Lightweight Super Alloy Materials and Manufacturing Science

The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) offers a research opportunity focused on developing low density, high specific strength aluminum alloys for propulsion systems. The research aims to create novel aluminum alloys capable of maintaining strength, dimensional, and microstructural stability at temperatures greater than current materials to enable more reliable and efficient propulsion systems. Areas of research include alloy design and synthesis, microstructural evolution characterization, property to structure correlation, processing effects on microstructure, and material property determination. The candidate will work closely with ARL-CISD engineers and scientists to develop knowledge and technologies relating to aluminum superalloys that will provide operational reliability, efficiency, and flexibility to Army air and ground propulsion systems. The ARL-RAP is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army.