Bruce Pint
Fusion Materials Program
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Post Office Box 2008
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
865-576-2897
pintba@ornl.gov

Field of Specialization:

Environmental brittlement of vanadium alloys and compatability of ceramic MHD coatings with lithium.

Education:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • PhD, Ceramic Science and Engineering, 1992
  • BS, Materials Science and Engineering, 1988

Employment History:

  • 1994 - 1997 Department of Energy Distinguished Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
  • 1997 - present Research Staff Member in the Metals and Ceramics Division, Corrosion Science and Technology Group

Honors and Awards:

  • Department of Energy Distinguished Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 1994-1997

Recent Publications:

  1. J. R. DiStefano, B. A. Pint, J. H. DeVan, H. D. Röhrig and L. D. Chitwood, "Effects of Oxygen and Hydrogen at Low Pressure on the Mechanical Properties of Vanadium Alloys," submitted to ICFRM-9, Colorado Springs, CO, October 1999, in press.
  2. D. T. Hoelzer, B. A. Pint and I. G. Wright, "A Microstructural Study of the Oxide Scale Formation on an ODS Fe-13Cr Alloy," submitted to ICFRM-9, Colorado Springs, CO, October 1999, in press.
  3. J. R. DiStefano, B. A. Pint and J. H. DeVan, "Oxidation of Refractory Metals in Air and Low Pressure Oxygen Gas," submitted to TMS Fall Meeting, November 1999, CIncinnati, OH, TMS Symposium Proceedings, Warrendale, PA, in press.
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