Richard Frank has joined the CINDAS cadre of experienced metallurgists who author chapters for our materials properties databases. Richard spent the largest portion of his career from 1978 to 2023 at Carpenter Technology Corporation. Carpenter specialized in the development and processing of superalloys. His positions there included staff specialist for order management metallurgy and staff specialist in product and process technology.

He is a member of professional associations such as ASM, TMS and NACE, as well are many civic associations. He is the author of 13 publications and owner of 2 US Patents regarding nickel-base alloys. Rick has received the Bradley Stoughton Award from the ASM International-Lehigh Valley Chapter and the Warren F. Savage award presented by the American Welding Society.

The first chapter he is writing for CINDAS LLC is on alloy SCF19.

We know you will appreciate the attention to detail that Rick has put into compiling the data and writing the chapter which will be published in 2024.