George "Rusty" Gray's accomplishments recognized at TMS honorary symposium

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Rusty Gray

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Rusty Gray (Materials Science in Radiation and Dynamics Extremes, MST-8) was honored with a six-session symposium during TMS 2015, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s (TMS) 144th annual meeting and exhibition, held in March in Orlando, Florida.

Gray, who has a PhD in metallurgical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, joined the Laboratory in 1985. He pursues fundamental and applied research primarily in the elucidation of the structure and property behavior of materials subjected to dynamic and shock-wave deformation.

The “Constitutive Response and Modeling of Structural Materials” symposium, in honor of Gray’s 60th birthday, was a forum for discussing recent investigations concerning structure/property relations within structural materials – the heart of Gray’s work. Primary focus areas included constitutive response/modeling of structural materials, characterization of microstructural, textural, and damage evolution; prediction and simulation of strength and damage evolution; and model validation and experimental support.

Ellen Cerreta (MST-8), Eric Brown (Neutron Science and Technology, P-23), Neil Bourne (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), James Williams (The Ohio State University), and Kenneth Vecchio (University of California – San Diego) organized the symposium, with sponsorship from the TMS Structural Materials Division and the Mechanical Behavior of Materials Committee.

As the 2010 TMS president, Gray broadened the society’s international reach through conferences with the Brazilian Metallurgical Society and the Canadian Metallurgical Society, helped organize an Energy Materials Blue Ribbon panel to explore how advances in materials science and engineering could contribute to an energy-efficient and low-carbon economy, and spearheaded a study on volunteerism, one of his personal passions. He has served on TMS programming, titanium, and mechanical behavior committees, and on its board of directors as Structural Materials Division chair and director of publications; and has received the Structural Materials Division’s Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award. He is a Fellow of TMS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the American Physical Society, and ASM International.

The TMS encompasses the entire range of materials and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic research and the advanced applications of materials. The annual meeting draws more than 4,000 business leaders, engineers, scientists, and other professionals in the materials field for an exchange of technical knowledge leading to solutions in the workplace and in society. Technical contact: Rusty Gray