| Major Professional Experience |
Research Metallurgist, Savannah River Laboratory, 1962-1962, Professor Georgia Institute of Technology 1964-1982, Oglesby Professor, University of Virginia 1983-, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia 1984-1994, University Professor 1994-present
Light metals and alloys, aluminum alloys, titanium alloys & aerospace materials. Development of alloy chemistry, processing, microstructure development and property relationships.
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Metal Award of the Nonferrous Division of the Wire Association, 1972
ASM International Alpha Sigma Mu Lecture, 1988 & 1997
Fellow, ASM International 1993
Fellow of the Materials Society of AIME, 2002
National Academy of Engineering, elected 1998
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A.W. Zhu, B.M. Gable, G.J. Shiflet and E.A. Starke, Jr., “The Intelligent Design of Aluminum Alloys,” (Invited) Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol. 4, No. 11 pp. 839-846 (2002).
B.M. Gable, A.A. Csontos and E.A Starke, Jr., “A Quench Sensitivity Study of the Novel All-Li-Cu-X Alloy AF/C458” J. of Light Metals, Vol. 2, No. 2 pp. 65-76 (2002).
N. Unlu, B.M. Gable, G.J. Shiflet and E.A. Starke, Jr., “The Effect of Cold Work on the Precipitation of W and q’ in a Ternary Al-Cu-Mg Alloy,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 31A, No. 12, pp. 2757-2769 (2003).
B.M. Gable, G.J. Shiflet and E.A. Starke, Jr., “The Effect of Si Addition on the Precipitation of W in Al-Cu-Mg-(Ag) Alloys,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 149-153 (2003).
James C. Williams and Edgar A. Starke, Jr., “Progress in Structural Materials for Aerospace Systems,” (invited) Acta Materialia, Vol. 51, pp. 5775-5799 (2003).
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