Colorado School of Mines — Department of Mechanical Engineering
Golden, CO · US · publishing in AM since 2012
Process-structure-property relationships and melt-pool control in metal AM
Joy Gockel is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, having previously held a faculty position at Wright State University. Her PhD at Carnegie Mellon under Jack Beuth produced foundational work on the use of process maps to relate melt-pool geometry and cooling rate to grain size and morphology in Ti-6Al-4V — methodology that has since been adopted across the metal AM community for parameter development in both LPBF and DED. Her current research focuses on linking in-situ thermal and melt-pool sensing data to local microstructure and resulting mechanical performance, with applications to qualification of high-value aerospace and defence components. Gockel has been active in the SFF symposium community and contributes to the development of ASTM AM standards. Her group also works on AM of refractory and high-temperature alloys.
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