Kenneth C. Russell

Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and Nuclear Engineering

MetE Metallurgical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1959
PhD Metallurgical Engineering, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1964

Room 13-5050, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA  02139
617-253-3328 (phone) 617-258-8836 (fax)
kenruss@mit.edu

Prof. Russell's research is focused on theoretical and experimental studies of kinetic processes in alloys. Current topics of interest include (1) Nucleation during bulk or surface irradiation, (2) Self organizing systems, (3) Solidification of controlled porosity solids, (4) Phase transformations in solids. 

Selected Publications

"Controlled Porosity Alloys through Solidification Processing: A Modelling Study," Advances in Porous Materials, MRS Symposium Proc. 371 365–370 (1995) (with others).

"Irradiation-Induced Spinodal-Like Decomposition of Fe-35 Ni and Fe-Cr-35 Ni Alloys," in The Invar Effect: A Centennial Symposium, ed. J. Wittenauer, TMS-AIME, Warrendale, PA, 117-135 (1996) (with others).

"Particle Nucleation in Dissipative Systems," MRS Symposium B (1998) (with J.C.F. Rangel).

"Low Expansion Steels," Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering, ed. R. W. Cahn, Elsevier Publishing, Vol. 9, 8843–8845 (2001).

"The Processes of Self-Organization in Ordered Binary Alloys Under Nuclear Irradiation," Metallofiz. Novelishie Teknol. (Ukraine) 21 70–74 (1999) (with others).

Prof. Russell co-authors the "Calamities" column in Design News. The column explores instances "when products fail: true stories from the case files of forensic engineers."

"The Hacks are Back," an exhibition in the Compton Gallery in Building 10, included a piece from Prof. Russell's teaching career.