Frank Gayle
Position
Deputy Chief of the Metallurgy Division
Material Science and Engineering Laboratory
Task
Forensic Analysis of Structural Steel
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985), Ph.D., Metallurgy
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Dr. Frank W. Gayle is leading the team of experts addressing the steel forensics aspects of NIST's investigation of the World Trade Center collapses. His team is evaluating steel recovered from the WTC site to determine its quality, mechanical properties, and behavior under impact and high temperature conditions.
Dr. Gayle currently serves as Deputy Chief of the Metallurgy Division in the NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory and as Group Leader for the Division's Materials Structure and Characterization Group. His work at NIST has covered a range of metallurgical research addressing metals characterization and structure-property relationships. He holds several patents and has published over 50 archival research articles.
Dr. Gayle holds a Doctor of Science degree in Metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985). He also earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (1975) and a Master of Science in Materials Science (1976) from Duke University. Dr. Gayle spent 11 years in industry at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and Reynolds Metals Company in the field of alloy development for aerospace applications prior to coming to NIST. |
