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Joining a list that includes iconic structures such as the
Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower—the Department of
Energy’s Savannah River Site, Weber Metals, and Alcoa
Cleveland Works have officially been dedicated as Historical
Landmarks by ASM International.
Savannah River Site
Designation of the Savannah River Site (SRS) occurred on
May 13, in Aiken, S.C., with the presentation of a historical
plaque by Prof. C. Ravi Ravindran, president of ASM Inter-
national. Ravindran noted that the award recognized SRS
“for advancing the materials technologies necessary to pro-
duce tritium, plutonium, and other isotopes for national de-
fense, research, and medical applications.”
Savannah River National Laboratory director, Dr. Terry
Michalske, joined Ravindran at the presentation, acknowl-
edging that the designation validated the work of people who
contributed to decades of research, development, and execu-
tion. “This is really a tribute to the can-do spirit of a lot of
people who looked at things and said ‘we can do that,’” ex-
plains Michalske. “That’s as true today as it’s ever been, and
it’s a fitting recognition for the quality of work that’s been
done here.”
The plaque will be permanently placed near the former M
Area facilities, where fuel and target assemblies were once
produced for the site’s production reactors.
ASM President
C. Ravi Ravindran
(left) presents the
ASM Historical
Landmark plaque
to executive vice
president and
director of SRNL,
Terry Michalske.
Weber Metals
Dr. Alton D. Romig Jr., FASM, vice president and general
manager at Lockheed Martin and a past president of ASM
(left), congratulates Weber Metals president and CEO Rick
Creed after presenting the company with a Historic Land-
mark plaque in front of Weber’s 38,000-ton hydraulic forging
press, which was declared an ASM Historical Landmark in
Paramount, Calif., on April 16. The event was attended by
Weber leadership, officials from Weber’s parent company
Otto Fuchs Metallwerke, and citizens of Paramount.
Alcoa Cleveland Works
Alcoa Cleveland Works’ 50,000-ton hydraulic press re-
ceived designation as an ASMHistorical Landmark by ASM
International and the Forging Industry Association at a ded-
ication ceremony on May 9 before more than 100 employees
and 20 industry guests. The ceremony was attended by sev-
eral ASM past trustees and members of the Cleveland Chap-
ter, as well as Dr. Sunniva Collins, ASM vice president.
Michael A. Kinney, manufacturing director of Alcoa Forgings and
Extrusions (left), and Dr. Sunniva Collins, FASM, ASM vice presi-
dent, unveil the Alcoa plaque.
Nominations are currently being accepted for the
2015 Historical Landmark Award until February 1, 2015.
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of the lattice; and hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity, in
which hydrogen attached to the dislocation shields its inter-
action with other elastic obstacles. The latter mechanism is
supported directly by experiment, but the connection be-
tween hydrogen enhancing the velocity of dislocations and
hydrogen-induced failure has remained tenuous.
Recent advances in experimental tools are providing new
opportunities to discover the fundamental processes respon-
sible for hydrogen-induced failure. Using these new tools, it
has been found that hydrogen accelerates the evolution of the
microstructure and stabilizes it in unanticipated states. Based
on these observations, it is proposed that hydrogen acceler-
ates the evolution of the dislocation microstructure by the hy-
drogen-enhanced plasticity mechanism, which work hardens
the matrix to an unexpected degree at low strains and stresses
and it redistributes the hydrogen to regions of greatest dislo-
cation activity. It will be demonstrated that these two conse-
quences dictate the fracture mode and the fracture path.
These observations suggest a possible metallurgical solution
to producing alloys with a higher tolerance to hydrogen.
Official ASM Annual Business Meeting Notice
The Annual Business Meeting of members of
ASM International will be held in conjunction with
MS&T14 on:
Monday, October 13
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh
The purpose of the ASM Annual Business Meeting is the
election of officers for the 2014-15 term and transaction of
other society business.
2013 ASM Historical Landmarks
—Dedication Ceremonies