Mechanical Behavior of Materials
Tim Foecke
Materials Performance Group
Metallurgy Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Projects:
Expertise:
- Fracture in Materials (Metals, Ceramics, Composites, Polymers)
- Deformation Mechanisms
- Structure / Property Relationships
- Failure Analysis and Forensic Metallurgy
- Historical Metallurgy
Experimental Techniques:
- Mechanical Testing, Acoustic Emission
- SEM, TEM, SPM, Optical Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction (incl. in situ testing)
- Finite Element Analysis
- Digital Image Processing, Simulation and Reconstruction