Allen Roach Email & Phone Number

Idaho Falls, ID, US

Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States

• Department consists of 30+ technical staff and Post Docs conducting research and managing programs and to maintain US competitiveness in nuclear materials. Focus areas of the department are wide ranging and include.
• Served on Planning Committee, co-delivered kickoff presentation, and participated as a panel member for National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine-appointed ad hoc workshop in March 2024 titled “Statistical.
• Served on External Advisory Board for Sandia National Labs Grand Challenge Laboratory Directed R&D project titled Beyond Fingerprinting.
• Developed multi-year external projects and new funded scope with industry or other government agencies in the areas of advanced materials and manufacturing.
• Served on three Dissertation Committees for UT Austin Mechanical Engineering PhD candidates and an NC State Nuclear Engineering PhD candidate.
• Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Energy Research, Nuclear Energy special edition titled Advancements in Nuclear and Irradiation Experiments.

Idaho Falls, Idaho

• Director of the Nuclear Materials Discovery & Qualification Initiative (NMDQi). Launched in 2020, the program addresses the need for development of new nuclear materials on shorter timelines. As a national effort.
• Group Leader for Reactor Structural Materials. The group comprises a collection of researchers and postdocs focused on structural materials testing and development.
• TMS2021 Session Chair for Accelerated Discovery and Qualification of Nuclear Materials for Energy Applications: Challenges and Recent Progresses and in Nuclear Fuels and Materials Development and TMS2021 Invited Talk.
• INL Researcher for 2020 CAES Summer Visiting Faculty program. In collaboration with University of Wyoming professor Dr Dilpuneet Aidhy, developed a proposal titled “Accelerate development of complex alloys for extreme.
• Keynote speaker for the INL-sponsored international workshop titled “Accelerated Irradiations for Reactor Structural Materials,” held September 14-18, 2020.
• Support the development of the INL Advanced Design and Manufacturing Initiative Strategic Plan and the NS&T Advanced Manufacturing Strategic Plan.

Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States

One of the five INL Science & Technology mission initiatives. Under this initiative, the focus is to shift the materials development paradigm from the traditional design-build-test approach to digital design and manufacturing.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Department mission is conducting research on transport phenomena (mass, momentum, energy) for processes that span multiple length and time scales (nano -> meso -> macroscale). This research is applied to complex fluids, energetic material response, and the transport of and within disordered, heterogeneous materials. Leading the development and execution of.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Advanced & Exploratory Systems: Department mission is to evolve an effective engineering development infrastructure, pioneering system architectures, and maturing critical technologies and staff for future needs. Principle Investigator for the FY16-18 Grand Challenge Laboratory Directed R&D project titled “Born Qualified”. Principle Investigator for the.

• The mission of the Applied Science and Technology Maturation Department is to conduct focused research towards discovery, integration, and protection of the scientific knowledge behind the design, production, and.
• Principle Investigator for FY16-18 Grand Challenge Laboratory Directed R&D project “Born Qualified” which is a $4+M/year project aimed at utilizing additive manufacturing to change the engineering design &.
• Speaker at Fall 2016 Meeting for National Academy of Sciences Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Focus Session on Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace
• Principle Investigator for FY15-17 Laboratory Directed R&D project “Cognitive Data Science for Predictive Pattern Analysis”
• Led the execution of modeling and simulation tools in support of problem solving efforts that resulted in cost avoidance of multi-millions of dollars versus producing assets for physical testing
• Senior staff utilized as leader and resource for the design and production problem solving efforts

• The Nanoscale and Reactive Processes Department conducts a broad range of technical activities related to reaction mechanisms, mass transfer, and fluid mechanics. Our work is focused on the research, development and.
• Technical liaison with component design and production to assure the technical progress and programmatic integration for the multiple technical efforts ongoing between design and R&D
• Project Lead for Glass-to-Metal seal project to explore adhesion physics and execution of a revised and renewed glass-to-metal seals focus area
• Team Member supporting the code validation efforts for a 3D massively parallel electrostatic low temperature plasma simulation tool by evaluating more computationally efficient approaches to solving the fields in a.
• Served on multiple Peer Review teams to provide oversight, and technical support for component design, production, and problem solving efforts in thermal, structural, fluid, plasma physics, and electric field analysis

The Materials Aging and Surveillance department provides leadership for the Enhanced Surveillance sub-program of the NNSA Engineering Campaign. The primary program objective is to develop the knowledge and capabilities needed to detect, assess and predict age-related changes in the enduring stockpile. Investments are made in the areas of component and.

• Department consists of PhD technical staff, Post-Doctoral staff, and student interns. Mission is to develop experimentally validated, multi-scale materials models for implementation into numerical simulations to.
• Program manager for multiple DOE/NNSA Science Campaigns: Advanced Simulation & Computing, Dynamic Materials Properties, Readiness in Technical Base & Facilities, and Advanced Certification Program. Sum total budget of.
• Laboratory Directed R&D Investment Area Team for projects in Enabling Predictive Simulation
• Initial Program Manager for Material Science Predicting Performance Margins (PPM) program:Connecting nano- and microscale variability to uncertainty in structural metals
• External program development with other government agencies (NSF, BES, AFCI), Universities,Industrial Partners, and Consortiums to build effective relationships inside and outside of Sandia

Note: Concurrent with Computational Materials Science & Engineering Manager PositionDepartment consists of PhD technical staff, Post-Doctoral staff, technologists, and represented employees focused on research & applied activities. Mission of department is to provide a broad range of processing options for many types and compositions of prototype ceramic.

Note: Concurrent with Computational Materials Science & Engineering Manager PositionMaterial Synthesis & Processing Group manages the materials science and technology research portfolio of the Materials Science and Engineering Center. Group consists of 3 departments: Computational Materials Science & Engineering, Ceramic Processing and Inorganic Materials.

• Responsibilities included:
• Application and development of a multi-dimensional, multi-physics, finite element codes that excel in the analyses of complex manufacturing processes, particularly those with free or moving interfaces
• Project Lead for successful multi-year program to advance the understanding of joining processes (laser welding, brazing, and soldering) for manufacturing of critical components.
• Developed novel capabilities to simulate hysteretic, partially saturated, deformable porous media.
• Program Manager of the Advanced Design and Production Technologies Program which supported Sandia’s production mission assignment. Program averaged over $6M/year in funding.
• Project Lead for next generation design of components. Project achieved improved performance while reducing costs and cycle-times through innovation and new technologies.

• Project Lead for modeling & simulation efforts to develop new process technologies and expand performance of fiber glass manufacturing. Simulations encompassed large scale molten glass flows; forming and solidification.
• Technical Lead & champion of corporate program to leverage resources external to PPG to expand basic understanding of fiber glass manufacture. Experimental and theoretical projects included over $1M in funding to: MIT.
• Project Lead for team of technical staff, technicians, and graduate students in R&D projects for process improvement and technology development.