PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND PATENTS
2016
Journal Articles
BECKER TH, BLAINE DC, TER HAAR GM. Influence of heat treatments on the microstructure and tensile behaviour of selective laser melting-produced TI-6AL-4V parts. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering 2016; 27(3):174-183.
BLAINE DC. Two-phase master sintering curve for 17-4 ph stainless steel. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. A 2016; 47A(5548):1-9.
Proceedings National
CUPERUS JL, VENTER G, BLAINE DC. Finite element analysis of the tread quenching of railway wheels. 10th South African conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics, North West, South Africa, SA Assoc for Computational and Applied Mechanics (SAAM) 2016: 1-13.
2015
Journal Articles
HINDLEY MP, BLAINE DC, GROENWOLD A, BECKER TH. Failure prediction of full-size reactor components from tensile specimen data on NBG-18 nuclear graphite. Nuclear Engineering and Design 2015; 284:1-9.
DU PLESSIS A, LE ROUX SG, ELS J, BOOYSEN GJ, BLAINE DC. Application of microCT to the non-destructive testing of an additive manufactured titanium component. Case studies in nondestructive testing and evaluation 2015; 4:1-7.
2014
Journal Articles
HINDLEY MP, GROENWOLD AA, BLAINE DC, BECKER TH. Optimisation of the link volume for weakest link failure prediction in NBG-18 nuclear graphite. Nuclear Engineering and Design 2014; 274 : 10-19.
Proceedings International
BLAINE DC, BOSMAN HL, LAUBSCHER HH. Process Models for Press-and-Sinter Titanium. AMI Light Metals Conference, Pilansberg National Park, Pilansberg, South Africa, Trans Tech Publication 2014: 231-240.
BOSMAN HL, BLAINE DC. Influence of Powder Particle Size Distribution on the Properties of Press-and-Sintered Titanium and Ti-6AI-4V Preforms. AMI Light Metals Conference, Pilansberg National Park, Pilansberg, South Africa, Trans Tech Publication 2014: 225-230.
CROMBIE CTC, BLAINE DC. Thermo-Gravimetric Analysis and Debinding Study of Powder Injection Moulded Titanium Alloy. AMI Light Metals Conference, Pilansberg National Park, Pilansberg, South Africa, Trans Tech Publications Ltd 2014: 210-217
2013
Journals
HINDLEY MP, MITCHELL MN, ERASMUS C, MCMURTY R, BECKER TH, BLAINE DC, GROENWOLD AA. A numerical stress based approach for predicting failure in NBG-18 nuclear graphite components with verification problems. Journal of Nuclear Materials 2013; 436 : 175-184.
KEMP I, DELLIMORE KH, RODRIGUEZ R, SCHEFFER C, BLAINE DC, WEICH HSVH, DOUBELL AF. Experimental validation of the fluid-structure interaction simulation of a bioprosthetic aortic heart valve. Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine 2013; 36(3) : 363-373.
Proceedings International
BLAINE DC, ILCHEV A, PETRIK L, NDUNGU P, NECHAEV A. Deposition of Platinum Nanoparticles onto Copper Foils by Electrophoresis. The International Conference on Sintering 2011, Jeju, Korea, 2012: 3-16.
• “Observations in the statistical analysis of NBG-18 nuclear
graphite strength tests” by Michael P. Hindley, Mark N. Mitchell,
Deborah C. Blaine, and Albert A. Groenwold, Journal of Nuclear
Materials, Volume 420, Issues 1–3, January 2012, Pages 110-115
•
“Investigating the production and properties of porous titanium for
biomedical implants” by W.H van Zyl and D.C Blaine, presented at Annual
Conference of the Powder Metals Association (PMA) of South Africa,
October 2011, Crown Mines, Johannesburg, South Africa
• “Sintering
of electrophoretically deposited platinum nanoparticles” by D Blaine, A
Ilchev, L Petrik, P Ndungu and A Nechaev, presented at Sintering 2011,
September 2011, Jeju Island, Korea
• “Application of fine element
analysis to the design of tissue leaftlets for a percutaneous aortic
valve” by A.N. Smuts, D.C. Blaine, C. Scheffer, H. Weich, A.F. Doubell,
K.H. Dellimore Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical
Materials, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 85-98
•
“Machinability of PM titanium” by K.K. Sobiyi and D.C. Blaine, presented
at Annual Conference of the Powder Metals Association (PMA) of South
Africa, October 2010, Crown Mines, Johannesburg, South Africa
•
“Initial studies in powder metallurgy processing of titanium” by K.K.
Sobiyi and D.C. Blaine, presented at Advanced Metals Initiative (AMI)
Light Metals Conference, October 2010, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg, South
Africa
• “High Performance Machining of Selected Titanium Alloys
for Aerospace Application” by Dimitrov, D; Neugebauer, R; Oosthuizen, G;
Schmidt, G; Treurnicht, N; Blaine, D. Chemnitz Manufacturing Colloquium
(ICMC), 29-30 September 2010. Chemnitz, Germany
• “Electrophoretic
Deposition of PGM nanoalloys” by D Blaine, A Ilchev, L Petrik and P
Ndungu, presented at Powdermet 2010, June 2010, Fort Lauderdale, FL,
USA
• “The Machinability of PM Titanium” by D Blaine and K Sobiyi, presented at Powdermet 2010, June 2010, Fort Lauderdale, USA
• “Titanium Powder Metallurgy” by D. Blaine, presented at IASSA 2009, November 2009, Centurion, South Africa
• InnovUS – T659, Provisional Patent, Registration number ZA2008/09338,
Filing date: 31 October 2008, Title: Artificial heart replacement
valve, Inventors: C. Scheffer, H. Weich, A.N. Smuts, A. Esterhuyse, K.
Van Aswegen, A. Groenwold, D.C. Blaine and K. Van Der Westhuizen
•
“Linearization of the Master Sintering Curve” by D. C. Blaine, S. J.
Park and R. M. German, presented at 5th International Conference on
Sintering 2008, November 2008, San Diego, USA. Published in Journal of
American Ceramic Society, Vol. 92, No. 7, July 2009, pp. 1403-1409
•
“Application of Work-of-Sintering Concepts in Powder Metals” by D. C.
Blaine, S. J. Park, P. Suri, and R. M. German, Metallurgical and
Materials Transactions A, Vol. 37A, No. 9, September 2006, pp. 2827-2835
• “Master Sintering Curve Concepts as Applied to the Sintering of
Molybdenum” by D.C. Blaine, J.D. Gurosik, S-J. Park, D.F. Heaney and
R.M. German, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 37A, No.
3, March 2006, pp.715 – 720
• “Critical Use of Video-Imaging to
Rationalize Computer Sintering Simulation Models” by D. C. Blaine, R.
Bollina, S-J. Park and R. M. German, Computers in Industry - Special
Issue: Machine Vision, Vol. 56, Issues 8-9, December 2005, pp. 867-875
• “Analysis of the Processing and Properties of Bulk Nanoscale
Refractory Metals” by R. M. German, D.C. Blaine and E. Olevsky,
proceedings of the 16th International Plansee Seminar, Reutte, Austria,
Vol. 1, 2005
• “Master Sintering Curve for a two-phase material”, by
D. C. Blaine, S. Park, R. M. German, Proceedings of the 4th
International Conference on Science, Technology and Applications of
Sintering, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble,
France, 2005, pp. 264 - 267
• “Modeling of fine molybdenum powder
for press-and-sinter processing,” by D. C. Blaine, P. Garg, R. M.
German, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Science,
Technology and Applications of Sintering, Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, 2005, pp. 268 - 271
•
“In situ characterization of apparent viscosity for continuum modelling
of supersolidus liquid phase sintering”, by D. Blaine, R. Bollina, and
R. M. German, poster, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on
Science, Technology and Applications of Sintering, Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, 2005, pp. 307-310
• "A
Model for the Consolidation of Ultrafine Metal Powders," by R. M.
German, D. Blaine, and E. Olevsky, Proceedings of the 2005 International
Conference on Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials, Metal Powder
Industries Federation, Princeton, NJ, 2005, pp. 1.100-1.109
•
"Computer Modeling of Distortion and Densification during Liquid Phase
Sintering of High-Performance Materials," by D. C. Blaine, R. M. German,
and S. J. Park, Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on
Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials, Metal Powder Industries
Federation, Princeton, NJ, 2005, pp. 1.29-1.37.
• “Verifying the
Master Sintering Curve on an Industrial Furnace,” by D. C. Blaine, S. J.
Park, R. M. German, J. LaSalle, and H. Nandi, Proceedings of the 2005
International Conference on Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials,
Metal Powder Industries Federation, Princeton, NJ, 2005, pp. 1.13-1.19.
• “Debinding by Wicking Large PIM Parts,” by D. C. Blaine, R. M.
German, J. LeSalle, S. Das, and B. Sherman, PIM2005, International
Conference on the Powder Injection Molding of Metals, Ceramics, and
Carbides, San Diego, March 2005
• “Distortion and Densification
Control during Liquid Phase Sintering of High-Performance Materials” by
R. M. German, S-H. Chung and D. Blaine, NUMIFORM 2004, proceedings of
8th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming
Processes, Columbus, OH, 13-17 June 2004
• “Production Cost
Sensitivity Analysis for Metal Powder Injection Molding” by R.M. German
and D. Blaine, Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on
Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials, Metal Powder Industries
Federation, Princeton, NJ, 2004
• “Finite Element Simulation of
Sintering Shrinkage and Distortion in Large PIM Parts” by D. Blaine,
S.H. Chung, S.J. Park. P. Suri and R.M. German, PM Science and
Technology Briefs, Vol.6., No.2., August 2004, pp. 13-18
• “PIM
Simulation and Modeling” invited presentation at Powder Injection
Molding Introduction and Short Course, Orlando, FL, March 2004
•
“Master Sintering Curve Construction Software and its Application” by
S.J. Park, S.H. Chung, D. Blaine, P. Suri, and R.M. German, PIM2004,
International Conference on the Powder Injection Molding of Metals,
Ceramics, and Carbides, Orlando, FL, March 2004
• “Large Metallic
Parts by PIM” by D.Blaine, R.M. German, P. Suri, S. Das and J. LaSalle,
PIM2004, International Conference on the Powder Injection Molding of
Metals, Ceramics, and Carbides, Orlando, FL, March 2004
• “Sintering
Shrinkage and Microstructural Evolution of a Martensitic Stainless
Steel” by D. Blaine, Y. Wu, C. Schlaefer, B. Marx, and R.M. German,
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Science, Technology
and Applications of Sintering: SINTERING 2003, State College, PA,
September 2003
• “New Developments in Continuum Modeling of
Sintering” by D. Blaine and R.M. German, Proceedings of the 3rd
International Conference on Science, Technology and Applications of
Sintering: SINTERING 2003, State College, PA, September 2003
•
“Evolution of PIM Sintering Models for Finite Element Size and Shape
Prediction” by D.C. Blaine and R.M. German, PIM2003, International
Conference on the Powder Injection Molding of Metals, Ceramics, and
Carbides,State College, PA, March 2003
• “Simulation and Modeling for PIM” invited presenter at PIM Tutorial, State College, PA, October 2002
• “Sinter Simulation of PIM parts” presented at CISP Industry Member Meeting, State College, PA, October 2002
• Axel Madsen/CPMT Scholarship Report – Debby Blaine, International
Journal Powder Metallurgy, Vol. 38, No. 6, September 2002, pp. 38-39
• “Effects of residual carbon content on sintering shrinkage,
microstructure and mechanical properties of injection molded 17-4 PH
stainless steel” by Y.Wu, R.M. German, D. Blaine, B. Marx and C.
Schlaefer, Journal of Materials Science, Vol.37, 2002, pp. 3573-3583
• “Sintering Densification and Microstructural Evolution of Injection
Molding Grade 17-4 PH Stainless Steel Powder” by Y. Wu, D. Blaine, B.
Marx, C. Schlaefer, and R.M. German, Metallurgical and Materials
Transactions A, Vol. 33A, July 2002, pp.2185-2194
• “Sintering
Simulation of PIM Stainless Steel” by D. Blaine and R.M. German,
Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Powder Metallurgy
and Particulate Materials, Metal Powder Industries Federation,
Princeton, NJ, 2002
• “Sintering Simulation of PIM Stainless Steel”
by D. Blaine and R.M. German, PIM 2002, International Conference on the
Powder Injection Molding of Metals, Ceramics, and Carbides, San Diego,
CA, March 2002
• “Analysis of the Driving Potential of a Solar
Chimney Power Plant” by D.G. Kröger and D. Blaine, R&D Journal (a
publication of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineers),
vol. 15, No. 3, 1999, pp. 85-94 (see AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS)