Ryan Holdsworth earned his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and is now a doctoral student studying Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on understanding the work-hardening behavior of metals through a Kocks-Mecking model formulation. This analysis aims to take a construction based upon first principles and see its use in engineering applications. The focus of the research has been on additively manufactured metals to see if this method can be used to characterize the large variation in properties that can be seen through changes in the processing conditions.
Collaborators: Sandia National Laboratories, Diran Apelian Research Group – University of California, Irvine.