Andrew Kustas
Affiliate Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Education
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering – Colorado State University (2012)
- Ph.D. Materials Engineering – Purdue University (2016)
- Dissertation: Shear-based Deformation Processing and Characterization of Electrical Steel Sheet
Work Experience
- Sandia National Laboratories (Senior Member of the Technical Staff) – Jan. 2018-Present
- Sandia National Laboratories (Postdoctoral Appointee) – Aug. 2016-Jan. 2018
Recent Publications
- M. R. Jones, F. W. DelRio, R. Puckett, J. Pegues, P. Lu, N. S. Bobbitt, M. E. Chandross, A.B. Kustas, N. Argibay, High-strength additively manufactured multiphase nanostructured Ni-Nb Superalloys, Accepted to Journal of Materials Research, 2021
- J. W. Pegues, M. A. Melia, M. A. Rodriguez, T. F. Babuska, B. Gould, N. Argibay, A. Greco, A. B. Kustas, In situ synchrotron X-ray imaging and mechanical properties characterization of additively manufactured high-entropy alloy composites, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 159505, 2021
- S. Firdosy, N. Ury, A. B. Kustas, J. D. Carroll, P. Pathare, Z. Casias, D. Tung, D. Susan, J. P. Borgonia, V. A. Ravi, R. Peter Dillon, Blown powder directed energy deposition of functionally graded joints between Fe-Co-2V and 316L Stainless Steel, Scripta Materialia, 114005, 2021
- D. F. Susan, A. B. Kustas, R. A. Kellogg, J. D. Carroll, J. R. Michael, I. Karamen, The Effects of Annealing after Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE) on Mechanical and Magnetic Properties of 49Fe-49Co-2V alloy, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, in-press, 2021
- T. F. Babuska, B. A. Krick, D. F. Susan, A. B. Kustas, Comparison of powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition for tailoring mechanical properties of traditionally brittle alloys, Manufacturing Letters: Special Issue on Emerging Concepts in Additive Manufacturing, 30-34, 2021