Bio
Dr. Collins started as a faculty member at the University of North Texas in September 2010. Prior to this, Collins served as the Deputy Director & Director of Technology for the Quad City Manufacturing Lab (QCML), a not-for-profit manufacturing laboratory strategically integrated with the Rock Island Arsenal-Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC). Collins served as the lead to establish the laboratory, and help the region to establish a center of excellence in the production and manufacturing of advanced materials, specifically titanium alloys for non-aerospace applications. While there, his efforts have included advancements in technologies associated with low-cost titanium powder productions, their consolidation, and the management of organizational issues associated with start-up, including capital acquisition, building design, and budgetary issues. Prior to this role, Collins worked as the Associate Director for the Center for the Accelerated Maturation of Materials (CAMM) and Senior Research Associate and Engineer. Collins was heavily involved in both the development of research directions and programs of the center and the day-to-day research and operations of an academic and research organization which has achieved an international reputation as a leader in experimental and computational materials science. His research has focused on the development of 2D and 3D characterization techniques across length scales, the development of mechanistic understanding of the role of microstructure on tensile and fracture toughness properties in Ti-based alloys, the development of combinatorial techniques to rapidly assess microstructure-property relationships, the use of advanced manufacturing techniques for the production of novel materials, and the use of advanced transmission electron microscopic techniques (including aberration corrected scanning TEM) to probe the most fundamental aspects of a materials microstructure. Collins has also been involved with mechanical alloying of stainless steels, thermal spray for coatings and bulk material, and fatigue of aluminum for automotive applications.
Education
Ph.D., Materials Science, Ohio State University, 2004
M.S., Materials Science, Ohio State University, 2001
B.S., Metallurgical Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1999
Courses
ENGR 3450: Engineering Materials
MTSE 4500: Internship in Materials Science
MTSE 5620: Scanning Electron and Ion Microscopy
MTSE 5625: Scanning Electron and Ion Microscopy Laboratory
MTSE 5800: Special Studies in Materials Science
Articles
Banerjee, R., Bhattacharyya, D., Collins, P. C., Viswanathan, G. B., and Fraser, H. L. (2004). Precipitation of grain boundary α in a laser deposited compositionally graded Ti–8Al–xV alloy – an orientation microscopy study. Acta Materialia, 52(2), 377-385.
Banerjee, R., Collins, P. C., Bhattacharyya, D., Banerjee, S., Fraser, H. L. (2003). Microstructural evolution in laser deposited compositionally graded alpha/beta titanium-vanadium alloys. Acta Materialia, 51(11), 3277-3292.
Banerjee. R., Genc, A, Collins, P. C., and Fraser, H. L. (2003). Direct laser deposition of in situTi–6Al–4V–TiB composites. Material Science and Engineering A, 358(1-2), 343-349.
More Articles
Banerjee. R., Genc, A, Collins, P. C., and Fraser, H. L. (2004). Comparison of microstructural evolution in laser-deposited and arc-melted in-situ Ti-TiB composites. Metallurgical and Materials and Transactions A, 35(7), 2143-2152.
Banerjee. R., Genc, A, Hill, D., Collins, P. C., and Fraser, H. L. (2005). Nanoscale TiB precipitates in laser deposited Ti-matrix composites. Scripta Materialia, 53(12), 1433-1437.
Collins, P. C., Welk, B., Searles, T., Tiley, J., Russ, J. C., Fraser, H. L. (2009). Development of methods for the quantification of microstructural features in α/β processed α/β titanium alloys. Materials Science and Engineering A, 508, pp 174-182
Foltz, J. W., Welk, B., Collins, P. C., Fraser, H. L., and Williams, J. C. (2011). Formation of Grain Boundary α in β Ti Alloys: Its Role in Deformation and Fracture Behavior of These Alloys. Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, 42(3), 654-650.
Peterson, B., Collins, P. C., and Fraser, H. L. ( 2009). On the use of a sub-scale thermomechanical simulator to obtain accurate tensile properties of α/β and β-processed Ti-6Al-4V. Materials Science and Engineering A, 513-514, pp 357-365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2009.02.017.
Schnick, D. E., Hahnlen, R. M., Dehoff, R., Collins, P., Babu, S. S., Dapino, M. J., and Lippold, J. C. (2010). Microstructural Characterization of Bonding Interfaces in Aluminum 3003 Blocks Fabricated by Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing. Welding Journal, 89(5), 105-s – 115-s.
Books/Chapters
Collins, P. C. and Fraser, H. L. (2009). Modeling of Tensile Properties, In Furrer, D.U., Semiatin, S.L., and Moosbrugger, C. (Eds.), ASM Handbook, Vol. 22A, Fundamentals of Modeling for Metals Processing, p. 377-399. Materials Park, OH: ASM International.
