ALEXANDER PECHENIK, PH.D.
Expert in Glass and Ceramic Fracture,
Safety, Manufacturing, and Strengthening
Glass and Ceramic Fracture and Safety
5107 Coleridge Drive
Fairfax, VA 22032
Phone: (703) 470 - 5559
FAX: (425) 963 - 5333
E-mail: gcexpert@justice.com
Web page: http://firms.findlaw.com/Pechenik
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 1984
Thesis Topic: Ionic Conductivity in Fast Ion Conducting Materials.
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 1980
B.S. Applied Physics, Volgograd Politechnical Institute, Russia,
1977
Certificate, Physics and Mathematics, Moscow Physical Technical
Institute, Russia,
1975
EXPERTISE:
Fracture Analysis and Manufacture of
Ceramics and Glass
 Stress measurements via polarimetry;
 Strengthening of Glass: Chemical and Thermal
tempering;
 Materials Science of Glass and Ceramics: atomic- and
micro-structure / processing / properties relations in
structural and functional ceramics and glass;
 Manufacturing of glass and ceramics: batch
calculation, powder handling, melting, fining,
shaping, annealing and quality control;
 Diffusion, conductivity, phase diagrams, phase
transformations in ceramics
 High-temperature properties of structural and
functional ceramics.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Oct/92 - Present
Program Manager (GS-15)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Arlington, VA
Supervision of the whole Air Force Basic
Research Program on Non-Metallic Structural
Materials. Air Force internal expert on fracture
of ceramics, glass, and brittle materials in
general. Design of the most Fundamental
Research in Fracture Analysis in the U.S. and in
the world. Supervision of about 50 professors
around the Nation, 10 of whom work in the area of
Fracture.
1989 - 1992
1986 - 1989
Research Scientist,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD.
Consolidation of nanosize ceramic powders and
Fracture testing of transparent ceramic materials.
Nanoscale fracture toughness and hardness
measurements.
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials
Science and Engineering, UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA.
Conducted a wide-ranging research program
involving 6 graduate students in the areas of
Ultra-High Temperature materials, Fracture
Testing of Composites, manufacturing of
Composites and Glass, and Fracture Analysis.
Consulted with major U.S. manufacturers, such
as: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics,
Northrop, Westinghouse, Litton, and many others.
Started my career in Forensic Fractography as
Expert Witness.
1984 - 1986
1980 - 1984
Senior Research Engineer
Central Research Department
Dow Chemical Co.
Midland MI.
Responsible for manufacturing and Fracture
Analysis of Glass and Ceramic Materials.
Performed indentation Fracture Testing, 3-and 4point bending, short-bar fracture toughness
testing and studied their dependence on
microstructure of ceramic materials, cermets, and
glasses
Research Assistant
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Evanston, IL.
Conducted research on manufacturing of variety
of glasses and measuring their electronic, optical
and mechanical properties
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Physical Society - Life time member
American Ceramic Society - member
Materials Research Society - member
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:
Laureate, 1st Place and Gold Medal in
in All-USSR Student Research project
Competition.
1977
Best Graduate Research Award
Northwestern,
1983
General Electric Scholarship
1984
Dow Award for Research Excellence
1986
UCLA Teaching Award
1988
Who is Who in American Science
1992
AFOSR Performance Award
1993
1994
Special Merit Government Award
1998
10-year Distinguished Government
Service Award
PUBLICATIONS:
1999
25 papers in referried journals (see Attached)
3 patents
PERSONAL:
Naturalized U.S. citizen (in 1984), born December 20,
1954, Stalingrad, Russia. Married, three children.
Fluent in Russian, some knowledge of Slavic languages,
rudimentary German and Spanish.
DR. ALEXANDER PECHENIK
List of Publications
1. “Effects of Thermal Conductivity of the Constitutive Phases on the Wear
Resistance of WC/Co cermets”, A. Pechenik, Talantov, Proceedings of
the Volgograd Polytechnical Institute, (1977)
2. “Superdefects in Na “-alumina: Computer Simulation of Ionic
Conductivity and Conduction Mechanisms”, A. Pechenik,
D.H.Whitmore, and M.A. Ratner, Solid State Ionics, 9&10, pp.287-294,
(1983).
3. “Study of Mechanisms of Ionic Transport in Crystalline and Glassy Solid
Electrolytes”, A. Pechenik, Ph. D. Thesis, Northwestern University,
(1984).
4. “Divalent and Mixed Divalent-Monovalent Conduction in “-alumina: a
Monte Carlo Study”, A. Pechenik, D.H. Whitmore, M.A. Ratner, Journal
of Solid State Chemistry, v.58, pp.103-113, (1985).
5. “Conductivity and Ordering on the Planar Honeycomb Lattice: a Monte
Carlo Study of Transport and Order Parameters in “-aluminas”,
A. Pechenik, D.H. Whitmore, M.A. Ratner, Journal of Chemical
Physics, vol.84, No5, pp2827-2836, (1985).
6. “Ionic Conductivity in Glasses: a Monte Carlo Study of Orderd and
Disorderd One-dimensional Models”, A. Pechenik, S.Susman,
D.H.Whitmore, and M.A.Ratner, Solid State Ionics, 18&19, pp.403-409,
(1986).
7. “Monte Carlo Simulation of Frequency-Dependent Conductivity for
Interacting Charge Carriers on the 2-dimensional Honeycomb Lattice”,
A.Pechenik, D.H.Whitmore, and M.A. Ratner, Solid State Ionics,
18&19, pp. 287-294, (1986).
8. “Determination of the Conditions Necessary for Preparation of
Homogeneous Soda-Silicate Glasses”, A. Pechenik, Dow Chemical
R&D Report No. NEI-695, (1985).
9. “Differential Thermal Analysis of Glasses”, A. Pechenik, Dow Chemical
R&D Report No. NEI-684, (1985).
10.“Study of Ionic Conductivity, Raman and IR Vibrational Spectra and Xray Diffraction Pattern of LiAlSiO4 Glass”, A. Pechenik, S.Susman,
D.H.Whitmore, and M.A.Ratner, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids,
v.101, pp.54-64, (1988).
11. “Rapid Omnidirectional Compaction of Ceramic-Metal Composites”,
A.Pyzik and A. Pechenik, Ceram. Eng. Sci. Proc., 9[7-8], pp.965-974,
(1988).
12. “Properties of Rapidly Omnidirectionally Compacted WC/Co Alloys in
relation to W-C-Co Phase Diagram”, A.Pechenik and M.S. Shabrang,
Dow Chemical R&D Report, No. NEI-680 (1988).
13. “Measurements of Hardness and Fracture Toughness of ROCed
WC/Co Alloys using Palmqvist method”, A. Pechenik, Dow Chemical
R&D Report, No. NEI-750, (1988).
14. "Effects of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Plastic Deformation of
Fully Dense Polycrystalline Y1Ba2Cu3O7-x Superconductor”, G. Bussod,
A. Pechenik, C.T.Chu, and B.Dunn, Journal of the American Ceramic
Society, 72[1], pp.137-139 (1989).
15. "Preferred Orientation in Experimentally Deformed Y1Ba2Cu3O7-x” H.R.
Wenk, J. Pannetier, G. Bussod, and A. Pechenik, Journal of Applied
Physiscs,65(10), pp.4070-4073 (1989).
16. “Rapid Omnidirectional Compaction of Yttria-Stabilized Tetragonal
Zirconia”, A. Pechenik, A. Pyzik, and D.R.Beaman, Mater. Research.
Soc. Symp. Proc., v155, pp.283-91 (1989).
17. “Rapid Hot-Pressing of Ultrafine PSZ Powders”, M.D. Matthews and
A.Pechenik, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 74[7], pp.154753, (1991)
18. “Fabrication of Transparent Ceramics from Nanosize Particles”,
A. Pechenik, G.Piermarini, and S.C. Danforth, Journal of the American
Ceramic Society, 75[12], pp.3283-3288 (1992)
19. “Fabrication of Transparent Ceramics from Clusters”, A.Pechenik, G.
Piermarini, DOE Conference on Fossil Energy Materials, Oak Ridge,
TN, May (1992).
20. “Theory of Compaction of Nanosize Particles”, A. Pechenik, invited
paper, proceedings of the TMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, California,
March 2-5 (1992).
21. “Cryogenic Compaction of Nanosize Silicon Nitride Powders”, W.
Chen, A. Pechenik, G.J. Piermarini, S. Dapkunas, S.C. Danforth, S.
Malghan, Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Fossil Energy
Materials, ORNL/FMP 93-1, May (1993).
22. “Fabrication of Transparent -alumina Ceramic from Nanosize
Particles”, M. Gallas, B. Hockey, A. Pechenik, and G. Piermarini,
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 77[8], pp.2107-2112 (1994).
23. “Novel Equipment for the Study of the Compaction of Fine Powders”,
W.Chen, A. Pechenik, S.J. Dapkunas, G.J. Piermarini, and S. Malghan,
Journal of the American Ceramic Society 77[4], pp.1005-1010, (1994).
24. “Low-Temperature Densification of Silicon Nitrate Nanoglasses”,
A. Pechenik, G. Piermarini, and S. Danforth, Journal of Nano.
STRUCTURED MATERIALS, vol.2, pp.479-486 (1993)
25. “U.S. Air Force Basic Research on Carbon/Carbon Composites”, W.F.
Jones, A. Pechenik, and T.E. Erstfeld, Proceedings of the 1st FranceUSA Carbon/Carbon Conference, Arcachon, France, July (1993).
Patents:
1. US 4,943,320: Vapor phase redistribution in multicomponent systems
2. US 4,961,778: Densification of ceramic metal-composites
3. US 5,147,446: Method for fabrication of dense compacts from nanosized particles using high pressures and cryogenic
temperatures.