Kelly Nygren

Kelly Nygren
Staff Scientist - SMB
607-255-7163
k.nygren@cornell.edu

Education / Experience:

2019 - Present:Staff Scientist, CHESS, Cornell University
2017-2019:Postdoc, CHESS, Cornell University
2017: Postdoc, University of Wisconsin Madison
2011 - 2016:  PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2008 - 2011:  

BS in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Minors: Physics, Chemistry

Research Interests:

  • Mechanical Properties and Performance of Metals and Alloys, Defect/Defect Evolution, Fatigue and Fatigue Crack Growth, Plasticity
  • Conventional Steels and Alloys, High Performance Alloys, Alloys in Extreme Environments (Hydrogen Embrittlement, Carburization, Oxidation, Irradiation)
  • Multimodal Characterization (i.e. Combining Electron Microscopy, X-ray Diffraction/Imaging, and Conventional Metallography)

Selected Publications:

  • K. E. Nygren, K. M. Bertsch, S. Wang, H. Bei, A. Nagao, and I. M. Robertson, “Hydrogen embrittlement in compositionally complex FeNiCoCrMn fcc solid solution alloy”, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, vol. 22,no.1, pp. 1–7, 2018.
  • K. E. Nygren, S. Wang, K. M. Bertsch, H. Bei, A. Nagao, and I. M. Robert-son, “Hydrogen embrittlement of the equi-molar FeNiCoCr alloy”, Acta Materialia, vol. 157, pp. 218–227, 2018.
  • S. D. Nair, K. E. Nygren, and D. C. Pagan, “Micromechanical response of crystalline phases in alternate cementitious materials using 3-dimensionalx-ray techniques”, Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1–12, 2019.
  • K. E. Nygren, Z. Yu, F. Rouillard, and A. Couet, “Effect of sample thickness on the oxidation and carburization kinetics of 9Cr-1Mo steel in high and atmospheric pressure CO2 at 550 C”, Corrosion Science, p. 108 292, 2019.
  • D. C. Pagan, J. Kaminsky, W. A. Tayon, K. E. Nygren, A. J. Beaudoin, and A. R. Benson, “Automated grain yield behavior classification”, JOM, vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 3513–3520, 2019.
  • W. A. Tayon, K. E. Nygren, R. E. Crooks, and D. C. Pagan, “In-situ study of planar slip in a commercial aluminum-lithium alloy using high energy x-ray diffraction microscopy”, Acta Materialia, 2019.
  • S. Wang, K. E. Nygren, A. Nagao, P. Sofronis, and I. M. Robertson, “On the failure of surface damage to assess the hydrogen-enhanced deformation ahead of crack tip in a cyclically loaded austenitic stainless steel”, Scripta Materialia, vol. 166, pp. 102–106, 2019
  • I. M. Robertson, P. Sofronis, A. Nagao, M. Martin, S. Wang, D. Gross, and K. E. Nygren, “Hydrogen embrittlement understood”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 2323–2341, 2015.