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Alex Aning

Associate Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering
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Location:

445 Old Turner St.
Holden Hall Room 288
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Research Interests:

  • Structure-property relationships
  • Powder processing and mechanical alloying
  • Processing and sythesis of metallic, ceramic, and polymeric materials and composites
  • Amorphous phase-strengthened metal matrix composites
  • Application of inter friction to the study of phase transformations in metallic solids

Education:

  • B.S., Physics, Morgan State University, 1976
  • Ph.D., Metallurgical Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla (Missouri S&T), 1982