Christopher Rock
Research Associate Professor
- 919.515.6419
- cdrock@ncsu.edu
- 126E Daniels Hall
Chris Rock joined CAMAL in November 2016 after a long and highly productive run at ATI, a CAMAL member he joined in April 2007 as a Senior R&D Project Engineer. Chris worked in the areas of Nickel product development, new melting technologies, powder metallurgy, additive manufacturing and process modeling. Prior to joining ATI, he was employed at PCC Special Metals in West Virginia as a melt engineer and R&D process engineer.
Education
Materials Science and Engineering
The University of Kentucky
Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
The University of Kentucky
Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
The University of Kentucky
Research Description
His professional interests include new alloy development for various markets using additive manufacturing, process modeling & development and new sensor technologies for process monitoring.
Publications
- Characteristics and Processing of Hydrogen-Treated Copper Powders for EB-PBF Additive Manufacturing
- Ledford, C., Rock, C., Carriere, P., Frigola, P., Gamzina, D., & Horn, T. (2019), APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, 9(19). https://doi.org/10.3390/app9193993
- Processing of Alnico Magnets by Additive Manufacturing
- White, E., Rinko, E., Prost, T., Horn, T., Ledford, C., Rock, C., & Anderson, I. (2019), APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, 9(22). https://doi.org/10.3390/app9224843
- Additive manufacturing of an iron-based bulk metallic glass larger than the critical casting thickness
- Mahbooba, Z., Thorsson, L., Unosson, M., Skoglund, P., West, H., Horn, T., … Harrysson, O. (2018), Applied Materials Today, 11, 264–269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2018.02.011