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 where he was a member of Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society). 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 multi-component 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 Manager of Product Research and Development and leads 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 30 technical publications. He is a member of ASM International and TMS/AIME.
e-mail Dr. Lee Pike: lpike@haynesintl.com
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Mr. Steven J. Matthews
| Steven J. Matthews graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1966. He was employed as a Nuclear Welding Engineer with the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, Groton, Connecticut. In 1968, He returned to RPI's Welding Research Laboratory and earned his Master's degree in Metallurgical Engineering under the direction of Prof. Warren Savage.
In 1970, Mr. Mattthews joined Haynes International's Technology Department in Kokomo, Indiana, where he has served in a number of capacities including Research Engineer, Welding Group Leader, Manager of Welding and Material Standards, R&D Administrator, Manufacturing Development Manager, Manager of Engineering Resources, and Manager of Process Research & Development. He is currently Manager of Engineering Technical Support.
Mr. Matthews has conducted research projects in the area of weldability testing and solidification cracking of nickel and cobalt-base alloys, physical metallurgy of weldments, weld filler metal development and weld overlay process development. He is co-inventor on six alloy patents. In a managerial capacity, he has been responsible for the conception and implementation of process development projects leading to improved quality and lower cost manufacturing of wrought specialty alloys. Technical activities were conducted in the area of arc melting, vacuum melting, argon-oxygen decarburization, refining, electroslag remelting, forging, hot and cold rolling, annealing, finishing, welding and fabrication.
Mr. Matthews has authored or co-authored thirteen publications pertaining to the physical metallurgy of welding, specifically in areas relating to weldability of nickel and cobalt- based specialty alloys. In 1996, Mr. Matthews was inducted as a Fellow of the American Welding Society. He received the society's James F. Lincoln Gold Metal Award in 1975; he is past member of the Welding Research and Development Committee and past Chairman of the AWS National Awards Committee. He was Chapter Chairman of the AWS Handbook Vol. 4, Chapter 13 "Metallurgical Aspects of Dissimilar Metal Welding" and was committee member for Chapter 6, "Nickel + Cobalt Alloys". Mr. Matthews was also active in the Welding Research Council serving as Chairman of the High Alloys Committee, Chairman of the Subcommittee On Hardfacing and Wear and Chairman of the Subcommittee On Basic Research. Mr. Matthews is a member of ASM International and was a chapter chairman and contributing author for the ASM Handbook, 10th Edition, Vol. 6 (Welding). |
e-mail Mr. Matthews: smatthews@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. Nacéra Sabrina Meck
Dr. Meck received her B.S. in Industrial Chemistry from the Boumerdes University, National Institute of Hydrocarbons and Chemistry, Algiers, Algeria, in 1983. She received an M.S. degree in Applied Chemistry in 1984 and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1988 from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France. Her Ph.D. research concerned the "Corrosion Behavior of Chromium, Titanium and Titanium Nitride Obtained by a Low Pressure Ammonia Plasma Toward Dry Gaseous Chlorine at High Temperatures."
For ten years, Dr. Meck was Assistant and Associate Professor in the Applied Chemistry Department, University of Boumerdes where she was taught courses in corrosion science and the protection of materials as well as electrochemistry for graduate and undergraduate students. She also supervised research theses, and organized and directed corrosion research for engineers and technical students within different companies in the field of corrosion science and engineering and materials protection. While at Boumerdes University, she performed fundamental research in the field electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for aqueous corrosion, and the quartz micro-balance and thermal balances for high temperature corrosion studies for the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, France.
In 2001, Dr. Meck joined the staff of R&D Department of Haynes International, Inc., as a Senior Corrosion Engineer. She was involved in a project on the "Susceptibility of Nickel and Cobalt Alloys to Localized Corrosion in Chloride, Bromide, Fluoride, and Iodide Solutions." Currently, she is doing research on the development of new corrosion resistant alloys for potential applications in the chemical process industries, as well as material testing and characteriztion for fuel cell enviornments.
Dr. Meck has directed more than twenty university research theses, and she has authored and co-authored a number of technical publications. Her professional activities have included Editor-in-Chief and Founding Member of the Algerian Committee for the Protection Against Corrosion (CALCOR). She is currently a member of NACE International, ASM International and the Electrochemical Society.
e-mail Dr. Sabrina Meck: nsmeck@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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Henry J. White, PhD, PE
Dr. Henry J. White joined Haynes International in 2007 as Welding Metallurgist/ Senior Staff Engineer.
He has a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Polytechnic University, M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (Welding Metallurgy) from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook.
After completing his BS, Dr. White worked as a Metallurgical Engineering for ABB Lummus Global where he developed/ reviewed welding procedure specification/ procedure qualification records and selected material of construction for Ethylene, Styrene, and Maleic Anhydride petrochemical plants. After completing his MS, Dr. White worked for Misonix Incorporated as a Materials Engineer where he developed welding procedures and selected materials for ultrasonic medical instrumentation. While in graduate school, Dr. White managed the heat treatment facilities for Skyo Industries Inc. a mill to market tool manufacturer. At Skyo Industries Inc., Dr. White designed new materials and heat treatment procedures to improve and maintain tool quality.
Most recently, Dr. White was a member of the faculty in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stony Brook University. He is a registered Professional Engineer.
e-mail Dr. White: hwhite@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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