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Loewy Institute Graduate Researcher Mahsa Navidirad Presents Research on Experimental and Modeling Investigation of Oxide Layer Fragmentation and Metal Micro-Extrusion Behavior During Cold Rolling of Aluminum Alloy at TMS2022

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     From February 27th to March 3rd 2022, TMS held their annual conference at the Anaheim Convention Center & Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, CA. TMS2022 marked the 150th conference held by the organization, which has been in existence since 1871.      Loewy Institute Graduate Researcher Mahsa Navidirad attended TMS2022 and presented her research, Experimental and […]

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Loewy Institute Researchers Recipients of 2022 National Science Foundation Grants for PowderMet2022 & AMPM2022 to be held June 12-15 in Portland, OR

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     Please join us in extending our congratulations to Loewy Institute graduate researchers Mahsa Navidirad and Chia-chun Chao and undergraduate researchers Cole Kuehmann and Kazuki Watanabe for receiving 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Grants. Kazuki was also the recipient of a 2022 Center for Powder Metallurgy Clayton Family Foundation scholarship; you can read a

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In Memoriam: Betzalel Avitzur, MS&E Professor Emeritus, Metal Forming Pioneer, Inaugural Loewy Chair and First Director of the Institute for Metal Forming at Lehigh

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      Lehigh’s inaugural Loewy Chair, Dr. Avitzur, passed away at age 96 on January 19th, 2022. Dr. Avitzur founded Lehigh’s Institute for Metal Forming (IMF), which is now known as The Loewy Institute. Throughout his life, Dr. Avitzur’s research and teaching made numerous, substantial contributions to metal forming in both industry and academia. A detailed

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Undergraduate Research Assistant Kazuki Watanabe Receives CPMT Scholarship

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     The Clayton Family Scholarship for Studies in Powder Metallurgy was created in 2000 and is awarded annually to 5 universities. Recently, Loewy Institute undergraduate researcher Kazuki Watanabe was notified that he would be one of the recipients of the 2021 CPMT scholarship.      We spoke with Kazuki about the CPMT scholarship process, his

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Loewy Institute Director, Dr. Wojciech Misiolek, Interviewed by STLE for Podcast on AM and HM–“Perfecting Motion: Tribology and The Quest for Sustainability”

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     The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) recently sat down with Loewy Institute Director Dr. Wojciech Misiolek to discuss additive manufacturing. The host of the podcast, STLE’s Dr. Neil Canter, (STLE Advisor, Technical Programs and Services) spoke with Dr. Misiolek about additive manufacturing research conducted by The Loewy Institute, as well as current

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Loewy Institute Graduate Research Assistant Mahsa Navidirad Publishes Collaborative Work with University of Calabria on Friction Stir of Al Alloys

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     Mahsa Navidirad, Graduate Research Assistant at The Loewy Institute, recently published research she completed alongside research colleagues at University of Calabria in Italy. The title of Mahsa’s article–which is published in Elsevier’s Journal of Manufacturing Processes (Volume 70, October 2021, pp. 553-559)–is “Effect of material properties and process parameters on quality of friction stir

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Loewy Institute Director, Professor Wojciech Misiolek, to Instruct Applied Fundamentals for Aluminum Extruders Workshop for AEC on 9/13/2021

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     Loewy Institute Director, Professor Wojciech Misiolek, will be leading a workshop titled Extrusion Excellence: Applied Fundamentals for Aluminum Extruders in conjunction with the Aluminum Summit at Nashville, TN on Monday, September 13th, 2021.      The workshop will take place at Sheraton Music City Airport Hotel from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The hotel

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Loewy Graduate Researcher Mahsa Navidirard Presents at ICTP 2021

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     On Monday, July 26th, Loewy Institute graduate researcher Mahsa Navidirad presented her research at ICTP 2021. Mahsa’s presentation–“Investigation on the Strain Induced Oxide Layer Fracture and Bonding During Cold Rolling of Aluminum Alloys”–was given at ICTP’s 13th International Conference on the Technology of Plasticity.      Mahsa’s co-authors include former Loewy Institute alumni researchers Wojciech

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Michael Pires presenting at Tungsten2021

Graduate Researcher Michael Pires Presents at Tungsten2021

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     From June 20th to June 23rd, MPIF hosted the AMPM 2021, Powder Met 2021, and Tungsten 2021 conferences, concurrently, in Orlando, Florida.      Loewy Institute graduate researcher and PhD candidate Michael Pires attended the conference, presenting his and his colleagues’ work. The title of Michael’s presentation and accompanying manuscript was “Investigation of Powder Bed

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