MSE Colloquium Feb 11 Tori Miller, Liquid Metal Embrittlement: Cracking Open the Disparate Mechanisms

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Zoom webinar
United States

photo of Victoria Miller, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of FL
Victoria "Tori" Miller
Assistant Professor
University of Florida
 

Abstract

Liquid metal embrittlement (LME) is the term for a collection of phenomena by which the action of a liquid metal in contact with the surface of a solid metal results in the weakening, loss of ductility, or otherwise mechanical degradation of the solid metal. Despite upwards of 100 years of study on this topic, the ability to predict the occurrence or severity of embrittlement in any given liquid–solid metal pair has eluded the community, in no small part due to the lack of an agreed upon mechanism or mechanisms that explain the observed phenomenology. In this talk, Miller will assert that liquid metal embrittlement is not a single phenomenon but three separable and interacting mechanisms. Through this lens, she will discuss the future of the field and newly unlocked directions of study for predicting and preventing LME.
 

Bio

Assistant Professor Victoria (Tori) Miller has been in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida since September 2019. Prior to her appointment at UF, she was an assistant professor at NC State University from 2017 to 2019.  She received her B.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2011 and completed her Ph.D. in the Materials Department at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2016. After graduate school, she worked for a year at UES, Inc. as a Research Scientist onsite in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, OH. She had also previously worked at Ford Motor Company Research and Development, Toyota Engineering and Manufacturing North America, and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Outside the lab, she trains for and competes in powerlifting.


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