4 ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | OCTOBER 2023 ASM International 9639 Kinsman Road, Materials Park, OH 44073 Tel: 440.338.5151 • Fax: 440.338.4634 Joanne Miller, Editor joanne.miller@asminternational.org Victoria Burt, Managing Editor vicki.burt@asminternational.org Frances Richards and Corinne Richards Contributing Editors Anne Vidmar, Layout and Design Allison Freeman, Production Manager allie.freeman@asminternational.org Press Release Editor magazines@asminternational.org EDITORIAL COMMITTEE John Shingledecker, Chair, EPRI Beth Armstrong, Vice Chair, Oak Ridge National Lab Adam Farrow, Past Chair, Los Alamos National Lab Rajan Bhambroo, Tenneco Inc. Daniel Grice, Materials Evaluation & Engineering Surojit Gupta, University of North Dakota Michael Hoerner, KnightHawk Engineering Hideyuki Kanematsu, Suzuka National College of Technology Ibrahim Karaman, Texas A&M University Ricardo Komai, Tesla Bhargavi Mummareddy, Dimensional Energy Scott Olig, U.S. Naval Research Lab Christian Paglia, SUPSI Institute of Materials and Construction Amit Pandey, Lockheed Martin Space Satyam Sahay, John Deere Technology Center India Kumar Sridharan, University of Wisconsin Jean-Paul Vega, Siemens Energy Vasisht Venkatesh, Pratt & Whitney ASM BOARD OF TRUSTEES Pradeep Goyal, President and Chair Navin Manjooran, Senior Vice President Elizabeth Ho man, Vice President David B. Williams, Immediate Past President Lawrence Somrack, Treasurer Amber Black Ann Bolcavage Pierpaolo Carlone Hanchen Huang André McDonald Christopher J. Misorski U. Kamachi Mudali James E. Saal Dehua Yang Sandra W. Robert, Executive Director STUDENT BOARD MEMBERS Kingsley Amatanweze, Karthikeyan Hariharan, Denise Torres Individual readers of Advanced Materials & Processes may, without charge, make single copies of pages therefrom for personal or archival use, or may freely make such copies in such numbers as are deemed useful for educational or research purposes and are not for sale or resale. Permission is granted to cite or quote from articles herein, provided customary acknowledgment of the authors and source is made. The acceptance and publication of manuscripts in Advanced Materials & Processes does not imply that the reviewers, editors, or publisher accept, approve, or endorse the data, opinions, and conclusions of the authors. THE NEW (FA) ENGINEER Tucked away near the labyrinth of bridges, tunnels, and steel structures of downtown Pittsburgh is one of its unsung guardians. Matergenics Inc., a materials testing laboratory, provides corrosion risk assessment and failure analysis (FA) for the aging infrastructure of the Iron City and beyond. Recently, I met company founder, Dr. Mehrooz (Zee) Zamanzedeh, FASM, and received a tour of Matergenics and its Museum of Material Failures. The museum showcases his team’s accumulation of knowledge from decades of failure assessments. According to Dr. Zee, the two most common failure mechanisms are corrosion and vibration. The latter leads to fatigue cracks. As he described the steps involved in his team’s condition assessment of a new project, Dr. Zee interspersed what he sees as “the role of the new FA engineer.” The characteristics he enumerated as important in modern FA seem applicable to all engineers. In fact, we found connections between Dr. Zee’s description of the new FA engineer and some of the authors in this issue. Interdisciplinary thinking. An FA engineer must explore all dimensions of a case—the original design, materials used, manufacturing process, and wear during usage—to get to a root cause. That echoes the sentiment of our “Bridging Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science” article, which asks five experts to discuss the inherent connection between the two disciplines. Environmental consideration. Dr. Zee and his team have seen a dramatic increase in cases due to climate change and its impact on infrastructure and utilities. He has been called to the California wildfires to assess the damage that prolonged heat has on the steel lattice structures, which hold power lines. The extreme environment of space posed a different problem for two inventors from the NASA Glenn Research Center. Through an interview synopsis, learn about their challenges in finding an alloy that can hold up against the high temperatures of aeronautics and space missions. New technologies. The modern FA engineer embraces new technologies by using artificial intelligence (AI), satellites, and sensors to gather and analyze data. Likewise, an archaeometallurgist shows how the use of micro-x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy has become a helpful tool in his field for examining ancient museum pieces without causing harm to the precious artifact. Also, ASM’s Executive Director Sandy Robert outlines in her column how the Society is already using AI as a critical new partner in its operations. “Load bearing” members. Dr. Zee encourages his staff to be someone their team can rely on, to be a stalwart who carries their weight. Our ASM News section includes these workers. For example, meet Ed Cole, Jr., FASM, who is a pillar of ASM’s Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society (EDFAS) and co-founder of EDFA magazine. And by any condition assessment, Dr. Zee and Matergenics are more than carrying their weight in the FA industry. joanne.miller@asminternational.org Dr. Zee in his Museum of Material Failures.
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