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R. Bruce Madigan, PhD, PE |
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Education
1994 PhD, Colorado
School of Mines, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
1985 MS, Ohio State
University, Welding Engineering
1983 BS, Ohio
State University, Welding Engineering
1979 Certificate,
Hobart School of Welding Technology
Academic
Experience
2020 - present: Emeritus
Professor, Montana Technological University
2011 - 2018: Department
Head, General Engineering Department, Montana Technological
University
2013 - present: Full
Professor
2005 - 2013: Associate
Professor
2008: Tenured
2003 - 2005 Assistant
Professor
Teaching Coursework:
Practical Welding Lab, Intro to Welding Engineering, Welding Process
Applications, Design of Welded Connections,
Physics of Welding,
Robotic and Automated Welding, Nondestructive Evaluation, Metallurgy
of Welds
Graduate Student Completions- 19 MS students, 4 PhD students
Non-academic
Experience
2022 - present: Gray Beards Engineering, Owner/Senior Advisor
2002 - present: WeldWorks, Consultant in the Welding, Metallurgy, and Manufacturing Industries
1998 - 2002: WeldWare, Inc., Columbus, OH, President and Chief Technical Officer
1989 - 1998: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO, Research Engineer
1985 - 1989: Edison Welding Institute (EWI), Columbus, OH, Research Engineer
1984 summer: Sandia National Lab, Livermore, CA, Co-op Engineering Intern
1983 - 1985: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Research Associate, Welding Engineering Dept.
1983 - 1985: Sensotec, Inc., Columbus, OH, Welding Engineer
1979 - 1980: Klaas Machine and Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, OH, Welder/Fabricator
Professional
Registrations
Professional Engineer, State of Ohio, PE52864, 1989 - Present.
Professional Welding Engineer, International Institute of Welding, 2002-present
Professional Memberships
ASM Welding Handbook, Arc Welding Section Editor, 2008.
Vice Chairman, American Welding Society, Montana Section. 2004-2020
Member, American Welding Society. 1983 - Present.
Professional
Honors and Awards
American Welding Society (AWS) Adams Memorial Membership Award, 2023.
American Welding Society (AWS) Plummer Memorial National Educator Award, 2010.
AWS Howard E. Adkins Memorial Instructor Award, 2006.
United States Patents: 11 granted
Service
Activities
AWS,Vice Chairman, Montana Section. 2004-2018
Principal Reviewer, Welding Journal Technical Paper Peer Review Committee. 1989-2017
Professional Development Activities
Research proposal development and project management
Continuing education activities for maintaining PE license
Professional Expert for welding and joining, metallurgical and manufacturing casework
Subject Matter Expert covering welding and joining processes, process sensing and control,
welding metallurgy, thermal heat treatment, procedure selection, development and application,
materials characterization including microstructure analysis, and processing equipment design
Patents
Systems and Methods for Additive Manufacturing Operations. Vivek R. Dave, Mark J. Cola, R. Bruce Madigan, Alberto M. Castro, Lars Jacquemetton, and Peter Campbell. Patent number: 11674904. June 13, 2023.
Method and System For Monitoring Additive Manufacturing Processes. Vivek R. Dave, R. Bruce
Madigan, Mark J. Cola, and Martin Piltch. Patent Number 11607875. March 21, 2023.
Systems
and
Methods
For Measuring
Radiated Thermal Energy During An Additive Manufacturing Operation.
R. Bruce Madigan, Lars Jacquemetton, Glenn Wikle, Mark J. Cola, Vivek
R. Dave, Darren Beckett, Alberto M. Castro. Patent Number
11390035. July 19, 2022.
Photodetector
Array For Additive Manufacturing Operations. R. Bruce Madigan, Mark
J. Cola, Scott Betts, Darren Beckett, Alberto M. Castro, Lars
Jacquemetton, Martin Piltch. Patent number 11260456.
March
1, 2022.
Method
And System For Monitoring Additive Manufacturing Processes. Vivek R.
Dave, R. Bruce Madigan, Mark J. Cola, Martin S. Piltch. Patent
Number
11135654. October 5, 2021.
Optical
Manufacturing Process Sensing And Status Indication System. Vivek R.
Dave, Mark J. Cola, R. Bruce Madigan, Martin S. Piltch, Alberto
Castro. Patent Number 11073431. July 27, 2021.
Systems
And Methods For Additive Manufacturing Operations. Vivek R. Dave,
Mark J. Cola, R. Bruce Madigan, Alberto Castro, Glenn Wikle, Lars
Jacquemetton, Peter Campbell. Patent number: 10717264. July 21,
2020.
Systems
And Methods For Measuring Radiated Thermal Energy During An Additive
Manufacturing Operation. R. Bruce Madigan, Lars Jacquemetton, Glenn
Wikle, Mark J. Cola, Vivek R. Dave, Darren Beckett, Alberto M.
Castro. Patent Number 10479020. November 19, 2019
Sensing
Arc
Welding Process Characteristics For Welding Process Control. Timothy
P. Quinn,
R.
Bruce Madigan. Patent Number
5756967. May 26, 1998.>
Prevention
of Contact Tube Melting in Arc Welding. Thomas A. Siewert, R. Bruce
Madigan, Timothy P. Quinn. Patent Number 5514851. May 7, 1996.
Sensing
of Gas Metal Arc Welding Process Characteristics for Welding Process
Control. R. Bruce Madigan, Timothy P. Quinn. Patent Number 5349156.
September 20, 1994.
Publications
and Presentations
Process
Mapping Software for Metal Additive Manufacturing - A Gateway to
Closed Loop Melt Pool Quality & Process Control. Liquid
Propulsion Subcommittee, Advance Materials Panel, Joint
Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF). Jackson Center, Huntsville,
Alabama. August 2018.
Digital
Process Control System Software for Metal Additive Manufacturing with
Aerospace Alloys. Mark Cola, Darren Beckett, Lars Jacquemetton,
Scotts Betts, R. Bruce Madigan. 45th Annual Review of Progress in
Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Burlington, Vermont. July
2018.
Effect
of Laser Scan Strategy and Post Processing on High Strain Rate
Deformation Response of Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel.
Brandon McWilliams, Brahmananda Pramanik, Andelle Kudzal, Bruce
Madigan. TMS 2018 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona. March 2018.
Influence
of Build-angle on Charpy Impact Fracture of Laser Powder Bed
3D-printed Stainless Steel and Aluminum Cast Alloy. Brahmananda
Pramanik, Kristofer Kuelper, MD. Salahuddin, Bruce Madigan. TMS 2018
Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona. March 2018.
Optimizing
Processing Parameter in Laser Sintering Process by Molecular Dynamics
Simulation. B.Deng, D. Hobbs, B. Madigan. TMS 2018 Annual Meeting,
Phoenix, Arizona. March 2018.
Processing-Microstructure-Mechanical
Property Correlation In AlSi10Mg Parts Produced Using Selective Laser
Melting., Edward Stugelmayer, Bryce Abstetar, K.V. Sudhakar, Ronda
Coguill, Bruce Madigan. Materials Science and Technology 2017,
Pittsburgh, PA. October 2017.
Effect
of Build Parameters on Microstructure of SS Additive Manufactured
Components, Steven Keckler, P. Rawn, K.V. Sudhakar, B. Madigan.
Materials Science
Technology 2017, Pittsburgh, PA. October 2017.
Additive
Manufacturing of Stainless Steel and Aluminum Alloy: Processing,
Microstructure, and Material Properties. Sudhakar Vadiraja, Bryce
Abstetar, Penn Rawn, Coguill Ronda, Nathan Huft and Bruce Madigan.
Materials Science and Technology Conference 2016. Salt Lake City,
UT. October, 2016.
Effects
of Strain Rate on the Hot Deformation Behavior and Dynamic
Recrystallization in China Low Activation Martensitic Steel.
Yuanyuan Fang, Xizhang Chen, Bruce Madigan Hongyan Cao, and Sergey
Konovalov. Fusion Engineering and Design, Volume 103, pages 21-30,
January, 2016.
Laser
welding dissimilar materials of aluminum to steel: an overview.
Pengfei Wang, Xizhang Chen, Qiuhong Pan, Bruce Madigan, Jiangqi Long.
The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
Volume 87, Issue 9-12, pp 3081-3090. December 2016.
In
Process Quality assurance: a Process Monitoring and Inspection Tool
for Additive Manufacturing. Vivek R. Dave, Mark J. Cola and R. Bruce
Madigan. 22nd Meeting
of the International Society of Air-Breathing Engines (ISABE).
Phoenix, AZ. October, 2015.
Monte
Carlo Simulation and Experimental Measurements of Grain Growth in the
Heat Affected Zone of 304 Stainless Steel During Multipass Welding.
Xizhang Chen, Xing Chen, Huili Xu, Bruce Madigan, and Yuming Huang.
International Journal of Advanced
Manufacturing Technology, Volume 80, Issue 5, pp1197-1211, September,
2015.>
Investigation
of microstructures and residual stresses in laser peened Incoloy 800H
weldments . Xizhang Chen, Jingjun Wang, Yuanyuan Fang, Bruce Madigan,
Guifang Xu, Jianzhong Zhou. Optics & Laser Technology 57, pp
159-164. April, 2014.
Investigation
Of Plasma Arc Welding As A Method For The Additive Manufacturing Of
Ti-6al-4v Alloy Components. Joe Stavinoha, Wolf Robotics, Inc. and
Bruce Madigan, Montana Tech. Presentation at the American
Welding Society Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November, 20>13.
Measurement
and Analysis of SHCCT Diagram for CLAM Steel. Yuming Huanga,
Xizhang Chena, Zheng Shena, Bruce Madigan, Lei Yuchenga, Jianzhong
Zhouc. Journal of Nuclear Materials. Volume 432, Issues 1-3, Pages
460-465, January, 2013.
An
Overview of the Welding Technologies of CLAM Steels for Fusion
Application. Chen, X.; Huang, Y.; Madigan, B.; Zhou, J. Fusion
Engineering and Design, Volume 87, issue 9, p. 1639-1646, September,
2012. (A Top 25 Paper ranked by Science Direct in 2012).
Compatibility
of CLAM Steel Weldments with Static LiPb alloy at 550 °C. Chen, X.;
Shen, Z.; Li, P.; Madigan, B.; Huang, Y.; Lei, Y.; Huang, Q.; Zhou,
J. Fusion Engineering and Design, Volume 87, issue 9 p. 1565-1569,
September, 2012.
Measurement
and Simulation of Titanium Alloy Deposit Temperature in Electron Beam
Additive Manufacturing. Madigan, R. Bruce, Sean F. Riley, Mark J.
Cola, Vivek R. Dave, and John E. Talkington. Ninth International
Trends in Welding Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois, ASM
International, June 4-8, 2012.
Arc
Welding Process Control. Daniel A. Hartman, Manufacturing Behavioral
Science; George E. Cook, Vanderbilt University; R. Bruce Madigan,
Montana Tech of the University of Montana; David R. DeLapp,
Vanderbilt University. ASM Handbook Volume 6A - ASM International,
2011.
Welding
Education: Encouraging a Continued Posture of Learning, Plummer
Memorial Education Lecture, American Welding Society Annual
Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. 2010
What
High School Welding Teachers Need to Know About Welding Engineering.
Annual Utah Vocational Teachers Conference. Salt Lake City Utah.
June, 2008.
Control
of Normal Tool Stress During Friction Stir Welding, R. B. Madigan,
B.J. Shubert, and Y. Mao, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
and T. J. Lienert, Los Alamos National Lab. American Welding Society
Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November, 2007.
Finite
Element Modeling of Friction Stir Welding Mass and Heat Flow, Y. Mao
and R.B. Madigan, Montana Tech of the University of Montana and T. J.
Lienert, Los Alamos National Lab. American Welding Society Annual
Conference, Chicago, IL, November, 2007.
Welding
Engineering Curriculum at Montana Tech of the University of Montana,
R. B. Madigan. American Welding Society Annual Conference, Chicago,
IL, Nov. 2007.
Weldability
Tests: The Best Way to Prevent Cracking, R.B. Madigan. American
Welding Society Conference, Weld Cracking VI. Las Vegas, NV. October,
2007.
In-Process
Monitoring of Friction Stir Welding: A Progress Report, R. B.
Madigan. Presented to the Materials Science and Technology Division,
Los Alamos National Lab. June, 2007.
Numerical
Modeling of Friction Stir Welding , R.B. Madigan, Y. Mao, J. D.
Brooke , and R.P. Donovan, Montana Tech, and D.A. Hartman, M.J. Cola,
M.Q. Johnson and T.J. Lienert, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
National Nuclear Security Agency, Future Technologies Conference II,
Regency Capital Hill, Washington DC, 2006.
Manufacturing
Curriculum Development at Montana Tech: Extreme Programming
Practices Applied to Small-Lot Manufacturing, by B. Madigan and R
Donovan, Small-Lot Intelligent Manufacturing Workshop II Sponsored by
Los Alamos National Laboratory. Bishop's Lodge, Santa Fe, New
Mexico. September, 2005.
The
Future of Welding Automation. R. Bruce Madigan. Invited Speaker,
Advanced Weapons Engineering and Manufacturing Directorate. Los
Alamos National Laboratory. June 2005.
What's
New at Montana Tech's Welding Engineering Option, R. Bruce Madigan,
Montana Tech. American Welding Society's Education Engineering
Committee, What's New in Welding Education? Seminar At The Colorado
School of Mines. June 2005.
Achieving
Grain Refinement through Mechanical Weld Pool Oscillation. Timothy
J. McInerney and R. Bruce Madigan, Montana Tech and C.E. Cross,
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Joining
Technology Division, Berlin, Germany. ASM 7th International Trends in
Welding Research Conference, Pine Mountain, GA. May 16-20, 2005.
An
Overview of Sensors and Controls for Welding. R. Bruce Madigan,
Montana Tech. Presenter and Co-Chairman, AWS Conference on Welding
Automation, Dallas, TX. April 27, 2005.
An
Overview of Formal Weldability Testing. R. Bruce Madigan, Montana
Tech and Carl E. Cross, Federal Institute for Materials Research and
Testing (BAM), Joining Technology Division, Berlin, Germany. AWS Weld
Cracking V Conference, New Orleans, LA. February 15-16, 2005.
Through-arc
process monitoring: techniques forcontrol of automated gas metal arc
welding. Barborak, D.; Conrardy, C.; Madigan, B.; Paskell, T. ,IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Proceedings.
Volume 4, Page(s):3053 - 3058 vol.4, 1999.
Arc
Sensing for Defects in Constant-Voltage Gas Metal Arc Welding. T. P.
Quinn, C. Smith, C. N. McCowan, E. Blachowiak and R. B. Madigan.
Welding Journal. September 1999.
Electrode
Extension In Aluminum Gas Metal Arc Welding. Quinn, T.P. and Madigan,
R.B., AWS Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. April 1997.
Analysis
Of The Start Transient In Steel GMAW
For Arc Start Control. Madigan, R.B., and Quinn, T.P. AWS Annual
Conference. San Diego, CA. April1997.
Sensing
Of Contact Tube Wear In Short Welds. Madigan, R.B., Quinn, T.P. and
Klein, C.F. Seventh International Conference on Computer Technology
in Welding. San Francisco, CA. July 1997.
Weld
Defect Decisions Using Through-The-Arc Sensor Data. Quinn, T.P.,
Madigan, R.B., Smith, C.B., and Blachowiak, E.G. Seventh
International Conference on Computer Technology in Welding. San
Francisco, CA. July 1997
A
Standard Procedure For Spatter Measurement. McCowan, C.N., Madigan,
R.B., Siewert, T.A., and Dube, W.P. AWS Annual Conference. Chicago,
IL. April, 1996.
Survey
Of Welding Arc Optical Emissions For Process Control. Richardson,
R.W. and Madigan, R. B. AWS Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. April
1996.
Power
Characteristics In GMAW;
Experimental And Numerical Investigations. Jonsson, P.G., Szekely,
J., Madigan, R.B., and Quinn, T.P. Welding Journal. March 1995.
Contact
Tip Wear Detection In Gas Metal Arc Welding. Madigan, R.B., Quinn,
T.P., Mornis, M.A., and Siewert, T.A. Welding Journal. April 1995.
Sensing
And Control Of Droplet Frequency During GMAW.
Madigan, R.B. AWS Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH. April 1995.
A
Review Of NIST Workshop On Welding Industry Needs. Naval Ship Panel 7
Meeting. AWS Precision Joining Center. Denver, CO. August, '95.
Control
Of Gas-Metal-Arc Welding Using Arc Light Sensing. Madigan, R.B.,
Quinn, T.P., and Siewert, T.A. NISTIR 5037. November 1995.
Computers
in Welding: A Primer. Siewert, T.A., Madigan, R.B. and Quinn, T.P.
Welding Journal. February 1994.
Mapping
The Droplet Transfer Modes For An ER100S-1 GMAW
Electrode. Heald, P.R., Madigan, R.B., Siewert, T.A. and Liu, S.
Welding Journal. February 1994.
Adaptive
control of arc length during gas metal arc welding. Madigan, R.B. and
Quinn, T.P. AWS International Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
April 1994.
Graphical
User Interfaces for Monitoring and Controlling GMAW. Madigan, R.B.,
Sloan, C., Quinn, T.P., and Siewert, T.A. Fifth International Welding
Computerization Conference. Golden, CO. August 1994.
An
electrode extension model for gas metal arc welding. Quinn, T.P.,
Madigan, R.B., and Siewert, T.A. Welding Journal. October 1994.
Control
of arc length during gas metal arc welding. Madigan, R.B. and Quinn,
T.P. AWS International Conference on Modelling and Control of Joining
Processes. Orlando, Florida. December 1993.
Arc
length controller design for GMAW. Quinn, T.P. and Madigan, R.B. AWS
International Conference on Modelling and Control of Joining
Processes. Orlando, Florida. December 1993.
Detection
of wear in contact tubes for GMAW. Quinn, T.P., Madigan, R.B., and
Siewert, T.A. Proceeding of the 1993 ASME Symposia on Manufacturing
Science and Engineering. New Orleans, LA.
Dynamic
model of electrode extension for gas metal arc welding. T.P. Quinn
and R.B. Madigan, International Trends in Welding Science and
Technology, ASM International Conference Proceedings pp. 1003-1008,
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, June, 1992.
Sensing
droplet detachment and electrode extension for gas metal arc welding.
R.B. Madigan, T.P. Quinn and T.A. Siewert. International Trends in
Welding Science and Technology. ASM International Conference
Proceedings. pp. 999-1002. Gatlinburg, Tennessee. June 1992.
Through-the-arc
sensing for monitoring arc welding. T.A. Siewert, R.B. Madigan and
T.P. Quinn. International Trends in Welding Science and Technology.
ASM International Conference Proceedings. pp. 1037-1040. Gatlinburg,
Tennessee. June 1992.
Through-the-arc
sensing for real-time measurement of gas metal arc weld quality. T.A.
Siewert, R.B. Madigan and T.P. Quinn. International Conference on
Computerization of Welding Information IV. pp. 198-206. American
Welding Society. November 1992.
Through-the-arc
sensing for measuring gas metal arc weld quality in real time. T.A.
Siewert, R.B. Madigan and T.P. Quinn. Materials Evaluation. pp.
1314-1318. November 1992.
Evaluation
of alternative sensors for control of GMAW. Madigan, R.B., Quinn,
T.P., Siewert, T.A., Liu, S. and Jones, J.E. AWS Annual Conference.
Detroit, MI. April 1991.
Investigation
of spray transfer parameters in GMAW. Heald, P.R., Liu, S., Madigan,
R.B., and Siewert, T.A. American Welding Society Annual Conference.
Detroit, MI. April 1991.
Droplet
transfer modes for a MIL 100S-1 GMAW Electrode. Heald, P.R.,
Madigan,R.B., Siewert, T.A., and Liu,S. NISTIR 3976. United States
Department of Commerce. National Institute for Standards and
Technology. Materials Reliability Division. October 1991.
Gas
tungsten arc welding. AWS Welding Handbook, 8th Edition, Vol 2,
Chapter 3. Hicken, G.K., Campbell, R.D., Daumeyer, G.J., Madigan,
R.B., Marburger, S.J. and Young, B. American Welding Society, 1991.
Survey
of penetration control techniques. Madigan, R.B. and Castner, H.R.
Edison Welding Institute Research Report MR9002, January 1990.
PC-based
expert systems and their applications to welding. Barborak, D.M.,
Dickinson, D.W. and Madigan, R.B. Welding Journal. January 1990. pp.
29-38.
Review
of welding process controls. Madigan, R. B. Golden Gate Materials
Technology Conference. San Francisco, CA. 1989.
Process
modeling and control. Madigan, R.B. Second Annual North American
Welding Research Seminar. EWI/TWI. Columbus, Ohio. September 1988.
How
to control weld penetration. Madigan, R.B. Welding Design &
Fabrication. September 1987.
Ways
to keep torches in seams. Madigan, R.B. Welding Design &
Fabrication. October 1987.
Coaxial
vision for control of welding Al and Ti plate. Richardson, R.W., and
Madigan, R.B. American Welding Society Annual Conference. 1987.
Control
of full-penetration GTA welds using pool oscillation sensing.
Madigan, R.B. and Richardson, R.W. American Welding Society Annual
Conference. 1986.
Computer-based
control of full penetration GTA welds using pool oscillation sensing.
Madigan, R.B., Renwick, R.J., Farson, D.F., and Richardson, R.W.
International Conference on Computer Technology In Welding, Paper 11.
The Welding Institute. London, England. 1986.
Control
of full-penetration GTA weld size in sheet metal using weld pool
oscillation sensing. Madigan, R. B. and Richardson, R.W. Sheet Metal
Welding Conference II. Paper 9. Dearborn, Michigan. 1986.