CMSC 2025 Lecturers
The Awards Recipients for 2025.
D.K.C. MacDonald Memorial Lecturer
The D.K.C. MacDonald Memorial Lecturer is an important focus of the conference and the Lecturer is chosen by the Chair of the conference.
2025 Recipient
Allison Beese
Professor, Penn State University
Tools to enable the adoption of metal additive manufacturing in structural applications
Abstract
The thermal histories in laser-based additive manufacturing (AM) of metal alloys results in microstructures that may contain phases, grain morphologies, or internal pores different from those seen in their conventionally processed counterparts. These microstructures dictate the resulting mechanical properties of the alloys; thus, to enable the adoption of AM for structural applications, an understanding of the links between microstructure and deformation and/or fracture is required to reliably design against failure. In this talk, I will present our work in two general areas: modeling the impact of internal defects on the multiaxial failure behavior of additively manufactured metallic materials, and the development of a framework for designing functionally graded materials in which the composition may be spatially tailored to impart site-specific properties within a 3D component.
Biography
Allison Beese is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University. She also serves as Director of Penn State’s Additive Manufacturing and Design graduate program and co-director of Penn State’s Additive Manufacturing center (CIMP-3D). Her multiscale mechanics of materials research group focuses on using experimental and computational methods to identify and model the links between microstructural features and deformation and failure of materials, with a focus on additively manufactured metallic materials. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.
Metal Chemistry Award
History: The Metal Chemistry Award was conceived by Professor H. Hancock of the Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1988 to recognize outstanding contributions to metallurgical chemistry as epitomized by the inaugural winner, Professor L.M. Pidgeon of the University of Toronto. Since the time of its inception, the award has included recipients from universities, industry and government laboratories engaged in research activities ranging from hydrometallurgy, molten salt chemistry, corrosion and fundamental physical chemistry bearing upon smelting and refining processes.
2025 Recipient
Joey Kish
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University
Corrosion Performance of Al Alloy Castings for Automotive Lightweighting
ABSTRACT
Lightweighting is a key contributor towards increasing fuel economy of internal combustion vehicles, and range of zero emission vehicles, as required to comply with regulated greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Al alloys with suitable castability and mechanical properties are well suited for such a purpose. Moreover, their ease of recyclability makes them well suited to comply with emerging circular economy regulated targets. Corrosion is arguably the “Achilles heel” of Al alloy castings, which can adversely affect materials performance during service. Quantifying the effect of corrosion on mechanical properties, as well as delineating associated controlling metallurgical aspects serves two important needs: (i) provide engineering design data for safety factor determination considering in-service damage (corrosion) accumulation and (ii) provide end-of-life metal blending strategies (alloy development) for improved intrinsic corrosion control. This presentation will summarize ongoing corrosion performance research being carried out to meet these needs. This includes (i) determining the effect of pre-corrosion on secondary hypoeutectic Al-Si alloy die castings (made using 60% recycled end-of-life (EOL) metal) and (ii) determining the localized corrosion susceptibility of new dilute hypoeutectic Al-Fe alloy die castings made with Zn and Mg additions for solid solution and precipitation hardening strengthening as lightweighting alternatives to conventional Al-Si alloy die castings.
Biography
Prof. Kish leads a research team focused on corrosion and its control of structural engineering alloys in terms of determining influence of metallurgical aspects on the controlling anode and cathode processes across multi length scales from macro (weld zones) down to nano (grain boundary and second phase particles). He currently is the Scientific Director of the McMaster’s Centre for Automotive Materials and Corrosion. He joined McMaster in 2008 after spending 10 years working industry: two years as a Materials Specialist with NORAM Engineering & Construction Limited (Vancouver, BC) and eight years as a Corrosion Scientist at the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (Vancouver, BC).
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Metal Physics Award
History: The Metal Physics Award was conceived by Professor T.S. Hutchison of the Royal Military College of Canada to recognize achievements in fundamental physics of importance to the understanding of metals as materials. At the time of its first award to Z.S. Basinski in 1977, the advancement of dislocation theory was the very essence of the kind of achievement the award was intended to recognize. Although the Award since that time has been awarded for excellence in a much broader range of research achievement including advancement in non-metallic materials.
2025 Recipient
Mark Daymond
Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen’s University
Ion irradiation – a tool to emulate neutron irradiation in structural alloys
ABSTRACT
The flux of neutrons found in a nuclear reactor results in many changes to structural materials, causing changes to mechanical and corrosion properties, as well as physical shape changes. These changes arise due to changes to the microstructure: due to mass transport, formation of novel dislocation structures, and the formation or dissolution or amorphization of secondary phases.
Charged particles introduce defects into materials that are comparable to those produced by neutron irradiation. In terms of studying the properties of reactor materials they have the advantages of reduced activation and being able to introduce damage very rapidly. However, challenges exist when using the technique and care should be taken when extrapolating to the neutron irradiation case.
The talk will review some important effects of irradiation on structural materials, and explain the use of ion irradiation to study these effects. Some examples of the application of the technique will be presented along with a discussion of some of the challenges.
Biography
Mark Daymond is a Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University in Canada. He leads a research program that focuses on relating microstructural changes to macroscale properties, with a particular interest on the impact of irradiation damage. His research covers both experimental and modelling approaches. He holds a UNENE Research Chair in Nuclear Materials, which supports research related to the fleet of operating Canadian nuclear reactors, as well as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mechanics of Materials. He is Director of the Reactor Materials Testing Laboratory (RMTL) which includes an ion accelerator-based irradiation facility. Before coming to Queen’s he completed his degrees at the University of Cambridge (UK), did a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) and worked for several years at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory near Oxford (UK).
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Early Career Researchers
Daria Humeniuc
MASc Candidate, University of Guelph
Bahar Ronnasi
PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa
Xiaoye Zhao
PhD Candidate, University of Waterloo