Anthony Rollett
U.S. Steel Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Co-Director, Next Manufacturing Center
Anthony Rollett has been a member of the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University since 1995, including five years as department head. He is the co-director of the Next Manufacturing Center on additive manufacturing.
Previously, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. There, he was group leader of metallurgy from 1991-1994 and deputy division director of materials science and technology for a year after that.
He has been a Fellow of ASM since 1996, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) since 2004 and Fellow of TMS since 2011. He received the Cyril Stanley Smith Award from TMS in 2014, was elected as Member of Honor by the French Metallurgical Society in 2015, and became the US Steel Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science in 2017. He received Cyril Stanley Smith Award from the International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth in 2019 and also the International Francqui Professor for 2020-2021, from the Francqui Foundation, Belgium. In 2023, he recevied the International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award at the International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium.
His research group is supported by industry, several federal research agencies, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Basic Energy Science Advisory Committee and the Defense Programs Advisory Committee under the Department of Energy. His lecture notes on texture and anisotropy are widely known and used, and he started a new course on additive manufacturing and materials in 2016. He started a new master’s program in additive manufacturing in the fall of 2018.
Rollett’s research focuses on microstructural evolution and microstructure-property relationships in 3D, using both experiments and simulations. Interests include 3D printing of metals, materials for energy conversion systems, strength of materials, constitutive relations, microstructure, texture, anisotropy, grain growth, recrystallization, formability, and stereology. Relevant techniques include high-performance spectral methods in micro-mechanics, dynamic x-ray radiography (DXR) and high-energy diffraction microscopy (HEDM). Important recent results include definition of process windows in 3D printing through characterization of porosity, 3D comparisons of experiment and simulation for plastic deformation in metals, the appearance of new grains during grain growth, and grain size stabilization. He has 250 peer-reviewed journal publications with an h-index of more than 50.
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Metallurgy: Real World Applications
Additive Manufacturing with Metals
Behind the Researcher
Education
1987 Ph.D., Materials Engineering, Drexel University
1977 MA, Metallurgy and Materials Science, Cambridge University
Media mentions
Data-driven Material Design
Annual Review Hosted at CMU
The Center for Data-Driven Design of Multifunctional Material Systems (D3OM2S) recently hosted 30 visitors from Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
Materials Science and Engineering
Rollett Receives International Additive Manufacturing Award
MSE professor Anthony Rollett recently received the International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award at the International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium.
CMU Engineering
Forbes includes six CMU alumni in 30 Under 30 in Energy
Six alumni were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for their groundbreaking startup companies.
CMU News
Rollett showcases research at US DOE summit
MSE’s Anthony Rollett presented research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit.
NASA
Rollett talks to NASA about 3D printed metal parts for spaceflight
MSE’s Tony Rollett, principal investigator of NASA’s new additive manufacturing institute, talks about 3D printed metal parts that will be used for NASA’s spaceflight endeavors in climate research.
CMU Engineering
CMU to Lead NASA Space Technology Research Institute
A new NASA Space Technology Research Institute (STRI) led by Carnegie Mellon University seeks to shorten the cycle required to design, manufacture, and test parts that can withstand the conditions of space travel through constructing models for qualification and certification.
Science Daily
Rollett collaborates on research detecting additive manufacturing defects in real-time
Building upon prior research partnerships, MSE’s Tony Rollett engaged with colleagues at the University of Virginia on “Machine learning–aided real-time detection of keyhole pore generation in laser powder bed fusion,” which was published in Science Magazine in January 2023.
Materials Science and Engineering
Rollett receives prestigious Francqui International Professor Award
Anthony Rollett receives the Francqui International Professor Award for Exact Sciences in 2019.
ASM International
Rollet awarded the 2024 ASM Gold Medal Award
MSE’s Anthony Rollett will receive the 2024 ASM Gold Medal Award for “significant contributions to the development and use of simulations in Materials Science and Engineering to model grain growth, recrystallization, and deformation in three dimensions.”
CMU Engineering
Faculty projects awarded DURIP funding
Three College of Engineering faculty members have been selected to receive funding for their projects through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP): Marc De Graef, Anthony Rollett, and Rebecca Taylor.
CMU Engineering
Behind the Researcher
The College of Engineering is known for our cutting-edge research, academic rigor, and amazing students, but you might be surprised by some of the other talents of our award-winning faculty.
CMU Engineering
A route for avoiding defects during additive manufacturing
Research published in Science reveals how defects form during additive manufacturing, and offers insight into controlling machines to avoid this problem.