Carl Koch
Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor
- Email: cckoch@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building I 3006
- Website: https://www.mse.ncsu.edu/carlkoch/
Carl Koch was a research group leader with the Metals and Ceramics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory before he joined the NCSU faculty in 1983.
Koch’s research in recent years has focused on the synthesis, characterization and properties of metastable materials. Metastable materials with unique structures or microstructures that we have studied include metallic glasses, intermetallic compounds, nanocrystalline materials and polymer alloys. The chief nonequilibrium processing methods used to prepare metastable materials are rapid solidification from the liquid phase (at about 106 oC/s) and mechanical attrition of powders in high-energy ball mills. Koch was the first researcher to demonstrate that amorphous alloys metallic glasses could be made by ball milling certain elemental powder mixtures by the technique known as mechanical alloying. Recent research has turned to nanocrystalline materials prepared by either mechanical attrition or controlled crystallization of amorphous precursors formed by rapid solidification. His group’s interest in these materials is due to their special mechanical and soft magnetic properties.
Publications
- Mechanical properties and microstructure of the heterogeneous DZ2 axle steel under high-strain-rate compression at ambient temperature
- Liu, Y., Liu, X., Feng, C., Koch, C. C., & Jing, L. (2023), JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-JMR&T, 26, 8456–8471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2023.09.192
- Microstructural evolution in shear-punch tests: A comparative study of pure Cu and Cu-Cr alloy
- Escobar, J., Silverstein, J., Ishrak, F., Li, L., Soulami, A., Li, S., … Gwalani, B. (2023), MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING, 886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.145715
- Cryogenic reciprocating torsion induced nanoscale precipitation in aluminum wire with exceptional strength and electrical conductivity
- Cai, S. L., Li, D. Q., Liu, S. C., Si, J. J., Gu, J., Zhou, L. X., … Koch, C. C. (2022), MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING, 860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2022.144276
- Multiple gradient structures driving higher tensile strength and good capacity to absorb e d energy in aluminum wire processed by cryogenic pre-torsion
- Cai, S. L., Li, D. Q., Liu, S. C., Cheng, Y. F., Li, J. H., & Koch, C. C. (2022), SCRIPTA MATERIALIA, 210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.114436
- Synergistic effect of Nb and Zr additions on the structure-property relationships of nanocrystalline Cu processed by mechanical alloying and hot pressing
- Roy, D., Chakraborty, S., Gupta, A. K., BasuMallick, A., Scattergood, R. O., & Koch, C. C. (2021), JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS, 854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.157174
- Thermal stability and mechanical properties of Fe-Cr-Zr alloys developed by mechanical alloying followed by spark plasma sintering
- Muthaiah, V. M. S., Koch, C. C., & Mula, S. (2021), JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS, 856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.158266
- Dual gradient microstructure to simultaneously improve strength and electrical conductivity of aluminum wire
- Cai, S. L., Wan, J. C., Hao, Y. J., & Koch, C. C. (2020), MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING, 783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.139308
- Grain refinement induced friction reduction and anti-wear performances of electrodeposited graphene/Ni composites with low content reduced graphene oxide
- Liu, Y., Zheng, F., Wu, Y., Koch, C. C., Han, P., Zhang, C., … Zhang, Y. (2020), JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS, 826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.154080
- Synergistic effect of Nb and Zr addition in thermal stabilization of nano-crystalline Cu synthesized by ball milling
- Roy, D., Chakraborty, S., Gupta, A. K., Mallick, A. B., & Koch, C. C. (2020), MATERIALS LETTERS, 271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.127780
- Tuning heterostructures with powder metallurgy for high synergistic strengthening and hetero-deformation induced hardening
- Li, Z. K., Fang, X. T., Wang, Y. F., Jiang, P., Wang, J. J., Liu, C. M., … Koch, C. C. (2020), MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING, 777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.139074