AARON STEBNER RECEIVES PROMOTION AND TENURE

Congratulations, Dr. Stebner!

BEAM TEAM POSTDOC YASUHITO SUZUKI TAKES PROFESSORSHIP IN JAPAN

Congratulations to Dr. Yasuhito Suzuki on his new position as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at Osaka Prefecture University! Yasuhito completed his postdoctoral appointment at Mines in March.

NATHAN JOHNSON AWARDED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FELLOWSHIP BY LANL

Nathan Johnson was awarded a fellowship by Los Alamos National Laboratory to study and model rapidly solidifying alloys. The fellowship was awarded for Nathan’s research with the Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPTSM).