Metallographic Examination of Heavily Eroded Structural Steel from World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2 and 7
George F. Vander Voort, Ronald R. Biederman, Rick Sisson and Erin Sullivan (Buehler Ltd, Lake Bluff)

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Rick passed his qualifier. He is now an official Ph.D. candidate.

Scott published a paper on superelastic NiTi foams in TMS Letters:

Marcus passed his qualifier and has now too joined the ranks of Ph.D. candidate.

Heeman and David published a paper on the mechanical properties of Ni foams in Materials Science and Engineering A:

Marsha passed her qualifier and is now an official Ph.D. candidate.

Keith had a paper published from some old research at Virginia Tech.

1. K. E. Knipling, et al. “Effect of Dissolved Tungsten on the Deformation
   of 70Ni-30Fe Alloys” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A , 35 (2004), 2821--2828.

David published a paper on processing of Ti foams in Advanced Engineering Materials:

1. D.C. Dunand. “Processing of Titanium Foams” Advanced Engineering Materials, 6, 6 (2004) 369-376.
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David published a paper on finite element modeling:

1. S. Yilmaz and D.C. Dunand. “Finite-Element Analysis of Thermal Expansion and Thermal Mismatch Stresses in a Cu-60 vol.% ZrW₂O₈ Composite” Composites Science and Technology, 64, 12 (2004) 1895-1898.

Marcus received a Graduate Student Award to attend the 54th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany. This award is sponsored by the US DOE and NSF. He, along with approximately 50 other students, will travel to Lindau to participate in discussions with the Nobel Laureates as well as fellow young researchers from around the world.

Alan had a paper accepted for publication on his bulk metallic glass foams:

1. A.H. Brothers, D.C. Dunand. “Syntactic Bulk Metallic Glass Foam”, Applied Physics Letters, 84 (7) 1108-1110 (2004).
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Former group member, Naomi Davis, had her second paper on titanium foams accepted for publication in Acta Materialia:

1. N.G.D. Murray, D.C. Dunand, “Effect of Thermal History on the Superplastic Expansion of Argon-Filled Pores in Titanium: Modeling of Kinetics”, Acta Materialia, accepted for publication

The group present several papers at the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society conference, Materials Science & Technology 2003, in downtown Chicago.