Thomas R. Bieler

Associate Professor

• B.A. Applied Mechanics, University of California, San Diego 1978
• M.S. Ceramic Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle 1980
• Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, Applied Mechanics Dept., 1980-1985
• Ph.D. Materials Science, University of California, Davis 1989
• Assistant, Associate Professor, Michigan State University 1989-present

(Visiting Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, 1999)

• Office: Room 3527 Engineering Building
• Phone: (517) 353-9767
• Fax: ... (517) 432-1105
• Email: bieler@egr.msu.edu

Areas of Interest

• High temperature creep, superplasticity, texture, of metals, intermetallics, and composites
• Damage nucleation, grain boundary deformation characteristics
• Solder & electronic heat sink materials.

Current Research Projects

• Slip Transfer and Microcrack Nucleation in TiAl (AFOSR)
• Lead Free Solder Slip System Modeling, Orientation Imaging Microscopy (NSF)
• Effect of Processing on Functional Properties of High Purity Nb (NSCL)

Publications       163 + 9 in press and 2 submitted as of 5/05

Reviewed Journals:  (10 most recent + selected others)

 

62.           “Characterization of Microstructure and Crystal Orientation of the Tin Phase in Single Shear Lap Sn-3.5Ag Solder Joint Specimens”, A.U.Telang and T.R.Bieler, Scripta Materialia, 52(10), (2005), 1027-31.

 

61.           “Effects of working, heat treatment, and aging, on microstructural evolution and crystallographic texture of a, a’, a” and b phases in Ti-6Al-4V wire”, L. Zeng and T.R. Bieler, Mater Sci. and Eng. A, 392(1-2) pp. 403-414 (2005).

 

60.           “An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Effect of Colony Orientation and Misorientation on Cavitation during Hot Working of Ti-6Al-4V”, T.R. Bieler, P.D. Nicolaou, and S.L. Semiatin, Mater. Metall Trans, 36A(1) (2005) pp. 129-140.

 

59.           “Evolution of Recrystallization Textures from Cold Rolling Textures With Reversed Rolling in High Purity Niobium”, H. Jiang, T.R.. Bieler, C. Compton, T.L. Grimm, TMS Letters: Vol 1(8) 2004, pp. 177-178.

 

58.           “The Role of Mechanical Twinning on Microcrack Nucleation and Crack Propagation in a Near-g TiAl Alloy”, B.C. Ng, B.A. Simkin, M.A. Crimp, T.R. Bieler, Intermetallics, 12(12), (2004), pp. 1317-1323.

 

57.           “The Effect of Grain Boundary Misorientation, Inclination, Crystal Orientation, and Stress State on Microcrack Initiation in Duplex TiAl Grain Boundaries”, A. Fallahi; D. Kumar, A. Zamiri; T.R.. Bieler; M.A. Crimp; F. Pourboghrat; D.E. Mason, TMS Letters: Vol 1(5) 2004, pp. 101-2.

 

56.           Evolution of Recrystallization Textures from Cold Rolling Textures in High Purity Niobium, H. Jiang, A. Fallahi, T.R. Bieler, C. Compton, and T.L. Grimm, TMS Letters, Vol. 1(4), 2004, pp. 79-80.

 

55.           "Dislocation Density Measurements in Commercially Pure Titanium using Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging", M.A. Crimp, J.T. Hile, T.R. Bieler, and M.G. Glavicic, TMS Letters, 1(1), (2004) pp. 15-16.

 

54.           “Comparisons of Experimental and Computed Crystal Rotations due to Slip in Crept and Thermomechanically Fatigued Dual Shear Eutectic Sn-Ag Solder Joints”, A.U. Telang, T.R. Bieler, D.E. Mason, and K.N. Subramanian, Journal of Electronic Materials 32(12), 1455-62 (2003).

 

53.           “A Factor to Predict Microcrack Nucleation at g-g Grain Boundaries in TiAl”, B.A. Simkin, M.A. Crimp, T.R. Bieler, Scripta Mater. 49(2), (2003), 149-154.

A dozen others…

44.           “The Origins of Heterogeneous Deformation During Primary Hot Working of Ti-6Al-4V”, T.R. Bieler and S.L. Semiatin, International Journal of Plasticity 18, (2002) 1165-1189.

 

39.           “Stress Relaxation of Tin-Silver Eutectic and Composite Solder Joints,” S. Jadhav, T.R. Bieler, K.N. Subramanian, and J.P. Lucas, J. Electronic Materials Vol. 30, No. 9, (2001), 1197-1205.

 

38.           "Transitions in Morphology Observed in Nitrogen/Methane-Hydrogen Depositions of Polycrystalline Diamond Films", V. M. Ayres, M. Farhan, D. Spach, J. Abdul Majeed, B. F. Wright, B. L. Wright, J. Asmussen, M. Kanatzidis and T. R. Bieler, J. Appl. Phys. 89, 6062-8, 2001.

 

36.           "Effect of Texture and Slip Mode on the Anisotropy of Plastic Flow and Flow Softening During Hot Working of Ti-6Al-4V", S.L. Semiatin and T.R. Bieler, Metall Mater Trans., 32A, 1787, 2001.

 

28.           "Creep Deformation Behavior in Eutectic Sn-Ag Solder Joints Using a Novel Mapping Technique," J.P. Lucas, F. Guo, J. McDougall, K.N. Subramanian, T.R. Bieler, J.K. Park, J. Electronic Materials, 28, 1270, 1999.

 

22.           “Shear Creep Deformation In Polysynthetically Twinned Ti-47Al-2Nb-2Cr with <110> and <112> Orientations”, D.Y. Seo, C.H. Wu, and T.R. Bieler, High-Temperature Intermetallics Proceedings from the 4th International Conference, eds. D.P. Pope, C.T. Liu, S.H. Whang, M. Yamaguchi, in Materials Science and Engineering,  A239-40, (1997), 450-56

 

20            "Mechanism of High Strain Rate Superplasticity in Aluminum Alloy Composites", R.S. Mishra, T.R. Bieler, and A.K. Mukherjee, Acta Mater., 45, No. 2, (1997) pp. 561-568.

 

15            "A Numerical Force and Stress Analysis on a Thin Twin Layer in TiAl", Z. Jin and T.R. Bieler, Phil. Mag. A, 72, 1201-19, (1995).

 

12            "An In Situ observation of mechanical twinning nucleation and propagation in TiAl", Z. Jin and T.R. Bieler, Phil. Mag. A, 70, 819-36, (1995).

 

11            "Overview No. 119, Superplasticity in Powder Metallurgy Aluminum Alloys and Composites", R.S. Mishra, T.R. Bieler, A.K. Mukherjee, Acta Metall. et Mater., 43, 877-891, (1995).

 

4              "The High Strain Rate Superplastic Deformation Mechanisms of Mechanically Alloyed Aluminum IN90211", T.R. Bieler and A.K. Mukherjee, Mater. Sci. and Eng., A128, 171-182, (1990).

 

2              "The Role of Adiabatic Heating on High Rate Superplastic Elongation", T.R. Bieler and A.K. Mukherjee, Scripta Metallurgica, 24, 1003-1008, (1990).

 

Books (Editor):

7              Trends in Materials and Manufacturing Technologies for Transportation Industries and Powder Metallurgy Research and Development in the Transportation Industry, 6th Global Innovations Proceedings, eds, T.R. Bieler, J.E. Carsley, H. Fraser, J.E. Smugeresky, TMS, Warrendale, PA, 2005,. 394 pages.

 

6              Hot Deformation in Aluminum Alloys III, (Proceedings from a symposium held in San Diego March 3-6, 2003), eds. Z. Jin, A. Beaudoin, T.A. Bieler, B. Radakrishnan, TMS, Warrendale, PA, 2003, 556 pages.

 

5              Rate Processes in Plastic Deformation II: Towards a Unified Constitutive Theory of Deformation, TMS Fall Meeting 2000, 9-10 October, 2000, St. Louis, MO, USA, guest eds. S.V. Raj, T.R. Bieler, F. A. Mohamed and B. Kad, Materials Science and Engineering, A322 (15 January 2002), pp. 1-256.

 

4              Hot Deformation in Aluminum Alloys II, eds. T.R. Bieler, Lawrence Lalli and Stuart MacEwen, TMS Warrendale, PA, 1998, 434 pages.

 

3              Superplasticity and Superplastic Forming 1998, eds. A.K. Ghosh and T.R. Bieler, TMS Warrendale, PA, 1998, 336 pages.

 

2              Superplasticity and Superplastic Forming 1995, eds. A.K. Ghosh and T.R. Bieler, TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1995, 281 pages.

 

1              Advances in Hot Deformation Textures and Microstructures, eds. J.J. Jonas, T.R. Bieler, and K.J. Bowman, TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1994, 591 pages.

Book Chapters/Sections:

a              Materials:  Titanium alloys (MS: 536) Thomas R. Bieler, Ryan M. Trevino, Liang Zeng, Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, eds, Professor Franco Bassani, Dr Gerald Liedl, Prof. Dr Peter Wyder, in press.

 

2              "Superplasticity in Hard-to-Machine Materials", T.R. Bieler, R.S. Mishra and A.K. Mukherjee, Annual Review of Materials Science, vol 26, (1996) pp. 75-106.

 

1              "Mechanical Shaping of Metal Matrix Composites", K.N. Subramanian, T.R. Bieler and J.P. Lucas, in Key Engineering Materials, eds. G.M. Newaz, H. Neber-Aeschbacher and F.H. Wohlbier, Trans Tech. Ltd., Switzerland, 1995, V104-107, part 1: pp. 175-214.

 

 

Other Journal Articles: 

 

5.             “Orientation Imaging Microscopy of Lead-Free Sn-Ag Solder Joints”, A.U. Telang, T.R. Bieler, JOM, 57(6), (2005), June 2005, 44-49.

 

4.             “Use of Crystallography and Electron Microscopy Techniques to Quantify Hetrogeneous Strain and Damage Nucleation Phenomena”, T.R. Bieler, M.A. Crimp, D.E. Mason, S.L. Semiatin, B.A. Simkin, B.C. Ng, Advanced Measurement Methods Web Journal, Society of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 1 (http://www.sem.org/Afosr/) (2002).

 

3.             “Using OIM to investigate the microstructural evolution of Ti-6Al-4V”, T.R. Bieler, M.G. Glavicic, and S.L. Semiatin , JOM, 54(1), (January 2002), 31-36.

 

2.             “Creep Properties of Eutectic Sn-Ag Solder and Sn-Ag Composite Solders Containing Intermetallic Particles", S. Choi, J. Lee, F. Guo, T.R. Bieler, K.N. Subramanian, and J.P. Lucas, JOM, 53, No.6, (June 2001), 22-27.

 

1              "High Strain Rate Superplasticity in Aluminum Matrix Composites", T.R. Bieler, R.S. Mishra, and A.K. Mukherjee, JOM 48(2), February 1996, pp. 52-57.

 

Reviewed Conference Articles (selected):

 

38.           “The Role of Special Boundaries During Solidification and Microstructure Evolution in Lead Free Solder Joints”, Adwait U. Telang, Thomas R. Bieler, Proceedings of International Conference on Texture of Materials, (ICOTOM 14), Leuven Belgium, July 10-15, 2005, Materials Science Forum, 495-497 (2005) pp. 1419-1424.

 

37.           “Dislocation Activity and Slip Analysis Contributing to Grain Boundary Sliding and Damage During Thermomechanical Fatigue in Dual Shear Lead-Free Solder Joint Specimens”, A.U.Telang and T.R.Bieler, International Conference on Texture and Anisotropy of Polycrystals (ITAP 2),  Metz, France, 2004, Solid State Phenomena 105 (2005) pp. 219-226.

 

30.           “Mechanisms of Lamellar Refinement During Primary Creep of Near-Gamma Duplex TiAl”, D.Y. Seo, T.R. Bieler, International Symposium on Gamma Titanium Aluminides, eds. Y.W. Kim, D.M. Dimiduk, M.H. Loretto, (TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1999), pp. 701-8.

 

28.           “Mechanisms of Primary and Secondary Creep in Near-Gamma TiAl Alloys”, T.R. Bieler, D.Y. Seo, T.R. Everard, P.A. McQuay, in Creep Behavior of Advanced Materials for the 21^st Century eds. R.S. Mishra, A.K. Mukherjee and K. Linga Murty, (TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1999), pp. 181-196.

 

26.           “The Effect of Carbon Concentration on Primary creep of an Investment Cast Ti-47Al-2Mn-2Nb+0.8vol%TiB2 Alloy”, D.Y. Seo, T. Everard, P.A. McQuay, T.R. Bieler, Interstitial and Substitutional Solute Effects in Intermetallics, eds. I. Baker, R.D. Noebe, and E.P. George, (TMS, Warrendale, PA, 1998) pp. 227-244.

 

20            “Effect of Interstitial Concentration and Heat Treatment on Microstructure and Primary Creep of Investment Cast Ti-47Al-2Mn-2Nb with 0.8v% TiB₂”, D.Y. Seo, T.R. Bieler, and D.E. Larsen, High-Temperature Ordered Intermetallic Alloys VII, eds. C.C. Koch, C.T. Liu, N.S. Stoloff, A. Wanner,  Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 460 (Pittsburgh, PA, 1997), pp. 281-6.

 

14            "Region I Deformation Mechanisms in High Strain Rate Superplastic IN9021", T.R. Bieler and A.K. Mukherjee, Superplasticity and Superplastic Forming 1995, eds. A.K. Ghosh and T.R. Bieler, pp. 153-160, (TMS Warrendale, PA, 1995).

 

Other Conference Articles:

 

33            Effect of Growth Velocity on Development of Preferred Orientations in Directionally Solidified TiAl-2Mo-2Nb, T.R. Bieler, D.Y. Seo, H. Saari, J. Beddoes, Aerospace Materials and Manufacturing: Development, Testing, and Life Cycle Issues - Honouring William Wallace, 2^nd International Symposium, 43^rd Annual Conference of Metallurgists of CIM Hamilton, ON, August 2004, eds. P.C. Patnaik, M. Hahazi, M. Elboujdaini, J. Luo, MetSoc/CIM 2004, pp 275-87.

 

31            “Mechanical Properties, Microstructure, and Texture of Electron Beam Butt Welds in High Purity Niobium”, H. Jiang, T.R. Bieler, C. Compton, T. Grimm, Proceedings of the 2003 Particle Accelerator Conference (12-19 May 2003, Portland Oregon), IEEE Publishing, (2003), pp. 1359-1361.

 

25            “Texture measurement and simulation of multi-pass hot rolling of Ti-6Al-4V in the two phase temperature range” Thomas R. Bieler and S.L. Semiatin, J.J. Jonas symposium, COM 2000, proceedings, CIM, Montreal, 2000, pp. 253-64.

 

13            "The Role of Threshold Stresses and Incipient Melting in High Strain Rate Superplasticity", T.R. Bieler, R.S. Mishra, and A.K. Mukherjee, Proceedings of International Conference on Superplasticity in Advanced Materials, Materials Science Forum Vols. 170-2, pp. 65-70, (1994).

 

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