Biographies of Haynes International, Inc.,
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Dr. Lee M. Pike
Lee M. Pike received a Ph.D. degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 under the guidance of Prof. Y. Austin Chang. His area of research involved point defects, mechanical properties, and ternary alloying effects in B2-ordered intermetallic compounds. Prior to his graduate studies, he received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1991 from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. After finishing his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Pike accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Dr. C. T. Liu in the Metals and Ceramics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where his research primarily involved the development of intermetallic alloys, as well as the extension of his doctoral studies.
In November 1998, Dr. Pike joined the staff at Haynes International. He is currently the Director of Research and Technology overseeing both the Product R&D and Technical Service groups. He is also actively involved in several R&D projects involving both high-temperature and corrosion-resistant alloys. He is the inventor of HAYNES® 282® alloy, a new gamma-prime strengthened superalloy and HASTELLOY® C-22HS® alloy, a corrosion-resistant alloy with twice the strength of comparative Ni-Cr-Mo alloys. His work in the area of ordering behavior led to the development of a two-step heat treatment for HAYNES® 242® alloy. Dr. Pike holds five U.S. patents and is the author or co-author of more than 40 technical publications. He is a member of ASM International and TMS.
e-mail Dr. Lee Pike: lpike@haynesintl.com
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Mr. Michael Katcher
Mr. Katcher is the Manager of Codes & Standards at Haynes International within the Research and Technology where he directs Nickel and Cobalt alloy testing and performs data analysis. He is an active member on Section II and VIII of the Nonferrous and Materials subcommittees, respectively, of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and also, the Nickel and Cobalt Alloy committees of the ASTM. He has over 30 years metallurgical engineering experience and was graduated in 1963 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering. He has published over 17 papers on metallurgy and fracture mechanics and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of California.
e-mail Mr. Katcher: mkatcher@haynesintl.com
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Dr. S. Krishna Srivastava
Dr. Srivastava received his B.E. degree from the University of Roorkee, India. Subsequently, he worked there as an Instructor for about two and a half years. He received his M.S. Degree from the University of Missouri -Rolla. After this, he worked in a non-ferrous foundry for about three years. He received his Ph.D. in materials engineering from the University of California, Davis. He worked on the high temperature deformation of a superalloy for his dissertation.
In 1980, he joined the R & D staff of Haynes International and is currently a Member of Technical Staff. Over the years, he has worked in areas related to physical metallurgy, thermomechanical processing, high-temperature corrosion, etc. He has carried out numerous failure analyses and has consulted extensively on material selection. He has introduced modifications in the manufacturing process, and provided technical guidance for the very successful HR-120 stators project for land based gas turbines.
Dr. Srivastava is a member of TMS/AIME and ASM International. He is currently a Key Reader for the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. His other activities have included member of the High Temperature Alloys Committee, member of the ASM Heat Resistant Materials Committee, etc. He has authored/coauthored about forty papers in a variety of areas. He has contributed chapters in the ASM Handbook on formability and forging of heat resistant materials. He was a coeditor of the book, Advanced Technologies for Superalloy Affordability, TMS 2000.
e-mail Dr. S. Krishna Srivastava: ksrivastava@haynesintl.com
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Mr. David A. Metzler
Mr. Metzler received his BSMME and MSMME degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1975 and 1977, respectively. His educational background included research on the role of interphase interfacial structures on the evolution of precipitate morphology in the copper-titanium alloy system. Prior to joining Haynes International in 2006, Mr. Metzler spent 29 years involved in industrial metallurgy and manufacturing engineering in such diverse areas as seawater-resistant stainless steel production scale-up, design and implementation of nickel-base superalloy glass forming tooling, process design for production of high performance EDM electrode wire, design of erosion-resistant insulation systems for winding wires and implementation of in-line inspection systems for high-speed wire production lines.
In 2006, he joined the Research & Technology department of Haynes International and is currently Sr. Mechanical Metallurgist. Current activities include test method development for strain-age cracking in Ni-base superalloys and computer modeling of alloy manufacturing and downstream alloy forming proceses.
Mr. Metzler is a member of the Wire Association International and ASM International. He has authored/coauthored several papers in a variety of areas and authored the ultrafine wire drawing chapter in the WAI Non-Ferrous Wire Handbook. Mr. Metzler is also a GE six-sigma green belt.
e-mail Mr. Metzler: dmetzler@haynesintl.com
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Mr. Mark A. Britton
Mr. Mark A. Britton earned a Welding Certificate from the Indiana Vocational Technical Institute in Kokomo, Indiana. In 1980, Mr. Britton joined Haynes International's Technology Department as a Welding Technician and later served as Weld Lab Supervisor. In 2008, he was promoted to the Research & Technology’s Welding Specialist position. He has over 30 years of welding experience involving all of the nickel, iron and cobalt base alloys manufactured by Haynes. Mr. Britton is skilled in Shielded Metal Arc (coated electrode), Gas Metal Arc (layer wound wire), Submerged Arc and the Gas Tungsten Arc welding process, both manual and with automatic cold wire feed. Mr. Britton has knowledge in filler metal selection, cutting, fabrication, forming, and heat treating and performs telephone consultation with fabricators as well as customer visits. He is knowledgeable in all welding operations used in the manufacture of wrought mill products. Mark is a member of the American Welding Society
e-mail Mr. Britton: mbritton@haynesintl.com
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Dr. Vinay Deodeshmukh
Vinay Deodeshmukh received a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Iowa State University in 2007 under the guidance of Prof. Brian Gleeson. His research work involved hot corrosion and oxidation behavior of Pt-modified Ni- and Co-based alloys and coatings. He received a M.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2002. He worked under Prof. Dhanesh Chandra on aqueous corrosion behavior of carbon steel for the Yucca Mountain repository. Prior to his graduate studies, he received a B.E. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Government College of Engineering Pune, India. After this, he was employed as a Production Engineer for a year in the Investment Casting division of a jewelry manufacturing company.
In 2007, Dr. Deodeshmukh joined the Research & Technology Department of Haynes International, Inc. He is currently involved in studying the high temperature corrosion behavior of various Ni- and Co-based alloys. Dr. Deodeshmukh has authored and coauthored nine technical publications in the area of high temperature corrosion and aqueous corrosion. He received Mars Fontana Award (3rd place) in 2005 and Marcel Pourbaix Award (3rd place) in 2006 for the best posters in Corrosion Engineering and Corrosion Science during the NACE meetings.
e-mail Dr. Deodeshmukh: vdeodeshmukh@haynesintl.com
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Dr. Michael Fahrmann
Michael Fahrmann holds a M.S. degree in Physics from the University of Technology in Dresden, Germany, and a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the Academy of Sciences of Berlin, Germany. His dissertation addressed the high-temperature deformation and fracture behavior of cermets.
In October of 2009, Michael joined the R&T Department of Haynes International as a Senior Staff Engineer – Physical Metallurgy. Prior employment included academia (Institute of Solid State Physics and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany, 1980-1992, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992-1996) as well as industry (Special Metals Corporation, Huntington, WV, 1997-2009). His areas of expertise are the physical, mechanical, and process metallurgy of high-temperature materials, particularly Ni-base superalloys.
He has authored or co-authored over thirty technical papers and holds three patents. He is a member of ASM International, TMS, a former Met. Trans. A Key Reader, and a former Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Other professional activities encompassed active participation in TMS’ High Temperature Alloys Committee and the editorial board of Superalloys 2008. He also holds a Six Sigma Black Belt.
e-mail Dr. Fahrmann : mfahrmann@haynesintl.com
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Dr. Jeremy L. Caron
Jeremy Caron received a Ph.D. degree in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2010, under the supervision of Prof. John Lippold. As a member of the Welding and Joining Metallurgy Group, his dissertation research was related to the weldability evaluation of Naval steels, focusing on a newly developed high-strength blast-resistant steel. He also spent time as a visiting researcher at the BAM Institute in Berlin, Germany, where he investigated the influence of continuous cooling transformation variations on numerical calculation of welding-induced residual stresses. Previously, he obtained B.A.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (2004) and M.A.Sc. Engineering Materials (2006) degrees from the University of Windsor in Canada. His master's thesis research involved testing of novel resistance spot welding electrodes in an automotive assembly plant.
In September 2010, Dr. Caron joined the Research & Technology Group of Haynes International, Inc. as Welding Engineer/Metallurgist. His project activities are concerned with joining of Haynes' alloys, including weldability testing and welding metallurgy studies. Jeremy is a member of TMS and AWS.
e-mail Dr. Caron : jcaron@haynesintl.com
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