JM Brookins

Jeff M Brookins

R&D Associate Staff Scientist

Jeff is a R&D associate staff scientist in the Deposition Science and Technology group, within the Manufacturing Science Division. His primary research interests are physical metallurgy for structural and functional alloys, and characterization across multiple length scales. He specializes in using mechanical testing, diffraction, and microscopy to explain structure-property-processing relationships within metal alloy systems.

  • Arc-melting
  • Thermomechanical processing
  • Atmospheric and vacuum furnaces
  • Wire-EDM
  • Tensile testing
  • Digital image correlation (DIC)
  • Metallography
  • Optical and electron microscopy
  • X-ray diffraction (XRD)