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Many members of the MONSTER Research Group embarked on their annual trip to TMS 2026 in San Diego, CA, where they presented their research to an international audience. It may have been his first time attending, but Partha stepped up big time to help out Begley (who was unable to attend because of new job […]

Avid Game of Thrones enjoyers may know the quote: “…light as a feather, quick as a snake…” But in this group, we make feathers out of steel! Thank you, Leslie Tharp at Fever Metal Art Center here in Gainesville, FL for hosting our second annual group blacksmithing adventure. Looking forward to next time!

Yonguk Lee published “Unraveling the impact of pressure and hold time in post-process heat treatments on microstructure and microhardness evolution in laser powder bed fusion Alloy 718” in Progress in Additive Manufacturing. This collaborative work with the Illinois Institute of Technology reports the accelerated recrystallization of LPBF Alloy 718 during the HIP process, suggesting that […]

Dr. Benjamin Begley becomes the fourth student to graduate with a PhD from the MONSTER Research Group, defending his dissertation entitled “An Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Approach to Predicting Local Texture Evolution in Two-Phase Titanium Alloys.” Congrats Begley!

What happens when you let metallurgists out of the lab? They don’t touch grass, they instead find their way back to metal, of course! After taking a few blacksmithing classes herself, Tori organized a MONSTER group blacksmithing adventure for her grad students with the help of Leslie Tharp at Fever Metal Art Center here in […]

Megan Hurley has published her first paper entitled “Microstructural Evolution of Steel during Magnetic Field Assisted Processing” in a JOM special issue for diffusionless phase transformations in engineering alloys. This paper discusses how applying varied magnetic field strengths during thermal processing impacts the formation and growth of austenite, martensite, and pearlite microstructures in a near-eutectoid […]

The MONSTER Research Group is thrilled to announce that Dr. Tori Miller has been awarded the Vladimir A. Grodsky Professorship in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at UF! This prestigious recognition honors Dr. Miller’s sustained performance and excellence in research, teaching, and service in materials science & engineering with a specialization in metals. Congratulations, Dr. […]

Tianchen Wei published his first paper “Laser Bending Behavior of Austenitic Stainless Steels and Characterization of the Resultant Microstructures” in the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. This study establishes a correlation between the initial microstructure of the material and the resulting bending angles achieved through laser sheet metal forming. It further elucidates the microstructural […]

Yonguk Lee recently published “On the Formation of Multiply Coherent γ Grains in a Powder Metallurgy Ni Base Superalloy” in the Superalloys 2024 proceedings. The paper reports a unique γ microstructure which contains multiple pinning particles inside that are coherent (multiply coherent gamma grains, MCGs), which are explained to have possibly formed through the combined effect of initial orientation […]

Yonguk Lee recently published “Prevalence of Heteroepitaxial Recrystallization in the Low Solvus High Refractory (LSHR) γ–γ′ Superalloy” in Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis. The paper reports the observation of HeRX outside of low-misfit Ni-base superalloys for the first time, which suggests that HeRX can contribute to microstructural evolution in a much wider range of polycrystalline Ni-base […]