Samuel M. Allen
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Executive Officer of the Department and POSCO Professor of Physical Metallurgy Rooms 8-309 and 13-5018, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 617-253-6939 or 617-253-3525 (phone) 617-252-1175 (fax) smallen@mit.edu |
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BE Metallurgy, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1970 SM Metallurgy, MIT, 1971 PhD Metallurgy, MIT, 1975 Samuel Allen's undergraduate and graduate degrees are in the field of physical metallurgy. His interests focus on understanding the ways in which composition and processing of materials influence microstructure, and how microstructural control can be used to improve materials performance. Current research activities include materials and process development of metallic alloys for use in "three-dimensional printing" of near net-shape high-performance metal parts, and the development and applications of ferromagnetic shape-memory alloy actuator materials. Professor Allen's extra-curricular interests include several crafts, including woodworking and blacksmithing. The latter interest led to the development of the "Physical Metallurgy" Freshman Advisor Seminar at MIT in 1984, in which MIT students learn underlying principles of metallurgy while acquiring traditional blacksmithing skills. More recently, that activity has broadened to include metal casting. Through these activities, he developed interest in the metallurgy of steel weapons as practiced in Japan, the Near East, and Europe -- especially Damascus steels. Selected Publications Tooling Made by Solid Free Form Fabrication Techniques Having Enhanced Thermal Properties (with E.M. Sachs and H.J. Yoo), U.S. Patent 6,112,804 (2000). Phenomenology of Giant Magnetic-Field Induced Strain in Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Materials (with R.C. O'Handley, S.J. Murray, M.A. Marioni, and H. Nembach), J. of Applied Physics 87 (9): 4712-4717 (2000). The Structure of Materials (with Edwin
L. Thomas), John Wiley and Sons (1999). Back |
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