PRECIPIO PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS (Thank you for your patience as we load new titles)
Engineering Operations, Six Sigma, and Quality
· A. N. Winter, “Excellence in Operations for the National Ignition Facility Project,” presented to business unit team and supplied to Program Directors to support a DOE Project Review, January 2005.
· A. N. Winter, “Engineering Operations Management Plan,” presented and submitted to Program Directors to satisfy a DOE earned value milestone, April 2004.
· A. N. Winter, “Wavefront Verification Cost Reduction for Amplifier Slab Cassettes through Value Engineering and Design of Experiments,” Six Sigma Black Belt Project, presented to the NIF Control Board in support of eliminating 75% of Amp Slab Cassette testing translating into over $500,000 in savings, October 2003.
· A. N. Winter, “Line Replaceable Unit Operations and Quality Plan,” presented and submitted to Program Directors as an outline of the new LRU Engineering and Production Strategy, March 2003.
· A. N. Winter and Y. E. Araktingi, “Productivity Improvement of LiNbO3 Optical Component Manufacturing,” Six Sigma Black Belt Project Report, Published 2001, Thermo Electron Spectra Physics Internal Publication.
· Several presentations on Six Sigma Spectra Physics senior management, engineers, and staff including: Six Sigma Overview, Six Sigma Deployment Strategy, Six Sigma Tools (RDMAIC), FMEA, DOE, and Statistical Training, 2000-2001.
Materials Science and Engineering
· A. N. Winter, B. A. Corff, I. E. Reimanis, and B. H. Rabin, "Synthesis of Graded Ni-Al2O3 Composites with a Thermal Behavior Matching Process," Journal of the American Ceramic Society, v. 83, n. 9, pp. 2147-2154, 2000.
· A. N. Winter, “Mechanical Response of Single Crystal LiNbO3 During Creep Feed Grinding,” presented at PAC RIM IV – An International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses, Optical Materials for Photonic Technologies Session, November 4-8, 2001, Wailea, Maui, HI.
Book Section
I. E. Reimanis, J. Chapa, A. N. Winter, W. Windes, and E. Steffler, Functionally Graded Materials in the 21st Century: A Workshop on Trends and Forecasts, edited by K. Ichikawa, section 4.4.1, Fracture and Deformation, p.130-135, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston MA, 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7236-0(2000).
Conference Proceedings
· Reimanis, I. E., Chapa-Cabrera, J., Steffler, E. D., Windes, W. and Winter, A. N., “Fracture in Functionally Graded Composites: the Importance of Residual Stress”, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics: 33rd Volume STP1417, W. G. Reuter and R. S. Piascik, Eds., American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, to be published in 2002.
· A. N. Winter and E. D. Steffler, and I. E. Reimanis, "Deformation and Fracture of Graded Ni-Al2O3 Composites Captured with Phase-Shifted Moiré Interferometry," Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, v. 21, n. 3, pp. 691, 2000.
· W. E. Windes, E. D. Steffler, and A. N. Winter, “Influence of Interfaces on Deformation of a Functionally Graded Material,” proceedings of the 2nd International Conference; Composites at Lake Louise ’99: Dialogues at Lake Louise.
· E. D. Steffler and A. N. Winter, "Interferometric Experimental Results Compared to FEA for a Functionally Graded Material," proceedings of the Society of Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference: 1999 SEM Annual Conference, June 1999.
· U. Leushake, A. N. Winter, and B. A. Corff, “General Aspects of FGM Fabrication by Powder Stacking,” Materials Science Forum, v. 308, n. 311, pp. 13-19, 1999.
· A. N. Winter, B. A. Corff, I. E. Reimanis, and B. H. Rabin, "Processing, Deformation, and Fracture of Ni-Al2O3 Composites With and Without Graded Microstructures," Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, v. 19, n. 4, pp. 379-386, 1998.
Conference Presentations and Technical Seminars
2002:
· A. N. Winter, “Optical Assembly Quality Processes,” presented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Ignitnion Facility Directorate, November 2002.
2001:
· A. N. Winter, “Mechanical Response of Single Crystal LiNbO3 During Creep Feed Grinding,” presented at PAC RIM IV – An International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses, Optical Materials for Photonic Technologies Session, November 4-8, 2001, Wailea, Maui, HI.
2000:
· *A. N. Winter, E. D. Steffler, and I. E. Reimanis, "Deformation and Fracture of Graded Ni-Al2O3 Composites Captured with Phase-Shifted Moiré Interferometry," presented at the 24th Annual Cocoa Beach Conference and Exposition: Mechanical Behavior and Design of Engineering Ceramics and Composites symposium, Residual and Internal Stresses and Stress Concentrators session, held January 23-29, 2000, Cocoa Beach, FL
*Awarded Best Paper, Professional Category.
· I. E. Reimanis, J. Chapa, A. N. Winter, W. Windes, and E. Steffler (invited), “Fracture and Deformation in Ductile/Brittle Joints with Graded Structures,” presented at Functionally Graded Materials in the 21st Century: A Workshop on Trends and Forecasts, held March 26-28, 2000 in Tsukuba, Japan.
1999:
· A. N. Winter, W. E. Windes, and E. D. Steffler, "Fabrication of Large Functionally Graded Materials," presented at the American Ceramic Society 101st Annual Meeting: Basic Science Division (4) – Joining Dissimilar Materials session, held April 25-29, 1999 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
· A. N. Winter, W. E. Windes, E. D. Steffler, and I. E. Reimanis (invited), "Residual Stress Measurement of a Graded Ni-Al2O3 Joint," presented at the American Ceramic Society 101st Annual Meeting: Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses, and Composites symposium, held April 25-29, 1999 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
· E. D. Steffler and A. N. Winter, "Interferometric Experimental Results Compared to FEA for a Functionally Graded Material," presented at the Society of Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference on Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Mechanics: Design, Analysis, and Testing of Composite Materials session, held June 7-9, 1999, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
· I. E. Reimanis, A. N. Winter, and E. D. Steffler, "Deformation Behavior of a Graded Nickel-Al2O3 Composite Measured with Phase-Shifted Moiré Interferometry," presented at the Gordon Conference: Solid State Studies in Ceramics held August 1-6, 1999 at the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire.
· I. E. Reimanis, A. N. Winter, J. Chapa, W. E. Windes, and E. D. Steffler (invited), “Fracture and Deformation in Ductile/Brittle Joints with Graded Structures,” presented at the American Ceramic Society Pacific Coast Regional Meeting: Multilayered and Graded Composites and Structures symposium, held October 27-29, 1999 in Bellevue, WA.
· A. N. Winter, I. E. Reimanis, and E. D. Steffler, "Deformation Behavior of a Graded Nickel-Al2O3 Composite Measured with Phase-Shifted Moiré Interferometry," presented at the United Engineering Foundation Meeting: Mechanical Properties of Films, Coatings, and Interfacial Materials, held June 27-July 2, 1999 in Il Ciocco, Italy.
· W. E. Windes, E. D. Steffler, and A. N. Winter, “Influence of Interfaces on Deformation of a Functionally Graded Material,” presented at the 2nd International Conference; Composites at Lake Louise ’99: Detection and Design of Internal Stresses in Composites session, held October 31-November 5, 1999 in Lake Louise, Canada.
1998:
· A. N. Winter, B. A. Corff, I. E. Reimanis, and B. H. Rabin, "Processing, Deformation, and Fracture of Ni-Al2O3 Composites With and Without Graded Microstructures," presented at the 22nd Annual Cocoa Beach Conference and Exposition: Advanced Synthesis and Processing symposium, held January 21-25, 1998 in Cocoa Beach, FL.
· U. Leushake, A. N. Winter, B. H. Rabin, and B. A. Corff, "General Aspects of FGM Fabrication by Powder Stacking," presented at the 5th International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials, held October 26-29, 1998 in Dresden, Germany.
· A. N. Winter, R. D. Torres, I. E. Reimanis, and G. W. Mustoe, ”Residual Stresses and the Role of Deformation in Functionally Graded Materials,” presented at the ASME Regional Meeting, November 15, 1998 in Anaheim, CA.
1997:
· A. N. Winter, I. E. Reimanis, and B. H. Rabin, "Fracture Behavior of Graded Ni-Al2O3 Composites," presented at the International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials, Properties I: Crack Growth and Mechanical Properties session of the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, held May 4-7, 1997, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1996:
· B. H. Rabin, H. A. Bruck, A. N. Winter, and I. E. Reimanis, “Fundamental Fracture Studies in Graded Al2O3/Ni Structures,” presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials FGM’96, held October 21-24, 1996 in Tsukuba, Japan.
· A. N. Winter, B. H. Rabin, and I. E. Reimanis, “Fracture and Deformation in Graded Joints,” presented at the Institute of Mechanics and Materials Young Investigators Meeting, held August 20-22, 1997, in Schenectady, NY.
· A. N. Winter, I. E. Reimanis, and B. H. Rabin, “Deformation and Fracture of Nickel/Alumina Composites with and without Graded Microstructures,” presented at the Fall ’97 Materials Research Society Meeting, held December 1-5, 1997 in Boston, MA.