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Terry R. McNelley
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Mail Code: MAE/Mc
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: 831-656-2589
Email: tmcnelley (at) nps.edu
EDUCATION:
PhD - Stanford, 1973
BS - Purdue, 1967
NPS EXPERIENCE:
  • 1987-Present: Professor. Chairman, 1996 - present (initial appointment:1996, re-appointment: 1999)
  • 1979-1987: Associate Professor
  • 1976-1979: Assistant Professor
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
  • 1987 - 1999 - Visiting Scientist, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalurgicas (CENIM), Madrid, Spain (1999)
  • Visiting Distinguished Lecturer, Japan National Defense Academy, Yokosuska, Japan (1993)
  • Visiting Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. (1987)
  • 1980 - 1981 - Visting Professor, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, UK
  • 1972 - 1976 - Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (advanced to tenure, 1976)
TEACHING INTERESTS:
  • Materials science at the introductory and advanced levels
  • Mechanical behavior of materials
  • Advanced composites
  • Failure analysis
  • Welding metallurgy
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Microstructure-mechanical property correlation in metallic materials
  • Thermo-mechanical processing and superplasticity of metals
  • Deformation-induced microstructures, grain boundaries and recrystallization
  • Applications of Orientation Imaging Microscopy (OIM) to deformation processing
  • Deformation and fracture of metal matrix composites
AWARDS:
  • Fellow, American Society for Materials International (ASMI), elected 2001
  • American Society for Testing and Materials Achievement Award, 1972
BOARDS/MEMBERSHIPS:
  • 1982 1983: External research review board, Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, PA
  • 1987-1993: Key reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
  • 1996 1998 2000: Reviewer for DoE SBIR programs
  • 1999-Present: Member, U.S. Committee on Superplasticity of ASMI
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
  • T.R. McNelley, “Chapter 22: Continuous Recrystallization and Grain Boundaries in a Superplastic Aluminum Alloy”, in Electron Backscatter Diffraction, (A.J. Schwartz, et al., eds), Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2000, pp.277-290
  • M.T. Pérez-Prado, D.L. Swisher and T.R. McNelley, “Deformation Banding, Grain Boundaries and Continuous Recrystallization in a Superplastic Aluminum Alloy”, in Proceedings of THERMEC 2000 (T. Chandra, K. Higashi, C. Suryanarayana and C. Tomé, eds.), Elsevier, London, 2001, Section G2.
  • M. Eddahbi, T.R. McNelley and O.A. Ruano, “The Evolution of Grain Boundary Character during Superplastic Deformation of an Al-6 Pct. Cu-0.4 Pct. Zr Alloy”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 32A, 2001, pp.1093-1102
  • M.T. Pérez-Prado, G. González-Doncel, O.A. Ruano and T.R. McNelley, “Texture Analysis of the Transition from Slip to Grain Boundary Sliding in a Discontinuously Recrystallized Superplastic Aluminum Alloy”, Acta Materialia, 49, 2001, pp. 2259-68
  • T.R. McNelley and D.L. Swisher, ”Deformation Banding and Grain Boundaries in Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys”, in Proceedings of Modeling the Performance of Engineering Structural Materials II (D.R. Lesuer and T.S. Srivatsan, eds.), TMS, Warrendale, PA, 2001, pp. 195-202
  • (Selected Publications List)
KEYWORDS/TECHNOLOGIES:
  • Keywords: Superplasticity, Thermomechanical processing, Orientation Imaging Microscopy (OIM), Metal matrix composites



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