Longyu Zhao’s abstract, “Measuring Permeability and Heat Transfer in 3D Metallic Weaves and Comparing with Simulations based on X-ray Tomographic Imaging”, gets accepted as a poster in the 2nd International Congress on 3D Materials Science in Annecy, France.

Mar 18, 2014
2014

Weihs lab gets a new Perkin Elmer DSC 8000 to replace the old Perkin Elmer DSC Pyris-1.

Mar 15, 2014
2014

The DoE and U.S. Army project “Brazing Dissimilar Metals with Novel Composite Foils” successfully holds kick off meeting, at which Alex Kinsey and Kyle Slusarski give their presentations.

Mar 11, 2014
2014

Michael Grapes gets broadcasted by CBS Baltimore for “The Big Dig Out”, check it out: Link (Starts at 00:26).

Feb 25, 2014
2014

Thomas Voisin from Laboratory of Material Elaboration and Structural Studies in France presents a seminar, Development of titanium aluminides by Spark Plasma Sintering: to a low cost near-net shape blade with enhanced properties, on 2/24/14 at 2:00pm in Maryland Hall 103.

Feb 15, 2014
2014

Michael Grapes gives a public presentation in the student seminar and successfully defends his thesis proposal.

Feb 2, 2014
2014

The Weihs Group celebrates the retirement of Mike Franckowiak, who has been a senior instrument designer in the machine shop for 30 years! Thanks Mike for helping generations of students in the Weihs Group.

Dec 15, 2013
2013

Dr. Joerg Braeuer from the Fraunhofer Institute in Chemnitz Germany visits the Weihs Research Group and discusses the Integrated Reactive Materials System that his group has developed for wafer bonding and hermitic sealing.

Nov 15, 2013
2013

Michael Grapes, Kyle Overdeep, and Professor Weihs present at the SHS 2013 Conference in San Padre Island, Texas.

Oct 15, 2013
2013

The Weihs Group wins a 4 year DOE/VTP Grant entitled: BRAZING DISSIMILAR METALS WITH A NOVEL COMPOSITE FOIL.

Sep 25, 2013
2013

Adam successfully defends his PhD thesis, The Effect of Nonuniform Microstructures in Ni/Al Laminate Sheets and Powders, and begins employment this September as a Sr. Process Engineer at Special Metals Inc. in Utica NY. Congratulations Adam!

Sep 17, 2013
2013

The Weihs Group, in conjunction with collaborators at NIST (Dr. David LaVan) and LLNL (Drs. Thomas LaGrange and Geoff Campbell), win a 3 year NSF Grant entitled: Nucleation in Solid Metallic Solutions with Steep Composition Gradients.

Sep 4, 2013
2013

Prof. Weihs presents an invited lecture, Characterizing In Situ Microstructures and Thermodynamics of Rapid Phase Transformations Far From Equilibrium, at the 2013 Gordon Research Conference on Physical Metallurgy.

Jul 15, 2013
2013

Prof. Weihs serves as a co-organiser for the CECAM Workshop: Reactive Multilayers Foils – Bridging the gap from Thermodynamics, Modelling and Experiments. He also presented a talk on dynamic TEM on behalf of Dr. Thomas LaGrange.

Jul 11, 2013
2013

Dentist Laura Darnell successfully defends her PhD thesis, VARIATIONS IN THE MECHANICAL, CHEMICAL, AND MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF ENAMEL. Congratulations Dr. Darnell!

Jul 1, 2013
2013

Longyu Zhao gives an oral presentation, Enhanced Permeability of 3D Woven Lattice Structures, at MetFoam 2013 in Raleigh, NC.

Jun 29, 2013
2013

Prof. Weihs presents an invited lecture, Rapid, Room-Temperature Bonding of Small and Large Components with Reactive Materials, at the Fraunhofer ENAS Chemnitzer Seminar.

Jun 22, 2013
2013

Dr. Karsten Woll moves to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to begin a position as a researcher.

Jun 3, 2013
2013

Professor Weihs and Nick Krywopusk attend the Magnesium Workshop Madrid 2013 in Spain. Nick presents a poster on extrusion of pure Mg.

May 15, 2013
2013

Michael Grapes presents at the Mach Conference in Annapolis, MD.

Apr 15, 2013
2013