
Ellen Troyanosky is a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Heat Treating Excellence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. They started at WPI after receiving their B.S. in Materials
Science and Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022. Their research focuses on the heat treatment and processing of steel.
Various in-situ methods can track realtime heat treatment response in bulk materials. This can aid material engineers in designing the most effective heat treatment procedures and processing methods. In-situ methods such as thermogravimetry (TG), differential thermal analysis (DTA), and dilatometry, offer capabilities to examine heat treatment behavior in real time, giving insight into the thermochemical mechanisms and the thermal behavior of steel.