PhD in INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

email: elisa.tata@uniroma2.it
phone: 0672597169
building: industriale

Maria Elisa Tata graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata” in 1992. PhD in Engineering of Mechanical Metallurgy, Associate Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata”. She teaches “Metallurgy”and “Materials for special applications”. The experimental activity of research involves measurements optical, and electron microscopy (SEM, TEM, STM), mechanical tests, X-ray diffraction, internal friction measurements. The main investigated topics are: 1) Shape memory alloys (SMA) to be employed as sensor and/or actuator (self deployable- solar sails); 2) Production and characterization of metal foams; 3) Ferritic/Martensitic stainless steels, candidate material for structural applications in future fusion reactors: microstructural and mechanical characterization; study of Cr carbides precipitation; study of mechanical properties of welded joints (laser beam and TIG); influence of Cr on Hydrogen attack; 4) Effects of small charges explosion on fcc metals; 5) Plastic deformation at high temperature of titanium alloys; 6) Mechanical and microstructural characterization of titanium composite reinforced with SiC fibers. Author of about 155 papers published on international and national journals. She has been involved in several projects of base and industrial research supported by both public and private funds.