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• "Powder Alloying and Spheroidization"
  J.S. O’Dell, E.C. Schofield, R. Hickman, T.N. McKechnie, C. Power
  PM²Tec Conference
  Chicago, IL, June 13-17.

• "Material Properties of Vacuum Plasma Sprayed Cu-8Cr-4Nb for Liquid Rocket Engines"
  R. Hickman, T. McKechnie, R. Holmes
  37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE/ Joint Propulsion Conference
  Salt Lake City, UT, July 8-11.

• "Net Shape Fabrication of High Temperature Materials for Rocket Engine Components"
  R. Hickman, T. McKechnie, A. Agarwal
  37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE/ Joint Propulsion Conference
  Salt Lake City, UT, July 8-11.

• "Advances in Near Net Shape Forming and Coating of Erosion Resistant Ultra High Temperature Materials"
  Arvind Agarwal, Robert Hickman, Timothy McKechnie and J. Scott O'Dell
  Tri-Service Sponsored Symposium on Advancements in Heatshield Technology
  Huntsville, AL, May 10-11, 2000.

• "Vacuum Plasma Spray Forming Narloy-Z and Inconel 718 Components for Liquid Rocket Engines"
  T. McKechnie, R. R. Holmes, D.H. Burns
  Thermal Spray Research and Applications
  ASM International, Metals Park, Ohio, 1991, pages 363 368.

• "Metallurgy and Properties of Plasma Spray Formed Materials"
  T. McKechnie, Y.K. Liaw, F. Zimmerman, and R. Poorman
  Thermal Spray: International Advances in Coatings Technology
  ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, 1992, pages 839-845.

• "Vacuum Plasma Spray Applications on Liquid Fuel Rocket Engines"
  T. McKechnie, F.R. Zimmerman and M.A. Bryant
  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics paper #92-3527
  Washington, D.C.

• "Vacuum Plasma Spray Forming of NARloy-Z"
  T. McKechnie, R.M. Poorman, F.R. Zimmerman, and Y.K. Liaw
  Advanced Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion Technology 1992
  NASA Conference Publication 3174, Volume 1, pages 107-114.

• "Functionally Gradient Thermal Barrier Coatings: Design"
  T.McKechnie and M. I. Mendelson
  Functionally Gradient Materials, Ceramic Transactions, Volume 34
  American Ceramic Society, Westerville, Ohio, 1993, pages 417-424.

• "VPS Forming of Refractory Metals and Ceramics for Space Furnace Containment Cartridges"
  T. McKechnie, Y.K. Liaw, P. Krotz, R. Poorman, F. Zimmerman, and R. Holmes
  Thermal Spray Coatings: Research, Design and Applications
  ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, 1993, pp. 297-302.

• "Near Net Shape Forming of Ceramic Refractory Composite High Temperature Cartridges by VPS"
  T. McKechnie, F. Zimmerman, R. Holmes, P. Krotz, and Y. Liaw
  1994 Thermal Spray Industrial Applications, ASM International.

• "Continuous Spray Forming of Functionally Gradient Materials"
  T.McKechnie, E.H. Richardson, and R.D. Watson
  Advances in Thermal Spray Science and Technology
  ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1995, pp 737-742.

• "Enhanced Near-Net Shape Ceramic Refractory Composite High Temperature Cartridge By VPS Metallurgical Alloying Techniques"
  T. N. McKechnie, P.D. Krotz, Y.K.Liaw, R.R. Holmes, and F.R. Zimmerman
  Advances in Thermal Spray Science and Technology
  ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1995, pp 729-735.

• "Bell-Contoured, Parallel-Flow Nozzles for Reducing Overspray in Thermal Spray Processes"
  T. N. McKechnie, G.P. Beason, and F.R. Zimmerman
  Advances in Thermal Spray Science and Technology
  ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1995, pp 61-65.

• "Development of Tungsten Brush Structures for PFC Armor Applications"
  K.T. Slattery, T.N. McKechnie, B.C. Odegard, Jr., R.D. Watson
  Proceedings of IEEE/NPSS Symposium of Fusion Engineering
  6-10 October, 1997, San Diego.

• "Development of Near Net Shape Refractory Metal Components Utilizing Vacuum Plasma Spray"
  J. Scott O'Dell, Timothy N. McKechnie, and Richard R. Holmes
  Tungsten Refractory Metals and Alloys 4, Metal Powder Industries Foundation
  1998, Princeton, New Jersey. 159-169.

• "Development of High-Z Plasma Facing Components for ITER"
  R.D. Watson, K.T. Slattery, B.C. Odegard, Jr., C.H. Cadden, J. S. O'Dell, T. N. McKechnie, L. Tuchinskiy, Rautfy, E. Dyadko, S. Sastri, N. Gundaa, P.Karandikar
  Fusion Technology, Vol. 34, No. 3, Part 2
  November 1998, 443-453.

• "Laser Processing of Thermal Sprayed Beryllium"
  J. S. O'Dell, T. N. McKechnie, and J.E. Hanafee
  Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 13, No. 2, 213-227, 1998.

• "Beryllium and Tungsten Brush Armor for High Heat Flux Applications"
  J. S. O'Dell and T. N. McKechnie
  published & presented at 4th IEA International Workshop for Fusion
  Karlsruhe, Germany Sept. 15-17, 1999.

• "Spray Forming Aluminum Structures"
  A. Agarwal, T.N. McKechnie
  Advanced Materials and Processes, Vol. 159, No.5 , May 2001.

• "Net Shape Forming of Light Weight Optical Structures for Space Applications"
  Arvind Agarwal, Tim McKechnie and Darell Engelhaupt
  Optics Manufacturing for Dual-Use
  Huntsville, AL, February 14-15, 2001.

• "Near Net Shape Forming of Hafnium-Based Ceramic Components: Synthesis and Characterization"
  Arvind Agarwal, Tim McKechnie, Stuart Starrett and Mark. M. Opeka
  Elevated Temperature Coatings-4
  TMS 2001 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 2001.

• "Vacuum Plasma Spray Deposition of Refractory Hafnium Materials"
  Arvind Agarwal, Robert Hickman and Tim McKechnie
  25th Annual Conference on Composites, Materials and Structures, Ceramic, Metal and Carbon Composite Committee (CMC3)
  Cocoa Beach, January 22-25, 2001.