PERSONAL HISTORY
B.S. 1977, M.S. 1979, Iowa State University; Ames Laboratory, 1979-present; Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, 1984-present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Characterization of material microstructure and effect on mechanical properties, development of new NDE techniques for in-situ characterization of materials processing, characterization of partially contacting interfaces.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
G. Liu, D.K. Rehbein, J.C. Foley, and R.B. Thompson
"Ultrasonic Monitoring of Texture in Aluminum Alloy During Annealing," in Review of Progress of Quantitative NDE, Vol. 19, edited D.O. Thompson and D.E. Chimenti (American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2000), p. 1653.

G. Liu, D.K. Rehbein, J.C. Foley, and R.B. Thompson
"Applications of Pattern Recognition in Aluminum Alloy Texture Characterization," in Review of Progress of Quantitative NDE, Vol. 19, edited by D.O. Thompson and D.E. Chimenti (American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2000), p. 797.

J.C. Foley and D.K. Rehbein
"Characterizing Aluminum Sintering Using In-Situ NDE," J. of Metals, Vol. 52, p. 38 (2000).

J.C. Foley and D.K. Rehbein
"In-Situ Nondestructive Evaluation Method for Characterizing Sintering of Aluminum Powder Metallurgy Compacts," P/M Science and Technology Briefs, Vol. 2, p. 10 (2000).