Graduate student Trupti Suresh Mali uses nanoindentation to determine the hardness of a new printable copper alloy NASA is developing to line combustion chambers of rocket engines. Associate professor Todd Letcher and assistant professor Anamika Prasad of South Dakota State University's Department of Mechanical Engineering are determining the mechanical properties and microstructure of GRCop-42 parts manufacturing using laser power-based directed energy deposition through a NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research grant.
Graduate student Scott Landes of Glencoe, Minnesota, prepares to do tensile testing of a GRCop-42 specimen in the Department of Mechanical Engineering's Material Evaluation and Testing Laboratory at South Dakota State University.