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Citations
21608
World Ranking
4197
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1124

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to research, development, implementation, and teaching of science-based design of materials.

Overview

Gregory B. Olson is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research spans several subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties, Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies, Manufacturing Process and Optimization, Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties, Shape Memory Alloy Transformations, and High Temperature Alloys and Creep.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include Christopher A. Schuh, Edward L. Pang, Florian Hengsbach, Julius Bürger, and Anatolii Andreiev.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Gregory B. Olson are:

  • Low-hysteresis shape-memory ceramics designed by multimode modelling, 2022, Nature
  • Communication-Dissolution and Passivation of a Ni-Cr-Fe-Ru-Mo-W High Entropy Alloy by Elementally Resolved Electrochemistry, 2020, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • The mechanism of thermal transformation hysteresis in ZrO2-CeO2 shape-memory ceramics, 2021, Acta Materialia
  • Genomic materials design: CALculation of PHAse Dynamics, 2023, Calphad
  • Role of grain constraint on the martensitic transformation in ceria-doped zirconia, 2020, Journal of the American Ceramic Society

The scientist publishes frequently in venues such as Acta Materialia, Calphad, SSRN Electronic Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and arXiv (Cornell University).

Gregory B. Olson has received recognitions such as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. They were also elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for contributions to the research, development, implementation, and teaching of science-based design of materials.

Best Publications

  • Kinetics of strain-induced martensitic nucleation

    G. B. Olson;Morris Cohen

  • A general mechanism of martensitic nucleation: Part I. General concepts and the FCC → HCP transformation

    G. B. Olson;Morris Cohen

  • Computational Design of Hierarchically Structured Materials

    Gregory B Olson

  • A MECHANISM FOR THE STRAIN-INDUCED NUCLEATION OF MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS*

    G.B. Olson;Morris Cohen

  • A constitutive model for transformation plasticity accompanying strain-induced martensitic transformations in metastable austenitic steels

    R.G. Stringfellow;D.M. Parks;G.B. Olson

  • Strain Hardening of Hadfield Manganese Steel

    P. H. Adler;G. B. Olson;W. S. Owen

  • Designing a New Material World

    Gregory B. Olson

  • First Principles Determination of the Effects of Phosphorus and Boron on Iron Grain Boundary Cohesion

    Ruqian Wu;Arthur J Freeman;G. B. Olson

  • A general mechanism of martensitic nucleation: Part II. FCC → BCC and other martensitic transformations

    G. B. Olson;Morris Cohen

  • Kinetics of F.C.C. → B.C.C. heterogeneous martensitic nucleation—I. The critical driving force for athermal nucleation

    G. Ghosh;G.B. Olson

  • Characterization of nano-scale oxides in austenitic stainless steel processed by powder bed fusion

    Fuyao Yan;Wei Xiong;Eric Faierson;Gregory B. Olson

  • The isotropic shear modulus of multicomponent Fe-base solid solutions

    G. Ghosh;G.B. Olson

  • Thermoelastic behavior in martensitic transformations

    G.B. Olson;Morris Cohen

  • Stress-assisted isothermal martensitic transformation: Application to TRIP steels

    G. B. Olson;Morris Cohen

  • Transformation behavior of TRIP steels

    Gregory B Olson;Morris Azrin

  • Interphase-boundary dislocations and the concept of coherency

    G.B. Olson;Morris Cohen

  • A general mechanism of martensitic nucleation: Part III. Kinetics of martensitic nucleation

    G. B. Olson;Morris Cohen

  • Influence of alloying additions on grain boundary cohesion of transition metals: First-principles determination and its phenomenological extension

    W. T. Geng;Arthur J Freeman;G. B. Olson

  • Ostwald ripening in multicomponent alloys

    A. Umantsev;Gregory B Olson

  • A Perspective on Martensitic Nucleation

    G. B. Olson;M. Cohen

  • Concurrent design of hierarchical materials and structures

    D. L. McDowell;Gregory B Olson

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur J Freeman
Arthur J Freeman Northwestern University
Gautam Ghosh
Gautam Ghosh Northwestern University
Wing Kam Liu
Wing Kam Liu Northwestern University
Brian Moran
Brian Moran King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mica Grujicic
Mica Grujicic Clemson University
Peter W. Voorhees
Peter W. Voorhees Northwestern University
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
John H. Perepezko
John H. Perepezko University of Wisconsin–Madison

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