Beth Last, Ph.D.

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Research Core Facilities Coordinator, Penn State Behrend
[email protected]
814-898-6134
246 Burke

Mailing Address:
PENN STATE BEHREND
246 BURKE CENTER
ERIE PA 16563

Beth currently oversees the analytical research instrumentation on Behrend's campus as the Research Core Facilities Coordinator. Previously, Beth worked at the Materials Characterization Lab at University Park, in the X-ray Scattering and Mechanical Testing Labs.

Microstructure and Mechanical Characterization
Metals and Metallic Alloys
Additive Manufacturing, Laser-based Directed Energy Depositions
Shape Memory Alloys

Ni-Concentration Dependence of Directed Energy Deposited NiTi Alloy Microstructures, Shape Memory and Superelasticity - June 15, 2019
Collaborators: Reginald Hamilton, Author; Todd Palmer, Author

Correlating microstructure and superelasticity of directed energy deposition additive manufactured Ni-rich NiTi alloys, Journal of Alloys and Compounds - March 30, 2018
Collaborators: Reginald Hamilton, Author; Todd Palmer, Author

Multi-scale shape memory effect recovery in NiTi alloys additive manufactured by selective laser melting and laser directed energy deposition, Journal of Materials Processing Technology - December 1, 2017
Collaborators: Reginald Hamilton, Author; Mohsen Taheri Andani, Author; Mohammad Elahinia, Author

Fabrication of NiTi through additive manufacturing: A review, Progress in Materials Science - October 1, 2016
Collaborators: Mohammad Elahinia, Author; Narges Shayesteh Moghaddam, Author; Mohsen Taheri Andani, Author; Amirhesam Amerinatanzi, Author; Reginald Hamilton, Author

Anisotropic microstructure and superelasticity of additive manufactured NiTi alloy bulk builds using laser directed energy deposition, Materials Science and Engineering: A - September 30, 2016
Collaborators: Reginald Hamilton, Author; Jayme Keist, Author; Todd Palmer, Author

Spatial characterization of the thermal-induced phase transformation throughout as-deposited additive manufactured NiTi bulk builds, Scripta Materialia - May 1, 2015
Collaborators: Reginald Hamilton, Author; Todd Palmer, Author

Ph.D., Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University

M.S., Engineering Science, The Pennsylvania State University

B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University