Adam L. Pilchak

Adam L. Pilchak is currently a Senior Research Materials Engineer and a Research Lead for the Metallic Materials and Processes Team with the Metals Branch, Structural Materials Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA. He has 28 first author articles in peer reviewed journals focusing on processing-microstructure-property relationships in titanium alloys and is co-author of another 18 papers. He has given over 30 presentations at national and international conferences. He is internationally recognized for his work on the dwell fatigue response of titanium alloys, where he is making contributions on all aspects of the problem, including developing new processing routes to mitigate the problem in future systems, microstructure quantification using destructive and nondestructive inspection protocols, failure analysis, fleet risk mitigation, and probabilistic fatigue lifetime prediction. He also leads a Team of 25 government engineers and contractors, who maintain technical depth in key critical Air Force technologies to respond to current and future needs, such as single crystal blade casting and additive manufacturing.