Robert J. Bucci, Ph.D., technical consultant for product design and analysis at Alcoa Inc. in Alcoa Center, Pa., has been named a 2006 recipient of the ASTM Award of Merit and accompanying title of fellow - the highest ASTM recognition for individual contributions to standards activities. With the honor, Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture noted Bucci's role in developing standard test methods for fatigue crack growth rate and fracture resistance testing as well as their application to components and structures.

Bucci lives in
Pittsburgh, Pa.

An ASTM International member since 1974, Bucci serves on several E08 subcommittees as well as Committees D30 on Composite Materials and G01 on Corrosion of Metals. Bucci has chaired ASTM working groups and task groups, participated in round robins, and he has been instrumental in standards to help characterize the fracture toughness of thin metallic materials. In addition, Bucci has made many technical presentations and has published extensively in ASTM books and journals.

Professionally, Bucci has worked on many aspects of product development and related characterization techniques for Alcoa's aerospace products and has been the manager of Alcoa aerospace design building block programs. Before joining the Alcoa staff, he had been vice president of research for Del Research Corp.

Bucci graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, and he earned an M.S. in solid mechanics from Brown University in Providence, R.I., and a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Outside ASTM International, Bucci is a Fellow of ASM International, the Materials Information Society, and a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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