Meet the Consultants: John Tartaglia

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Name: John Tartaglia
Company Name: Element Materials Technology
Location: Wixom, Michigan
Years in Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Metallurgy
  • Failure Analysis & Mechanical Testing
  • Material Engineering
  • Superalloys

 

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Briefly:

Dr. John M. Tartaglia, a Senior Metallurgical Engineer and the Engineering Manager at Element Wixom, has been performing failure analyses and materials characterization for more than 30 years. He holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York. Tartaglia’s doctoral thesis concerned the elevated temperature fatigue behavior of superalloys, and he is an expert in mechanical testing, wrought steels, aluminum, magnesium, fatigue, failure analysis, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and energy dispersive spectroscopy.

 Dr. Tartaglia is a Key Reader for Materials and Metallurgical Transactions, a member of the editorial committee for Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, chapter writer for an ASM Handbook, a member of several ASTM committees, a Fellow of ASM International and an award-winning author for the American Foundry Society. (see more: https://www.element.com/about-element/experts/t/john-tartaglia-phd#)

Publications or Significant Accomplishments

  1. Engineering Manager and Senior Metallurgical Engineer, Element Materials Technology, formerly known as Stork Climax Research Services, a division of Stork Materials Technology (Element: December 2011 to present; Stork Climax: 1994-2011)

  2. Holds patents for:
    • “Wrought Aluminum Eutectic Composites,” U.S. Patent No. 4992110, Issued February 12, 1991
    • “Production of Aluminum-SiC Composite Using Sodium Tetraborate as an Addition Agent,” U.S. Patent No. 4713111, Issued December 15, 1987
  3. Fellow of ASM International, 2009
  4. Member of American Foundry Society, author and co-author of multiple papers and studies, and awarded for Best Paper, Cast Iron Division, American Foundry Society (January 2011).
  5. Awarded the American Foundry Society 2013 Howard F. Taylor Award for his paper examining a strain-life fatigue database for cast irons, which he developed using funding from the AFS and the United States Department of Energy (DoE) (2013)
  6. Member, chairman, and secretary for several committees:
    • Member – TMS Committee
    • Member – MRS Committee
    • Member – ASTM Metallography, Mechanical Testing, & Fatigue Committee
    • Member – Editorial Committee, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
    • Chairman and Secretary – Detroit Section, Metallurgical Society of AIME
  7. Industrial Educator on subjects including, but not limited to:
    • Metallurgical Testing
    • Fatigue & Fracture Toughness
    • Electron Microscopy & Microanalysis
    • Selected Wrought Alloys
  8. Member of the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance Editorial Committee
  9. Co-authored and authored numerous articles, chapters, conference presentations, and white papers in publications such as The Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, ASM International, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, including:
    • “The Effects of Martensite Content on the Mechanical Properties of Quenched and Tempered 0.2%C-Ni-Cr-Mo Steels”
    • “Satisfactory Case Hardened Part Performance Requires Proper Hardness and Microstructural Specifications” with A. H. Griebel (conference paper presented at 25th ASM Heat Treating Society Conference, Indianapolis, IN, September 14-17, 2009)
    • “Monotonic and Cyclic Property Design Data for a 25% Cr Abrasion – Resistant Cast Iron,” with B. T. Hodge and R. B. Gundlach, (conference paper 10-128, AFS Cast Expo 2010, Atlanta, GA, March 22, 2010)
    • “Analysis of Pearlitic Ductile Iron with Enhanced Mechanical Properties,” with Rick Gundlach (presented at Keith Millis Symposium on Ductile Cast Iron, Nashville, TN, October 16, 2013)
    • “The Background, Use and Application of the Cast Iron Strain Life Fatigue Database” (presented at CAST EXPO and Metalcasting Congress, Minneapolis, MN, April 17, 2016)
    • “Effects of Inhibited Acid Cleaning of Steel Fracture Surfaces for Failure Analyses” with M. J Mullen and A. H. Griebel
    • “Fracture Structure Analyses” with M. J. Mullen and A. H. Griebel

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