Julie Tucker
303E Dearborn Hall
Corvallis
OR
97331
Julie.Tucker@oregonstate.edu
Phone: 
541.737.5840

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Materials Science Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Director

Research Lab: 
Nuclear Materials and Metallurgy Group

Materials

Education

  • Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2008
  • M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2005
  • B.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Missouri at Rolla

Research Interests:

Dr. Tucker’s research focuses on degradation of materials in extreme environments and alloy development. Her research efforts leverage both modeling and experimental approaches.

Biography

Dr. Tucker earned her B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla. She attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin – Madison as a Naval Nuclear Propulsion Fellow, where she received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering with a minor in Materials Science in 2008. After graduation, Dr. Tucker spent five years as a Principal Scientist at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, NY studying the thermal stability of structural alloys for nuclear power systems. She joined the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University as an Assistant Professor in 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. In 2019 she was also appointed as the Director of the Materials Science Program at Oregon State. Dr. Tucker has an active research group focused on degradation of materials in extreme environments and alloy development. Her research efforts leverage both modeling and experimental approaches to gain fundamental understanding of materials performance. 

    Selected Publications

    • F. Teng, D.J. Sprouster, G.A. Young, J-H, Ke, J.D. Tucker, Effect of stoichiometry on the evolution of thermally annealed long-range ordering in Ni-Cr alloys, Materialia, 8 (2019) 100453 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2019.100453 
    • L. Teeter, N. Huerta, M. Ziomek-Moroz, J.D. Tucker, R. Thomas, R. Oleksak, R. Repukaiti, Ö. Doğan, Effect of O2 on the Long-term Operation and Corrosion of Steel X65 in CO2-H2O Environments for Direct Supercritical CO2 Power Cycle Applications, Journal of Supercritical Fluids (2019). 
    • J.D. Tucker, Y. Wei, W. Marcum, and P.V. Murkute, B.J. Gibbons, and O.B. Isgor, Quantifying Oxide Layer Growth at Low Pressures and Temperatures for Aluminum Alloy 6061, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 50(7), (2019), pp. 3388-3398. DOI: 0.1007/s11661-019-05256-3
    • J-H. Ke, G.A. Young, J.D. Tucker, Ab initio study of phosphorus effect on vacancy-mediated process in nickel alloys – An insight into Ni2Cr ordering, Acta Materialia,172 (2019), pp. 30-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.04.036
    • D.A. Addison, J.D. Tucker, T. Siegmund, V. Tomar, J.J. Kruzic, Cyclic and time-dependent crack growth mechanisms in alloy 617, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 737, (2018) 205-212.
    • L. Sprowl, J.D. Tucker, B. Adam, L. Árnadóttir, First-Principles Study of the Products of CO2 Dissociation on Nickel-Based Alloys: Trends in Energetics with Alloying Element, Surface Science, 667 (2018), pp. 219-231 
    • B. Adam, L. Teeter; J. Mahaffey, M. Anderson, L. Árnadóttir, J.D. Tucker, Effects of corrosion in supercritical CO2 on the microstructural evolution in 800H alloy, Oxidation of Metals, 90 (2018), pp. 453-468.   https://doi.org/10.1007/s11085-018-9852-7.
    • J. Tucker, M. Miller, G. Young, Assessment of thermal embrittlement in duplex stainless steels 2003 and 2205 for nuclear power applications, Acta Materialia 87 (2015) 15-24.
    • L. Barnard, G.A. Young, B. Swoboda, S. Choudhury, D. Morgan, A.V.d. Ven, J.D. Tucker, Atomistic modeling of the order-disorder phase transformation in the Ni2Cr model alloy, Acta Materialia 81 (2014) 258-271.
    • J.D. Tucker, R. Najafabadi, T.R. Allen, D. Morgan, Ab initio-based diffusion theory and tracer diffusion in Ni-Cr and Ni-Fe alloys, Journal of Nuclear Materials 405(3) (2010) 216-234.