Bio

Chris Rock joined CAMAL in November 2016 after a long and highly productive run at ATI. Rock worked in the areas of nickel product development, new melting technologies, powder metallurgy, additive manufacturing and process modeling. Before joining ATI, he was employed at PCC Special Metals in West Virginia as a melt engineer and R&D process engineer.

Research Interests

Christopher Rock’s professional interests include new alloy development for various markets using additive manufacturing, process modeling and development. He is also interested in new sensor technologies for process monitoring.

Publications

• Chemistry effects on ODS steel consolidated via laser powder bed fusion from GARS powder , Materials Characterization (2025)
• Electrical transport in tunably disordered metamaterials , Physical Review E (2025)
• Additive Manufacturing for RF Products , 2024 JOINT INTERNATIONAL VACUUM ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE AND INTERNATIONAL VACUUM ELECTRON SOURCES CONFERENCE, IVEC + IVESC 2024 (2024)
• 1.5 MW CW RF Loads for Gyrotrons , EPJ Web of Conferences (2023)
• Microstructure and Elevated Temperature Flexure Testing of Tungsten Produced by Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing , JOM (2023)
• Microstructure development and properties of micro-alloyed copper, Cu-0.3Zr-0.15Ag, produced by electron beam additive manufacturing , Materials Characterization (2023)
• Laser Powder Bed Fusion of ODS 14YWT from Gas Atomization Reaction Synthesis Precursor Powders , JOM (2022)
• Laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of oxide dispersion strengthened steel using gas atomized reaction synthesis powder , Materials & Design (2022)
• Characterization of copper & stainless steel interface produced by electron beam powder bed fusion , Materials & Design (2021)
• Electron Beam Melting of Niobium Alloys from Blended Powders , Materials (2021)

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