David Garcia

Current Position 

• Materials Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 

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  Education

• 2016 B.S. – Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech
• 2020 Ph.D. – Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech

Thesis: An investigation of the processing history during Additive Friction Stir Deposition using in-process monitoring techniques

Notable Publications:

“In Situ Investigation into Temperature Evolution and Heat Generation during Additive Friction Stir Deposition: A Comparative Study of Cu and Al-Mg-Si", David Garcia, W. Douglas Hartley, Hunter A. Rauch, R. Joey Griffiths, Rongxuan Wang, Zhenyu J. Kong, Yunhui Zhu, Hang Z. Yu, Additive Manufacturing, 101386 (2020)

"Heterogeneous materials design in additive manufacturing: Model calibration and uncertainty-guided model selection", David Garcia, Ziling Wu, Jee Yun Kim, Hang Z. Yu, Yunhui Zhu, Additive Manufacturing, 27, 61-71 (2019)

"Mesoscale design of heterogeneous material systems in multi-material additive manufacturing"
David Garcia, Mackenzie E. Jones, Yunhui Zhu, and Hang Z. Yu, Journal of Materials Research, (2017)