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Dr. Collings has
conducted research on the metallurgical, physical, and superconductive
properties of metals and alloys, has published more than 220 scientific
articles, books, and videotapes, and has presented numerous papers worldwide.
Dr. Collings taught
physics at the University of Wellington, New Zealand before joining the
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA and subsequently Battelle Memorial
Institute in Columbus, OH. In 1995 he joined Ohio State's MSE Department
where he established the Laboratories for Applied Superconductivity and
Magnetism (LASM). He is the sole author of five books and the co-editor
of eleven.
His areas of expertise
include:
- Microwave electronics
at 3 and 10 GHz,
- Metal and alloy
processing techniques including microgravity processing and the development
of advanced space-processing techniques,
- Heat transfer
in closed-die forging,
- Aspects of surface
science,
- Scientific instrumentation,
- Phase equilibria,
transformations, precipitaion, and aging in titanium alloys,
- Physics of liquid
metals and alloys,
- Solid-solution
strengthening,
- Electrical transport
properties,
- Electron paramagnetic
resonance in dilute alloys,
- Magnetic properties
of intermetallic compounds dilute alloys and austenitic stainless steels,
- Properties of
rapidly quenched microcrystalline and amorphous alloys,
- Low-temperature
and high-temperature superconductivity.
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| Above: Laboratory
for the rapid gallium quenching of short research samples of Nb+Al
composite wire in the development of a commercial reel-to-reel process
for the production of long lengths of Al5Nb3Al superconducting wire
for use in the windings of very high field magnets. |
Close-up
of the high vacuum chamber in which a short Nb+Al composite wire is
resistively heated to 1800-2200° C and quenched to metastable
bcc-phase Nb-25%Al by plunging it into liquid gallium. |
Service to the Scientific
Community Includes:
- Member of the
Superconducting Materials Committee, TMS;
- Member, Past Secretary,
and Past Chairman of the Committee on Alloy Phases, TMS;
- Past Member and
Past Chairman of the Hume- Rothery Awards Committee, TMS;
- Past Member, and
Past Chairman of the Hume- Rothery Medal and Acta Metallurgica Gold
Medal Awards Committee, TMS;
- Past Member of
the Board of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference (CEC);
- Member and Past
Board Chairman of the International Cryogenic Materials Conference Board
(ICMC);
- Chairman of the
1983 ICMC Conference (Colorado Springs, CO);
- Co-chairman of
the 1988 ICMC Conference (Shenyang, China);
- Co-organizer of
the 1992 ICEC/ICMC Conference (Kiev, Ukraine);
- Co-organizer of
the 1994 ICMC Conference (Honolulu, HI);
- Chairman of the
1995 ICMC Conference (Columbus, OH);
- Co-chairman of
the International Workshop on Critical Currents in Superconductors for
Practical Applications (Xi 'an, China, 1997);
- Co-organizer of
High-Tc Symposium for IUMRS-ICAM Meeting (Beijing, China, 1999).
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| Dr. Michael
Sumption and Mr. Florin Buta conducting research in one of the LASM
laboratories. |
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