Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur, Professor
D.Sc. Materials Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
M.Sc. Solid-State Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Tel.: (269) 276-3212
Fax: (269) 276-3421
Address: Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
Department, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5343
E-mail to Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur
Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur's current research interests:
- Surface properties
- Nano-ceramics
- Nano-composites (metal matrix)
- Magnetic shape memory alloys (MSM)
- High temperature coatings
Industrial and R & D Areas of Work:
- Ceramics for elevated temperatures applications
- Ceramics for transducers
- Crystallographic examinations of single and poly-crystals
- Anisotropy and crystallographic texture formation
- Physical metallurgy of alpha-beta and alpha titanium alloys
- Metal forming by spinning and deep drawing
- Mechanical properties of brazed aluminum structures
- Pyrolytic graphite
- Stress corrosion cracking of steel and aluminum
- Magnetic materials
- Hot tears in lead alloys
- Materials failure analyses
- Inhomogeneity in shear-spun tubes
- Physical metallurgy of steels for exhaust valves
- Physical metallurgy of spring steels
- Plasma sprayed ceramic coatings
- Diffusion coatings
E-mail to Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur
Last Revised: 15 May 2006. (An updated version is expected in mid August 2006)
