Rainer Hebert

Rainer Hebert
Professor

Director of Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center
Associate Director of the Institute of Materials Science (IMS)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003)

Department of Materials Science & Engineering
25 King Hill Road, Unit 3136
Storrs, CT 06269-3136
Office: MZ-107
Phone: (860) 486-3155
Email: rainer.hebert@uconn.edu


Current Research

  • Additive manufacturing: alloy development
  • Additive manufacturing: process capabilities
  • Microstructure formation during rapid surface laser glazing
  • Powder characteristics and effects on additive manufacturing

Awards & Honors

2022 CT Academy of Science and Engineering
2022 Fellow, ASM International
2010-2011 Materials Science and Engineering Program Teaching Award

Recent Publications

Cietek, D., Hebert, R.J. “Ag-Cu solid-liquid interface velocity and growth morphology dependence on material data variations under rapid solidification conditions”, submitted to Phil. Mag. Lett.

Sanchez-Poncela, M., Jin, Q., Hebert, R., Aindow, M., Amigó-Borrás, V., Rementeria, R. “Computational design of grain-refined isotropic triplex steels for laser-powder bed fusion”, submitted to Acta Mater.

Sanchez-Poncela, M., Jin, Q., Hebert, R., Aindow, M., Amigó-Borrás, V., Rementeria, R. (2024) “Triplex steel powder design to avoid hot cracking in laser-powder bed fusion using computational thermodynamics”, Addit. Manuf., vol. 86, p.104196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2024.104196

Fazzino, M., Habiba, U., Kuna, L., Nakhmanson, S., Hebert, R.J. (2024) “Calibration of particle interactions for discrete element modeling of powder flow”, Comput. Part. Mech., https://doi.org/10.1007/s40571-024-00739-6

Habiba, U., Hebert, R.J. (2023) “Powder Spreading Mechanism in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing: Experiments and Computational Approach Using Discrete Element Method”, Materials, vol. 16(7), p. 2824, https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16072824

Habiba, U., Hebert, R.J. (2023) “Powder Bed Thermal Diffusivity Using Laser Flash Three Layer Analysis”, Materials, vol. 16(19), p. 6493, https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16196494

Li, M.X., Rommel, S., Leonard, H.R., Hung, C., Watson, T.J., Benson, C.L., Hebert, R.J., Aindow, M. (2023) “Thermal stability of laser track microstructures in an Al-Cr-Co-Mn-Zr I-phase alloy”, Mater. Charact., vol. 203, 113123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2023.113123

Ravi Narayan, L., Hebert, R.J. (2022) “Rapid solidification of hypoeutectic aluminum copper alloys using fast-scanning calorimetry”, J. Alloys Cmpd., vol. 925, p. 16682, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.166829

Ravi Narayan, L., Hebert, R.J. (2022) “Rheology of partially solidified hypoeutectic aluminum copper alloys”, SN Appl. Sci. vol. 4, p. 186, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05070-4

Li, M.X., Rommel, S., Leonard, H.R., Hung, C., Watson, T.J., Policandriotis, T., Hebert, R.J., Aindow, M. (2022) “Use of laser glazing to evaluate an Al-Cr-Co-Mn-Zr alloy containing icosahedral quasicrystalline dispersoids as a candidate material for additive manufacturing”, Addit. Manuf., vol. 59, p. 103114, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.103114

Fox, C., Tilton, C., Rousseau, C.-E., Shukla, A., Sheeley, C., Hebert, R.J., (2022) “Dynamic Constitutive Behavior of Additively Manufactured 17-4PH Stainless Steel”, J. Dyn. Behav. Mater., vol. 8(2), pp. 242-252, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40870-022-00328-9