Professor Anthony D. Rollett Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D., Drexel University Department of Materials Science and Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Roberts Engineering Hall 148 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: Phone: (412) 268-3177 Fax: (412) 268-3113 Professor Rollett's Web Site

Biography

Professor Rollett obtained an M.A. in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Cambridge University, England in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Drexel University in 1987. He worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory for sixteen years, rising to be the Deputy Director of the Materials Science & Technology Division in 1994. He then moved to CMU to be the Department Head in Materials Science & Engineering, which position he occupied from 1995 to 2000. He became a Fellow of ASM International in 1996 and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) in 2004. He is active in the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at CMU; is the Focal Area Point of Contact for Computational Chemistry & Materials for the DoD; is the Chair of the International Committee for the Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth; was Chair of the International Conference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM) held at CMU in 2008; he also is involved in the DOE Computational Materials Science Network.

Research Interests

Statistical methods for describing and constructing microstructures in three dimensions; microstructure-property relationships in crystallographically textured materials; grain boundaries, their anisotropic properties and their impact on microstructural evolution; grain growth and recrystallization; structure and properties of nano-laminate composites; computer simulation of microstructural evolution and properties of materials; texture- and interface- sensitive properties, e.g. strength, fatigue resistance, corrosion resistance.

Recent Publications

“Three-Dimensional Characterization of Microstructure by Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction”, A.D. Rollett, S.-B. Lee, R. Campman, G.S. Rohrer, Annual Review of Materials Research, 37: 627-658 (2007).

“Statistically Representative Three-Dimensional Microstructures Based on Orthogonal Observation Sections,” D.M. Saylor, J. Fridy, B.S. El-Dasher, K.-Y. Jung, and A.D. Rollett, Metall. Mater. Trans., 35A, 1969-1979 (2004).

"Three-Dimensional simulation of isotropic coarsening in liquid phase sintering – I. Model". Lee S.-B., Rickman J.M., Rollett A.D., Acta Materialia, 55 (2), 615-626 (2007).

"Sparse data structure and algorithm for the phase field method". Gruber J, Ma N, Wang Y, Rollett AD, Rohrer GS. Model. Sim. Materials Sci. & Eng., 14, 1189–1195 (2006).

“Effect of anisotropic grain boundary properties on grain boundary plane distributions during grain growth”, J. Gruber, D.C. George, A.P. Kuprat, G.S. Rohrer and A.D. Rollett, Scripta mater., 53, 351-355 (2005).