iTSSe TSS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | JULY/AUGUST 2023 51 iTSSe TSS FEATURE The Center for Thermal Spray Research (CTSR) at Stony Brook completed 25 years as a U.S. National Center of Excellence in Thermal Spray Technology in 2021. Details about the Center and its evolution were featured in a previous edition of iTSSe[1]. CTSR’s planned celebratory event was postponed from 2021 to 2022 due to the pandemic. With COVID-19 finally easing up in 2022, the team organized a unique workshop aiming to connect the past with the future. The “Bridging Generations in Thermal Spray Technology” workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from the 1960s to the present covering some 70 years of interest in thermal spray technology. The workshop, conducted over two days on the Stony Brook campus, covered key technologies and milestones in thermal spray technology and its applications along with contemporary research activities within the Center. The workshop coincided with CTSR’s regular biannual Consortium for Thermal Spray Technology event. More than 100 participants braved the “COVID-19 risk” and participated in the festivities. Highlights of the workshop included several key presentations from thermal spray experts and notables in the field. EMINENT PRESENTERS AND CONTRIBUTORS Prof. Herbert Herman, FASM, TSS-HoF, Distinguished CENTER FOR THERMAL SPRAY RESEARCH AT STONY BROOK CELEBRATES MILESTONE WITH ONE-OF-A-KIND WORKSHOP More than one hundred participants attended a special workshop at Stony Brook’s Center for Thermal Spray Research in celebration of its 25-year contribution to the industry. Sanjay Sampath, FASM, TSS-HoF* Center for Thermal Spray Research, Stony Brook, New York Professor Emeritus and founder of the thermal spray program at Stony Brook and the first Center Director was a celebrated presenter. He discussed the evolution of thermal spray science in the U.S. starting in the 1970s. Prof. Herman was also one of the original organizers of the ASM Thermal Spray Division (which is now the Thermal Spray Society (TSS)) and the program chair of the first National Thermal Spray Conference organized by ASM. Numerous students who were advised by Prof. Herman over the decades have continued to impact thermal spray technology and are active participants and contributors to ASM’s thermal spray mission. Bob Betts, retired from Cincinnati Thermal Spray (CTS) and General Electric (GE) following a 60-year career in thermal spray technology, was a featured senior speaker. Betts was responsible for developing and implementing plasma sprayed CuNiIn coatings on GE’s bypass engine fan blade, which went on to power the Boeing 747. He described how the project was conceived in 1968 and within two years they had the coating qualified for flight. Beyond materials and processes, another early challenge was the complexity of applying a coating into a groove without the availability of advanced robotics. Betts brought with him the coated component, which he has kept with him for the past 50 years *Member of ASM International 6 Attendees and presenters gather during the historic workshop at Stony Brook.
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