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Position: Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering; Director of the Center for Welding, Joining, and Coatings Research Education: Ind. Chemist, ETFMG, Brazil;
Met.Eng. & M.Sc. Metallurgical Engineering, Escola de Engenharia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil;
Ph.D. Metallurgical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Research Interests: Arc welding consumables design, underwater wet welding, materials joining processes, phase transformations in weld systems, explosive processing, materials for the power industry.
Address: Hill Hall, Room 254
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303-273-3796
FAX: 303-384-2189; 303-273-3795
E-Mail: sliu@mines.edu
For more detailed information, please visit my personal web page at: http://www.mines.edu/~sliu/
My interest in joining sciences actually started about 25 years ago when I was a research metallurgist working in the areas of steel making and ingot pouring in an integrated steel mill. The intense chemical reactions in a ladle of molten steel fascinated me.
In fusion welding, you have the same ingredients of excitement but with at least one extra degree of challenge - the dynamic nature of the welding process. Reactions happen in the molten weld pool in only a matter of seconds.
My research foci include weld-pool chemistry and physics, weld-metal phase transformations in ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, welding consumables design, welding fume formation, underwater wet welding, joining of dissimilar materials, explosive processing of materials, and hybrid laser arc welding.
Examples of my current research programs include:
