Alex Hudgins
Principal Engineer @Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Engineer @Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
EDUCATION
Colorado School of Mines
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Metallurgical Engineering
Lehigh University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Science and Engineering
ABOUT ALEX HUDGINS
Dr. Hudgins specializes in failure analysis, metallurgy, materials science, corrosion, and fracture mechanics. Dr. Hudgins has experience in the automotive, medical device, energy, consumer product, and electronics industries. He has extensive processing, microstructural development, and property development expertise utilizing optical microcopy, scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, microhardness, nanoindentation, analytical modeling, and novel mechanical testing techniques. Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Hudgins conducted his Ph.D. dissertation work at Colorado School of Mines where he studied advanced high strength sheet steel formability for automotive applications. Specifically, unanticipated fractures in the high strength, multiphase materials were investigated using a high rate bending under tension test frame which simulated stamping operations in industry. Structure-property relationships of dual phase (DP), transformation induced plasticity (TRIP), and high strength, low alloy (HSLA) steels were evaluated using laboratory heat treatments to carefully control microstructural variables such as grain size, phase volume fraction, and phase strength levels.
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