Research Interests

• Deformation and failure of materials under a wide range of conditions including cyclic fatigue, environmentally assisted crack growth, high pressure, and high strain rate
• Development of test and diagnostic methods for assessing material plastic flow behavior, crack growth, and damage

Professional Memberships

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

Ph.D., Materials Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1994

MNE, Nuclear Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1989

BNE, Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 1986

• Bringa, E. M., et al., "Ultrahigh Strength in Nanocrystalline Materials under Shock Loading," Science 309, 1838–1841 (2005).
• McNaney, J. M., M. J. Edwards, R. Becker, K. T. Lorenz, and B. A. Remington, "High Pressure, Laser Driven Deformation of an Aluminum Alloy," Met. Trans A 35A, 2625–2631 (2004).
• McNaney, J. M., V. Imbeni, Y. Jung, P. Papadopoulos, and R. O. Ritchie, "An Experimental Study of the Superelastic Effect in a Shape-Memory Nitinol Alloy under Biaxial Loading," Mechanics of Materials 35, 969–86 (2003).
• Peters, J. O., B. L. Boyce, X. Chen, J. M. McNaney, J. W. Hutchinson, and R. O. Ritchie, "On the Application of the Kitagawa-Takahashi Diagram to Foreign-Object Damage and High-Cycle Fatigue in a Ti-6Al-4V Turbine Blade Alloy," Engineering Fracture Mechanics 69, 13, pp. 1425-1446 (2002).

• Best Paper, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, 1998
• John Dorn Scholastic Achievement Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
• Graduated Highest Honors, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986