Meeting New Challenges: Advanced Materials Aid the Army's ...

ADVANCED MATERIALS GOALS FOR THE FUTURE FORCEAdvanced materials will play a crucial role in the Army’s Transformationto meet current and future threats faced by theUnited States. Several key factors will contribute to the developmentof these materials and their implementation in theArmy’s forces. The bottom line for the Future Force is toreduce weight while maintaining or enhancing performance.In order to accomplish this goal, the following materials scienceand engineering research and development priorities needto be addressed:• Performance based strategic focus with the appropriate technicalmetrics based on property Figures of Merit for thespecific applications• Development and exploitation of advanced, hybrid andmultifunctional materials• Novel designs/structures that exploit materials properties• Integration of computational modeling for materials design,processing and performance prediction and appropriate testingfor validationThe following articles present a variety of functionally orientedmaterials programs being carried out in the Army ResearchLaboratory. We believe the technologies developed under theseprograms will have profound impact on the development andcapabilities of the Army’s Future Force while simultaneouslyallowing the improvement of Current Force capabilities.REFERENCES[1] P.J. Schoomaker, The Way Ahead – our Army at War – Relevantand Ready, Army Strategic Communications, Pentagon,Washington, DC[2] P.J. Schoomaker and R.L. Brownlee, 2003 United StatesArmy Transformation Roadmap, US Army, 1 November 2003,http://www.army.mil/2003TransformationRoadmap/[3] J.N. Mait and R.L. Kugler, Alternative Approaches to ArmyTransformation, Defense Horizons, No. 41, July 2004[4] K.C. Becker, C.S. Byington, N.A. Forbes, and G.W. Nickerson,Predicting and Preventing Machine Failures, The IndustrialPhysicist, Vol. 4, No. 4, American Institute of Physics, pp.20-23, December 1998[5] M.F. Ashby, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, 2ndEd., Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 1999[6] J.W. McCauley, The Role of Characterization in EmergingHigh Performance Ceramic Materials, ACerS Bull., Vol. 63, No.2, pp. 263-265, 1984[7] J.W. McCauley, Structural and Chemical Characterization ofProcessed Crystalline Ceramic Materials, Characterization ofMaterials in Research, Ceramics and Polymers, J.J. Burke and V.Weiss, eds., Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, pp. 175-209, 1975[8] K. Watari and S.L. Shinde, High Thermal ConductivityMaterials, MRS Bulletin, Vol. 26, pp. 440-441, 2001[9] Materials Science and Engineering for the 1990s, NationalAcademy Press, Washington D.C., 1989Advanced Materials Aid the Army’s TransformationDr. James W. McCauley is the Senior Research Engineer (ST) in Ceramics and an ARL Fellow in the Army ResearchLaboratory. He holds a BS in geology from St. Joseph’s College (Indiana); and a MS in mineralogy and PhD insolid state science, both from Pennsylvania State University. He is a former professor and past Dean at the NewYork State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Prior to joining Alfred, he was employed at the Army MaterialsTechnology Laboratory for 22 years. He is the author or co-author of about 75 open literature publicationsand reports, the editor/co-editor of five books, and holds four patents. He has served on the Army Science Boardand the external review committee for the Materials Science and Technology Division of Los Alamos NationalLaboratory. He is a Fellow, Distinguished Life Member and Past President of the American Ceramic Society.Turning Young Americans on to ScienceDr. Sandra Kay Young is the Deputy Chief of the Materials Applications Branch in ARL-WMRD. Dr. Young has adiverse research portfolio, including work in the areas of organic-inorganic nanocomposite materials, polymer modification,polymer analysis, polymer synthesis, telechelic polymers, organically modified silicates (ORMOSILs),silsesquioxane materials, Nafion ® , ionomers, ion exchange in polymers, structure-property relationships, and membranematerials. She has authored over 40 published papers and technical reports. She is an active member of theAmerican Chemical Society (slated to be local chair in 2006). She holds a BS in Chemistry from DePaul Universityand a PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.Dr. Rose Pesce-Rodriguez is a research chemist in the Ballistic and Weapons Concepts Division of the US ArmyResearch Laboratory. She serves as the leader of the Advanced Energetic Materials Team and is also the DirectorateRepresentative for ARL’s post doctoral research programs. She earned BAs in Chemistry and Russian fromQueens College, City University of New York (CUNY); and her PhD in Polymer Chemistry from the CUNY GraduateSchool. She is very active in educational outreach programs including eCYBERMISSION, “Chemistry in theLibrary,” and “Materials World Modules” programs.14The AMPTIAC Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 4