Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur, Professor

D.Sc. Materials Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
M.Sc. Solid-State Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Tel.: (269) 276-3212
Fax: (269) 276-3421
E-mail: pnina.arigur@wmich.edu
Address:
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Department, WMU
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5343
Laboratory: Materials Science Laboratory

Current Research:

• Nano-crystalline titania as a photocatalyst
• Magnetic shape memory (MSM) alloys
• High-temperature coatings
• Metal matrix nano-composites
• → Materials Science Laboratory

Current and Upcoming Courses:

• ME 3560, Fluid Mechanics (Summer I 2008)
• ME/AAE 2500, Materials Science I (Fall 2008)
• ME 2560, Statics (Fall 2008)

Industrial and R&D Areas of Work:

• Ceramics for elevated temperatures applications
• Ceramics for transducers
• Crystallographic examinations of single and poly-crystals
• Anisotropy and crystallographic texture formation
• Physical metallurgy of α-β and α titanium alloys
• Metal forming by spinning and deep drawing
• Mechanical properties of brazed aluminum structures
• Pyrolytic graphite
• Stress corrosion cracking of steel and aluminum
• Magnetic materials
• Hot tears in lead alloys
• Materials failure analyses
• Inhomogeneity in shear-spun tubes
• Physical metallurgy of steels for exhaust valves
• Physical metallurgy of spring steels
• Plasma sprayed ceramic coatings
• Diffusion coatings

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Last Revised: 7 June 2008