Karl E. Spear
Karl E. Spear
Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-9857
spear@matse.psu.edu
- Thermochemical modeling of phase diagrams and high temperature processes (glass systems, radioactive waste, oxide phase diagrams, corrosion, composite interfaces, CVD.)
- Solid state and high temperature chemistry
- Structure-property correlations
- Chemical vapor deposition and other coating processes for high temperature materials
- Karl Spear, Ted Besmann, Mark Allendorf, “Modeling the Equilibrium Behavior of Chemically Complex Oxide Glass Solutions,” in High Temperature Corrosion and Materials Chemistry V, The Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ (2005), 17pp.
- T. M. Besmann and K. E. Spear, “Thermochemical Modeling of Oxide Glasses,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 85(12), 2887-94 (2002).
- K. E. Spear and Mark D. Allendorf , " Thermodynamic Analysis of Alumina Refractory Corrosion by Sodium or Potassium Hydroxide in Glass-Melting Furnaces," J. Electrochem. Soc. 149(12), B551-B559 (2002).
- Mark D. Allendorf and K.E. Spear, "Thermodynamic Analysis of Silica Refractory Corrosion in Glass-Melting Furnaces," J. Electrochem. Soc. 148(2), B59-B67 (2001).
- K.E. Spear, T.M. Besmann, and E.C. Beahm, “Thermochemical Modeling of Glass: Application to High-Level Nuclear Waste Glass,” in High Temperature Materials Chemistry (Klaus Hilpert, F.W. Froben, and Lorenz Singheiser, eds.), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany, Vol. 15, Part I, pp. 235-239 (2000).
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