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Dr. Arthur Motta Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University 227 Reber Building University Park, PA 16802	Phone: 814-865-0036 Fax: 814-865-8499 E-Mail: atm2@psu.edu
Webpage: http://www.mne.psu.edu/motta/

Expertise:
Behavior of nuclear reactor materials under irradiation, including structural components and fuel cladding; materials under irradiation; phase transformations; corrosion; mechanical behavior of materials; materials characterization using transmission electron microscopy, positron annihilation spectroscopy, synchrotron radiation; Zr alloys, intermetallic compounds, steels.

Education:
Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1988
M.S. Nuclear Engineering, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1983
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1980

Positions Held:
The Pennsylvania State University, 1992-Present
Post-doctoral Researcher, AECL/Chalk River Laboratory, Oct. 1991-June 1992
Post-doctoral Researcher, CEA/Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble, Sept. 1989-Sept. 1991

Honors/Awards:
Materials Institute Award for Best M.Sc. Thesis at Penn State, 2002-2003 O.N. Pierron, Influence of Hydride Blisters on Failure of Zircaloy-4 Sheet (co-advised with D. Koss)
Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Advising Award, 2001
Xerox Award for best M.Sc. Thesis in Materials at Penn State, 1998-1999, D.W. Bates for thesis "Influence of Stress State and Hydrogen on Deformation and Failure of Zircaloy 4" (co-advised by Don Koss)
Xerox Award for best M.Sc. Thesis in Materials at Penn State, 1997-1998, T.M. Link for thesis "Failure of Zircaloy Cladding Under Severe Loading Conditions" (co-advised by Don Koss)
Department Head's Outstanding Faculty Award, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, 1998
Honorable Mention, for poster "Calculation of Defect Energetics in Zr2Ni and ZrNi Intermetallic compounds using Molecular Dynamics", by C.S. Moura at Penn State Graduate Research Exhibition, March 1999
John Schemel Best Paper Award, 10th ASTM International Symposium on Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry, Baltimore, 1993, for paper titled, "Oxidation of Intermetallic Precipitates in Zircaloy-4: Impact of Irradiation"
Visiting Professorship, at the Materials Department of the Institute for Nuclear and Energy Research, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 1994
Visiting Professorship at Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., Chalk River Laboratories, Canada, 1993 and 1994
Named IAEA specialist in Experts Program, Vienna, Austria, 1995

Affiliations:
American Nuclear Society (ANS) - Materials and Radioactive Waste Division
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica (Brazilian Physical Society) (SBF)
American Physical Society
Materials Research Society