Dr. Sammy Tin, Patrick R. Taylor Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona will give a seminar titled "Design Approaches for Advanced High Temperature Structural Materials" to the interested faculty and students at Discovery Park.

Abstract

In many cases, transformational design concepts are often limited by the capabilities of existing engineering materials. This necessitates the need for the development of advanced materials that can serve as enabling technologies that can be used to realize these concepts. For example, the performance, efficiency and emissions of advanced gas turbine engines for power generation and aerospace propulsion is limited by the temperature capability of the structural materials used in the hot section of the engine. In order to meet future requirements for clean power generation and aerospace transportation, innovative materials and processing approaches are required. Recent advances in these critical technologies can largely be attributed to the development of physics-based models, computational tools and novel characterization techniques that provide an improved fundamental understanding of the intrinsic mechanisms governing their characteristic behavior. This talk will discuss some of the advances, challenges and lessons learned associated with developing engineering solutions to overcome these intrinsic limitations and extend the temperature capability of high-performance materials used in gas turbine applications.

Bio

Dr. Sammy Tin is the Department Head and Patrick R. Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona. Formerly, he was the Charles and Lee Finkl Chair of Materials Engineering and Director of the Thermal Processing Technology Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Tin is a Fellow of ASM International and received a B.S. in Materials Engineering from Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo, M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. Professor Tin’s research has focused on the composition – processing – microstructure - mechanical properties - performance relationships in polycrystalline and single crystal Ni-base superalloys. Professor Tin serves on the Editorial Committee for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Materials Science and Engineering A, and was the recipient of the 2004 Rolls-Royce Mark Shipton Patent Award, the 2006 IOM3 Cook/Ablett Award and the 2007 ASM Marcus A Grossmann Award. He has also served as the Chair of the TMS High Temperature Alloys Committee and Chaired the 2021 International Conference on Superalloys. Prof. Tin has 3 patents, 2 patents pending and authored over 150 manuscripts in referred journals and conference proceedings.