Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/09/2017
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Green Pond Country Club
Registration – 5:30 – 6:30 P.M.
Dinner – 6:30 P.M.
Presentation – 7:30 P.M.
Cash bar available starting at 5:30 P.M along with cheese and cracker assortment.
Meal:
Minestrone soup
Tossed Garden Salad
Eye Round of Beef with Cabernet Sauce
OR Tarragon Mustard Chicken
OR Vegetable Rissotto
Country Mixed Vegetables
Whipped Potatoes
Ice cream
TOPIC: Frontline Research at the Army Research Laboratory: Nanomaterials
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is located on the Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) in Harford County, Maryland (approximately 35 miles north of Baltimore). The primary building for ARL is the Rodman Research building and houses roughly 300 employees. ARL’s primary emphases is materials-based research and is broken down into seven branches with focuses ranging from Polymers to Manufacturing. This talk will center on the research activities within the Lightweight and Specialty Metals Branch. Over the last decade, this branch has built the infrastructure to be one of the premier mechanical alloying laboratories in the US and around the world. This has yielded ground-breaking research in the field of nanocrystalline materials with developing the first creep resistance nanocrystalline alloys. Recently efforts have led to the discovery of an Aluminum-based alloy that can generate Hydrogen when placed in water or another water-based fluid. Other exciting research endeavors will be discussed as well as the full capabilities of this branch within this talk.
SPEAKER: Dr. Kris Darling & Dr. Chad Hornbuckle (Army Research Lab)
Dr. Darling completed his bachelors, masters and PhD from the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA under the guidance of Carl Koch and Ron Scattergood. He completed his PhD in 2009 and joined as a postdoctoral fellow at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. He has recently joined as a permanent staff in of ARL in 2010. His group focuses on the fundamental processing-microstructure-property relationships in novel structural metals, with particular emphasis on the unique properties that emerge at the nano scale. Specific areas of interest include; 1) The processing and consolidation of non-equilibrium and metastable particulate materials. 2) Thermodynamic and kinetic concepts and principles governing grain growth and microstructural stability. 3) Fundamental physics of deformation in nanostructured metallic alloys under extreme environments, including, temperature, strain rate and radiation. 4) Advanced characterization, including aberration corrected transmission and scanning electron microscopy, coupled with 3D atom probe tomography. 5) Computational materials simulation and design. 6) Commercialization of stabilized bulk nanocrystalline alloys.
Dr. Hornbuckle received his bachelors, masters and PhD from the University of Alabama in 2014. His dissertation worked focused on NiTi based shape-memory alloys for actuator and bearing applications. Upon defending his dissertation, he accepted a post-doctoral fellow at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in 2014 under the guidance of Dr. Kris Darling. He was converted to a DOD civilian employee in 2016. His research background focuses on understanding the fundamental mechanisms controlling materials properties through high-end characterization techniques such as scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and atom probe tomography.
DEADLINE: Friday, November 3rd
COST: $25 ($15 for students and retirees)