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OLEG D. SHERBY
OLEG D. SHERBY
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NIX OLEG DIMITRI SHERBY, a pioneer in the high-temperature deformation of complex materials, died at his home in Menlo Park on November 9, 2015, at age 90. He was an emeritus professor at Stanford University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
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Oleg joined the Stanford faculty in 1958 as an associate professor of metallurgical engineering with a joint appointment in aeronautical engineering. He was promoted to full professor in 1962, a position he held until 1988, when he decided to take professor emeritus status to tend to his ailing wife.
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By the mid-1960s he had developed a complete phenomenology for high-temperature creep of metals that served not only as a guide for designing heatresisting alloys but also as a solid body of facts about hightemperature creep to which modern theories must conform. He was a master at developing phenomenological relations among physical properties of materials.
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His work on superplasticity extended to certain ceramic materials, which are often assumed to be completely brittle, and his work on ultra-high-carbon steels revealed that they had similar compositions to the famous steel swords of Damascus. This in turn led to a rediscovery of how the ancient patterns on the swords were made and stimulated research into other ancient laminated steels and their similarity to contemporary materials.
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presented by the International Conference on Superplasticity in Advanced Materials; and Thermec 2000 Distinguished Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979, and from 1983 to 2003 served on committees on lightweight materials for 21st century trucks, Office of Naval Research opportunities in materials science, and hydrofracture techniques for the disposal of radioactive waste.
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Anyone who met Oleg will remember his joie de vivre. He was the most enthusiastic, positive, and upbeat person many of us will ever meet.
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