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T. G. Nieh

Emeritus Faculty

Biography

T. G. Nieh was a professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Tennessee. From 1980 to 1992, he worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. (now Lockheed-Martin Corporation) as a Senior Fellow of Research Laboratory. He subsequently worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Senior Research Fellow until he joined UT in 2004.

Nieh is a world leader in superplasticity and superplastic forming.  He is also widely recognized for his work in several material science disciplines, including multicomponent complex alloys (including high entropy alloys and bulk metallic glasses), nanocrystalline materials, lightweight alloys, metal-matrix composites, intermetallics, refractory metals and nanolaminates.  He published over 400 papers and a textbook on “Superplasticity of metals and ceramics’. He is now serving as Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intermetallics., has served as Editor, Materials Letters, 2008-2013.

Nieh received the Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, the M.S. degree in Physics from University of Washington, Seattle, and the B.S. degree in Physics from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.

Education

  • PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Professional Service

  • Chair and organizer, International Conference Series on Metallic Glasses (including high entropy alloys), I – IIIX
  • Adjunct Professor, WPI-Tohoku University, Japan
  • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Intermetallics
  • Board member of International Advisory Board on Superplasticity
  • Consulting Professor of Hong Kong City University
  • Advisory Board, Department of Applied Physics and Materials,
  • Visiting Chair Professor of National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Awards & Recognitions

  • 2004 Fellow of TMS (The Materials, Minerals, and Metallurgical Society)
  • 1992 Fellow of ASM International (American Society of Materials)

Research Publications

  1. C. Zhu, Z.P. Lu, and T.G. Nieh, “Incipient plasticity and dislocation nucleation of FeCoCrNiMn high-entropy alloy,” Acta Mater, 61 (2013) 2993–3001.
  2. Y. Wu, W. H. Liu, X. L. Wang, D. Ma, A. D. Stoica, T. G. Nieh, and Z. P. Lu, “In situ diffraction study of deformation behavior of a multi-component high-entropy alloy,” Applied Physics Letters 104 (2014) 051910.
  3. J. Y. He, W. H. Liu, H. Wang, Y. Wu, X. J. Liu, T. G. Nieh, and Z.P. Lu, “Effects of Al addition on structural evolution and tensile properties of the FeCoNiCrMn high entropy alloy system,” Acta Materialia 62 (2014) 105–113.
  4. J. Y. He, C. Zhu, D. Q. Zhou, W. H. Liu, T. G. Nieh, and Z. P. Lu, “Steady state flow of the FeCoNiCrMn high entropy alloy at elevated temperatures,” Intermetallics, 55 (2014) 9-14.
  5. D. Wu and T. G. Nieh, “Incipient plasticity and dislocation nucleation in body-centered cubic chromium,” Mater Sci Eng A, 609 (2014) 110–115.
  6. X.D. Xu, P. Liu, S. Guo, A. Hirata, T. Fujita, T.G. Nieh, C.T. Liu and M.W. Chen, “Nanoscale phase separation in a fcc-based CoCrCuFeNiAl0.5 high-entropy alloy,” Acta Materialia 84 (2015) 145–152.
  7. D. Wu, J.R. Morris and T.G. Nieh , “Effect of tip radius on the incipient plasticity of chromium studied by nanoindentation,” Scripta Materialia 94 (2015) 52–55.
  8. Z.P. Lu, H. Wang, M.W. Chen, I. Baker, J.W. Yeh, C.T. Liu, and T.G. Nieh, “An assessment on the future development of high-entropy alloys: Summary from a recent workshop” Intermetallics, 66 (2015) 67-76.
  9. W.H. Wang, Y. Yang, T.G. Nieh, and C.T. Liu, “On the source of plastic flow in metallic glasses: Concepts and models”, Intermetallics, 67 (2015) 81-86.
  10. Y. Wu, H. Wang, Yongqiang Cheng, X. J. Liu, X. D. Hui, TG Nieh, Yandong Wang, and Z. P. Lu, ‘Inherent structure length in metallic glasses: simplicity behind complexity,’ Scientific Reports, 5, 12137; doi: 10.1038/srep12137 (2015).