Some people currently or recently involved in Al-Sc related research

This listing is based partly on personal contacts and partly on web-pages I have come across while browsing the internet.

Department of Materials Technology at NTNU (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Faculty who have been involved in research with Sc-containing Al alloys:

  • Prof. Em. Nils Ryum was the first one to initiate this research at NTNU, in the early 1990's
  • Prof. Øystein Grong has looked on the effect of Sc for grain refinement during welding.
  • Prof. Knut Marthinsen has looked at Sc in combination with other elements as a dispersoid former.
  • Prof. Hans Jørgen Roven has looked at severe plastic deformation of Sc-containing Al alloys.

    Diplomas (M.Sc. equivalent)

  • Jostein Røyset, Al-Mg-Sc alloys, 1994.
  • Dag Strisland, Extraction of Sc from Thortveitite, 1995.
  • Hilde Wiik (now Hilde Hovland), Al-Sc-Si alloys, 1995.
  • Håkon Hallem, Sc + Zr dispersoids, 2002.

    Dr. Ing.'s (Ph.D. equivalent)

  • Mehdi Gebreil Mousavi, Sc as grain refiner in welding, 1998.
  • Arve Johansen, Al-Mg-Mn-Sc-Zr alloys, 2000.
  • Jostein Røyset, Sc in Al alloys, 2002.
  • Håkon Hallem, Sc + Zr, Hf dispersoids, 2005.

    Post Doc.'s

  • Carl Cross, Sc-containing Al filler material for welding, 1996/1997
  • Yancy Riddle, recrystallisation of Al-Mn-Mg-Zr-Sc, 2001/2002
  • Børge Forbord, Sc + Zr disperdoids

    Northwestern University (Evanston/Chicago, IL, USA)

  • The research groups of Prof. David N. Seidman and Prof. David Dunand have done extensive research on Al-Sc alloys over the past few years.

    Group members working with Al-Sc: Marsha van Dalen and Richard Karnesky.
    Past group members working with Al-Sc: Dr. Christian Fuller and Dr. Emmanuelle Marquis

    Mark Asta and Vidvuds Ozolins (Sandia National Laboratories) have been doing Theoretical calculations on the Al-Sc system

  • The Light Alloy Processing Research Group at UMIST, Manchester, UK, has several ongoing projects on Sc-containing alloys.
    Check out the pages of Andy Norman, Kristian Hyde and Fionnuala Costello.
    Online project list. Sc-related projects are no. 102 and no. 107.

  • Peter Mayr and co-workers at the Spray Forming Research Center at the Bremen University, Germany, are currently experimenting with Spray-forming of Sc-containing Al-Cu alloys.

  • Janusz Król and co-workers at the Laboratory of X-ray Diffraction at The Aleksander Krupkowski Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences are investgating Sc-containing Al-alloys.

  • John Vetrano at the Material Interfaces and Characterisation Group of Pacific Northwest Laboratory and his co-workers have conducted several investigations on Al-Mg-Sc and Al-Mg-Mn-Sc alloys over the last few years.
    An online article about some of this work is available in JOM