Dr. T.G. Nieh
Professor
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Brief Bio
Dr. T.G. Nieh is currently a professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Tennessee, holding a joint faculty appointment with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He joined UT in 2004. From 1994 to 2004, Nieh worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Senior Research Fellow. From 1980 to 1992, he worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. (now Lockheed-Martin Corporation) as a Senior Fellow of Research Laboratory.
Nieh is a world leader in superplasticity and superplastic forming. He is also widely recognized for his work in many materials disciplines, including bulk metallic glasses, nanocrystalline materials, lightweight aluminum and magnesium alloys, metal-matrix composites, intermetallics, refractory metals, bioceramics, and nanolaminates. He published over 340 papers and a textbook on “Superplasticity of metals and ceramics’ and is one of the ISI highly-cited materials scientists. He is now serving as an Associated Editor of three international journals: Journal Intermetallics, Journal of Materials Characterization, and International Materials Review.
Nieh received the Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 1980 from Stanford University, the M.S. degree in Physics in 1976 from University of Washington, Seattle, and the B.S. in 1973 from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.
Research Areas
1. Mechanical behavior of bulk metallic glasses
2. Mechanics of cells
3. Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline alloys.
4. Synthesis and deformation behavior of nanolaminates.
Selected Awards and Honors
2004 Fellow of TMS (The Materials, Minerals, and Metallurgical Society
1992 Fellow of
ASM International (American Society of Materials)
Professional Activities
» Board member of International Advisory Board on Superplasticity, and has served in a number of national review/advisory panels on materials science.
» Consulting Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology, China,
» Consulting Professor of University of Science and Technology-Beijing, China
» Adjunct Professor of Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.
Selected Publications
S.X. Song, N. Kim, and T.G. Nieh, ‘Deformation behavior of a twin-roll-cast Mg-6Zn-0.5Mn-0.3Cu-0.02Zr alloy at elevated temperatures,’ Scripta Mater. 56, 393–395 (2007).
B. Yang and T. G. Nieh, ‘Effect of nanoindentation rate on the shear band formation in an Au-based bulk metallic glass,’ Acta Mater. 55(1), 295-300 (2007).
J. P. Chu, H. Wijaya, C. W. Wu, T. R. Tsai, C. S. Wei, T. G. Nieh, and J. Wadsworth, ‘Nanoimprint of gratings with a bulk metallic glass,’ Appl. Phys. Lett, 90(3) no. 034101 (2007).
Akihiko Hirataa, Yoshihiko Hirotsu, T.G. Nieh, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, and Nobuo Tanaka, ‘Direct imaging of local atomic ordering in a Pd–Ni–P bulk metallic glass using Cs-corrected transmission electron microscopy,’ Ultramicroscopy, 107, 116-125 (2007).
B. Yang, J. Wadsworth, and T.G. Nieh, ‘Thermal activation in Au-based bulk metallic glass characterized by high-temperature nanoindentation,’ Appl. Phys. Lett,90, 061911 (2007).
Y.F. Gao, B. Yang, and T.G. Nieh, ‘Thermomechanical instability analysis of inhomogeneous deformation in amorphous alloys,’ Acta Mater. 55, 2319–2327 (2007).
Contact Dr. Nieh
422 Dougherty Engineering Building
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-2200
Tel: 865-974-5328,
Fax: 865-974-4115
Email: tnieh@utk.edu