Group News

Sarah is working on studying SCC in nuclear waste containers made from stainless steels. She was awarded the Olsen graduate fellowship for her oustanding undergraduate and post-undergraduate research. We are so excited to work with you, Sarah!

Dr. Steiner has successfully defended his PhD research titled "Mechanistic Studies of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking in Al-Mg Alloys under Atmospheric Exposure Conditions". He's now moving onto his post-doc position in Ohio. Bye Patrick!

Patrick's proposal, titled "Mechanistic Studies of Intergranular Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking Under Atmospheric Exposure Conditions", investigates SCC cracking in 5xxx series aluminum in saline and chloride rich environments.

Adam Thompson and Zach Harris' paper entitled "Examination of focused ion beam-induced damage during platinum deposition in the near-surface region of an aerospace aluminum alloy" is accepted for publication in Micron.

Zach Harris has successfully defended his dissertation titled "Elucidating Microstructural Contributions to Hydrogen Embrittlement Susceptibility in Ni-base Alloys". Great work!

Erin Dubas, Kallia Smith, and Crestienne DeChaine have joined the Burns Group as undergraduate research assistants. Welcome to the team!

The Burns Group presented a lot at the International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials XII in Hyannis, MA
Zach Harris gave a talk titled, "Characterization of the effects of high altitude environments on dislocation structure evolution during fatigue loading of 7075-T651."
Andrew Jamieson presented a poster titled, "Quantifying the effects of type II hot corrosion on the high temperature fatigue cracking behavior of a Ni-based superalloy."

Carly Cocke has joined the research group as a graduate research assistant. Welcome!

Zach Harris presented a talk titled, "The Effect of Loading Rate on Hydrogen Environment-Assisted Cracking Susceptibility in Monel K-500" at the 2018 Department of Defense Technical Corrosion Conference Meeting in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Zach Harris' paper entitled "Elucidating the contribution of mobile hydrogen-deformation interactions on hydrogen-induced intergranular cracking in polycrystalline nickel" is accepted for publication in Acta Materialia.
Patrick Steiner's paper entitled "Mechanistic Studies of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking in Al-Mg Alloys under Atmospheric Exposure Conditions" is accepted for publication in CORROSION.