{"id":510,"date":"2023-10-05T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle1stg.wpenginepowered.com\/mse\/?page_id=510"},"modified":"2023-10-13T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:00:24","slug":"peter-liaw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/faculty\/peter-liaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Liaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"profilePageTitle\">John Fisher Professor, Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence, National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor<\/p>\n<p><!-- Right Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column pull-right\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"profileImage alignnone wp-image-491 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Liaw-Peter.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Liaw\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Liaw-Peter.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Liaw-Peter-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"profilePageCard\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n<p>406 Ferris Hall,<br \/>\n1508 Middle Drive,<br \/>\nKnoxville, TN 37996-2100<\/p>\n<p><b>Phone<\/b><br \/>\n865-974-6356<\/p>\n<p><b>Email<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:pliaw@utk.edu\">pliaw@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mechanical behavior<\/li>\n<li>Fatigue and fracture behavior<\/li>\n<li>Nondestructive-evaluation<\/li>\n<li>Neutron\/synchrotron studies of advanced materials, including bulk-metallic glasses, nano-structural materials, high-entropy alloys, superalloys, steels, and intermetallics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igert.org\/projects\/197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- Left Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"two-thirds column \">\n<p><!-- Biography --><\/p>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p align=\"justify\">Peter Liaw graduated from the Chiayi High School, obtained his BS in Physics from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, USA, in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>After working at the Westinghouse Research and Development (R&amp;D) Center for thirteen years, he joins the faculty and becomes an Endowed Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, since March 1993.\u00a0 He has been working in the areas of fatigue, fracture, nondestructive evaluation, and life-prediction methodologies of structural alloys and composites.\u00a0 Since joining UT, his research interests include mechanical behavior, nondestructive evaluation, biomaterials, and processing of high-temperature alloys and ceramic-matrix composites and coatings with the kind and great help of his colleagues at UT and the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory.\u00a0 He has published over five hundred papers, edited twenty books, and presented numerous invited talks at various national and international conferences.<\/p>\n<p>He was awarded the Royal E. Cabell Fellowship at Northwestern University. He is a recipient of numerous \u201cOutstanding Performance\u201d awards from the Westinghouse R&amp;D Center.\u00a0 He was the Chairman of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) \u201cMechanical Metallurgy\u201d Committee, and the Chairman of the American Society for Metals (ASM) \u201cFlow and Fracture\u201d Committee. He has been the Chairman and Member of the TMS Award Committee on \u201cApplication to Practice, Educator, and Leadership Awards.\u201d He is a fellow of ASM.\u00a0 He has been given the Outstanding Teacher Award, the Moses E. and Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor Award, the Engineering Research Fellow Award, the National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor Award, the L. R. Hesler Award, and the John Fisher Professorship at UT, and the TMS Distinguished Service Award.<\/p>\n<p>He has been the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program, the Director of the NSF International Materials Institutes (IMI) Program, and the Director of the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program at UT. Several of his graduate students have been given awards for their research and presentations at various professional societies and conferences.\u00a0 Moreover, his students are teaching and doing research at universities, industries, and government laboratories.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Education --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD, Northwestern<br \/>\n<em>Advanced Structural Alloys, including Bulk-Amorphous, Nano-Materials, and High-Entropy Alloys, Bulk-Amorphous and Nano-Materials Processing, Fatigue and Fracture Behavior, Nondestructive Characterization, including In-situ Neutron and Synchrotron Diffraction and Thermography Detection, and Theoretical Modeling<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Professional Service --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Professional Service<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fellow, American Society for Metals; The Minerals, Metals, &amp; Materials Society<\/li>\n<li>Technical Advisor for Journal of Metals (JOM)<\/li>\n<li>Key Reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of the Flow and Fracture Committee, American Society for Metals (ASM), and The Minerals, Metals &amp; Materials Society (TMS)<\/li>\n<li>Chairman and Member of the TMS Committee on Application to Practice, Educator, and Leadership Awards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Awards & Recognitions --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Awards &amp; Recognitions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Director, NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training, International Materials Institutes, and Major Research Instrument programs<\/li>\n<li>Haynes International Gift Funds<\/li>\n<li>Westinghouse Outstanding Performance<\/li>\n<li>2011, 2008, and 2003 Moses E. and Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professorship at The University of Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>2010 L. R. Hesler Award at The University of Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>2007 Distinguished Service Award, the 2007 TMS 136th Annual Meeting and Exhibition<\/li>\n<li>2006 The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) Outstanding Service Award<\/li>\n<li>1997 Fellow, ASM International<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- Research Publications --><\/p>\n<h2>Research Publications<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>S. Cheng, Y. H. Zhao, Y. M. Wang, Y. Li, X. L. Wang,\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, and E. J. Lavernia, \u201cStructure Modulation Driven by Cyclic Deformation in Nanocrystalline NiFe,\u201d\u00a0<u>Physical Review Letters<\/u>,\u00a0Vol. 104, Issue 25, p. 255501 (2010).<\/li>\n<li>S. Cheng, Y. H. Zhao, Y. Z. Guo, Y. Li, Q. M. Wei, X. L. Wang, Y. Ren,\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, H. Choo, and E. J. Lavernia, \u201cHigh Plasticity and Substantial Deformation in Nanocrystalline NiFe Alloys Under Dynamic Loading,\u201d\u00a0<u>Advanced Materials<\/u>, Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 5001-5004 (2009).<\/li>\n<li>S. L. Wang, Y. H. He, X. S. Fang, J. Zhou, Y. Yang, H. Huang, P. M. F. J. Costa, M. Song, B. Y. Huang, C. T. Liu,\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, Y. Bando, and D. Golberg, \u201cStructure and Field-Emission Properties of Sub-Micrometer-Sized Tungsten-Whisker Arrays Fabricated by Vapor Deposition,\u201d\u00a0<u>Advanced Materials<\/u>,\u00a0Vol. 21,\u00a0No. 23, pp. 2387-2392 (2009).<\/li>\n<li>S. Cheng, A. D. Stoica, X. L. Wang, Y. Ren, J. Almer, J. A. Horton, C. T. Liu, B. Clausen, D. W. Brown,\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, and L. Zuo, \u201cDeformation Crossover: From Nano to Mesoscale,\u201d\u00a0<u>Physical Review Letters<\/u>, Vol. 103, No. 3, p. 035502 (2009).<\/li>\n<li>H. Q. Li, H. Choo, Y. Ren, T. A. Saleh, U. Lienert,\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, and F. Ebrahimi, \u201cStrain-Dependent Deformation Behavior in Nanocrystalline Metals,\u201d\u00a0<u>Physical Review Letters<\/u>,\u00a0 Vol. 101, No. 1, p. 015502 (2008).<\/li>\n<li>Y. He, Y. Jiang, N. P. Xu, J. Zou, B. Y. Huang, C. T. Liu, and\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, \u201cFabrication of Ti-Al Micro\/Nanometer-Sized Porous Alloys through the Kirkendall Effect,\u201d\u00a0<u>Advanced Materials<\/u>, Vol. 19, Issue 16, pp. 2102-2106 (2007).<\/li>\n<li>H. Li, C. Fan, K. Tao, H. Choo, and\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, \u201cCompressive Behavior of a Zr-Based Metallic Glass at Cryogenic Temperatures,\u201d\u00a0<u>Advanced Materials<\/u>, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 752-754 (2006).<\/li>\n<li>C. Fan, H. Li, L. J. Kecskes, K. Tao, H. Choo,\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, and C. T. Liu, \u201cMechanical Behavior of Bulk Amorphous Alloys Reinforced by Ductile Particles in Cryogenic Temperature,\u201d\u00a0<u>Physical Review Letters<\/u>, Vol. 96, No. 14, pp. 145506 1-4 (2006).<\/li>\n<li>Yan-Dong Wang, Yang Ren, Hongqi Li, Hahn Choo, Michael L. Benson, Don Brown,\u00a0<strong>Peter K. Liaw<\/strong>, Gang Wang, D. E. Brown, E. E. Alp, and Liang Zuo, \u201cTracing Memory in Polycrystalline Ferromagnetic Shape-Memory Alloys,\u201d\u00a0<u>Advanced Materials<\/u>, Vol. 18, No. 18, pp. 2392-2396 (2006).<\/li>\n<li>Y. D. Wang, H. B. Tian, A. D. Stoica, X. L. Wang,\u00a0<strong>P. K. Liaw<\/strong>, and J. W. Richardson, \u201cThe Development of Grain-Orientation-Dependent-Residual Stresses in a Cyclically Deformed Alloy,\u201d\u00a0<u>Nature Materials<\/u>, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 101-106 (2003).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Selected Patents<\/h4>\n<p>Method for Bonding Glassy Metals with Patent Number of I33150, Applicants: Shinghoa Wang, Peihung Kuo,\u00a0<strong>Peter K. Liaw<\/strong>, Guojiang Fan, Hsiaotsung Tsang, Dongchun Qiao, and Feng Jiang. Assignment for Published Patent Application: National Taiwan Ocean University; Foreign Application: Taiwan 096148928, 12\/20\/2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fisher Professor, Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence, National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor Contact Information 406 Ferris Hall, 1508 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":329,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-wide.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peter Liaw - Materials Science and Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/faculty\/peter-liaw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Liaw - 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