Oxidation Resistance of Alloys from Nb-Si-Cr System for High Temperature Applications.

摘要

This project was a research and education grant from ONR. The total period for the grant was 5 years. The purpose is to explore alloys from Nb based alloys for high temperature applications and involves undergraduate and graduate students in this educational component. The main aim for students education was to generate interest in students to pursue higher education for undergraduate students while prepare the graduate students for professional careers in research (at one of the ONR facilities). Outcomes: 8 undergraduate and 8 graduate students completed the program. All the undergraduate students are enrolled in institutions to continue their graduate studies (either M.S. or Ph.D.). One of them is in France to work on his Ph.D. degree. All the graduate students are currently professional individuals at places such as Halliburton, Alcoa Gas Company in Oklahoma etc. One of them owns a silver mine in Mexico and is conducting the extraction of silver from the ores. The results of this research have been published in refereed journals throughout the tenure of this grant. It is the policy of this research that graduate students must have a peer reviewed publication before they can defend their M.S. theses or Ph.D. dissertations which indicate the authored names. Journal of Materials Science, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Corrosion Science and Journal Alloys and compounds are a few examples where results have been published.