Mark L. Weaver Professor

Areas of Research

• High Temperature Coatings
• Materials Characterization
• Mechanical Behavior
• Metals
• Oxidation

Dr. Mark Weaver’s primary research interests include microstructural characterization, oxidation and high-temperature corrosion, mechanical behavior, tribology, Atom Probe Tomography/Microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and electron microscopy. His research focuses on establishing the fundamental linkages between the microstructures and properties of materials.

Weaver’s current areas of research include processing and properties of protective coatings for high temperature applications; deformation and fracture behavior of structural alloys; phase transformations and phase equilibria in high temperature shape memory alloys, intermetallic compounds, and high entropy alloys; and solid-state processing of metallic structural alloys. His active research topics are:

• Oxidation behavior of high entropy alloys and related materials
• High-rate deformation mechanisms in high-entropy alloys containing nanocrystalline grains

While there, he studied: texture evolution in magnetoresistive thin film materials and rapidly solidified titanium aluminide intermetallics; elevated temperature deformation of nickel-base superalloys and intermetallics; and superplasticity in Al-SiC composites.

Dr. Weaver's active research topics are:

• Microstructures, properties, and oxidation behavior of transition metal-based and refractory metal-based high entropy alloys.
• Oxidation behavior of metallic high entropy alloys.
• Microstructures and properties of high-temperature shape memory alloys for use an aeronautic turbomachinery.
• Solid-state additive friction stir deposition of materials.