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William Hosford

Professor Emeritus

whosford@umich.edu

2118 HH Dow

T: (734) 764-3371

Education:

B.S., Lehigh University, 1950.

M.E., Yale University, 1951.

Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959.

Research Interests:

Quantitative relationship between anisotropic yielding behavior and crystallographic texture. Forming of sheet metal and dependence of sheet formability on plastic anisotropy. Forming limit diagrams; experiments and theory. Formation of deformation textures in bcc metals, spheroidization of medium carbon steels