NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory - Polymers Division Staff- Walter McDonough

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	Polymers Main Page > Staff Directory > Detail.. Walter G. McDonough
	Materials Engineer Characterization and Measurement
	Phone:	(301) 975-3661
	Fax:	(301) 975-4932
	Email:	walter.mcdonough@nist.gov
	Mail:	8543

	Research Interests Research interests include long term durability of machine readable travel documents and the long term mechanical performace of ballistic fibers. Education MS in Materials Science and Engineering (MIT 1987) BS in Plastics Engineering (University of Lowell 1981) Honors U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award Selected Publications W.G. McDonough, K.M. Flynn, D.L. Hunston, and J.P. Dunkers, "A Test Method to Determine the Fiber and Void Contents of Carbon/Glass Hybrid Composites," Journal of ASTM International 1, (2004). D. Skrtic, J.M. Antonucci, W.G. McDonough, and D.W. Liu, "Effect of Chemical Structure and Composition of the Resin Phase on Mechanical Strength and Vinyl Conversion of Amorphous Calcium Phosphate-based Composites," Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A 68A, 763-772 (2004). J.M. Antonucci, W.G. McDonough, D.W. Liu, and D. Skrtic, "Effect of Acidic Comonomers on Methacrylate Conversion and Mechanical Strength of Bioactive Composites Based on Amorphous Calcium Phosphate," ACS Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 88, 50-51 (2003). G.A. Holmes, W.G. McDonough, J.P. Dunkers, and C.C. Han, "Interaction between Matrix Cracks in E-Glass/Epoxy Two-Dimensional Multi-Fiber-Array Model Composites," Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 41, 2976-2981 (2003). W.G. McDonough, J.M. Antonucci, J.P. Dunkers, and G.E. Schumacher, "Glass-fiber/resin Interfacial Strength: The Microbond Test and Chemical Evaluation," in Proceedings of the Academy of Dental Materials Annual meeting, Charleston, SC. J.M. Antonucci, W.G. McDonough, D.W. Liu, and D. Skrtic, "Effect of Polymer Matrices on Methacrylate Conversion and Mechanical Strength of Bioactic Composites Based on Amorphous Calcium Phosphate," ACS Polymer Preprints 43, 741-742 (2002). J. He, M.Y.M. Chiang, W.G. McDonough, and D.L. Hunston, "Experimental and Theoretical Evaluations of the Iosipescu Shear Test for Hybrid Fiber Composites," in SAMPE 2002, 154-164, Long Beach, CA. G.A. Holmes and W.G. McDonough, "E-Glass/DGEBA/m-PDA Model Composites: Time Dependent Failure in a Brittle Multi-Fiber Composite," in 47th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition 2002, 47:2/2, 1690-1702. W.G. McDonough, J.M. Antonucci, J. He, Y. Shimada, M.Y. Chiang, G. Schumacher, and C.R. Schultheisz, "A Microshear Test to Measure Bond Strengths of Dentin-Polymer Interfaces," Biomaterials 23, 3603-3608 (2002). W.G. McDonough, J.P. Dunkers, G.A. Holmes, E. Feresenbet, Y.H. Kim, and R.S. Parnas, "Influence of Processing Rate and Formulation on the Interface Strength of Vinyl Ester/E-Glass Composites," Polymer Composites 23, 274-283 (2002). W.G. McDonough, J.M. Antonucci, and J.P. Dunkers, "Interfacial Shear Strengths of Dental Resin-Glass Fibers by the Microbond Test," Dental Materials 17, 492-498 (2001). W.G. McDonough, E.J. Amis, J. Kohn, "Critical Issues in the Characterization of Polymers for Medical Applications", NISTIR-6535 (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, 2000). W.G. McDonough, R.S. Parnas, G.A. Holmes, "Micro-Mechanics Measurement Technologies for Fiber-Polymer Interfaces," NISTIR-6102 (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997) W.G. McDonough, G.A. Holmes, R.C. Peterson, "Interface Adhesion of E-Glass Fibers in Model Polyisocyanurate Networks," 13^th Annual Technical Conference on Composite Materials, American Society of Composites, 1998.




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