// Ph.D. Candidate · Rolla, Missouri
Johnson
Alabi.
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Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Missouri S&T. I build multiphysics models for steel heat treatment, validate them against industrial data, and bridge the gap between lab-scale experiments and production-line decisions.
5+
Years Research
4.00
Ph.D. GPA
6+
Conferences
2+
Journal Papers
May 2027
// About Me
At the intersection of modeling, materials, and manufacturing
I'm Johnson Alabi — a mechanical engineer and Ph.D. candidate at Missouri University of Science and Technology, affiliated with the Peaslee Steel Manufacturing Research Center. My research extends multiphysics modeling for hardenability characterization of large-diameter steel bars.
I collaborate with Nucor Steel Memphis on industrial continuous quenching applications, bridging laboratory Jominy tests with production-line heat treatment decisions.
Beyond the lab, I build software tools — from AI-assisted research platforms to data pipelines — because I believe good engineering should scale, whether through validated models or usable products.
// Research & Scholarship
Publications & Conferences
Peer-reviewed work in multiphysics modeling, heat treatment, and materials characterization — bridging computational mechanics with industrial steel processing.
Multiphysics Modeling
Coupled thermal-mechanical-metallurgical FEM for quench-and-temper processing of low-alloy steels.
Inverse Heat Transfer
Calibration workflows for industrial quenching lines using instrumented dummy bars and production data.
Phase Transformation
Koistinen-Marburger martensite kinetics + Avrami diffusion models for hardness prediction.
Journal Articles & Manuscripts
Multiphysics Simulation and Experimental Validation of Phase Transformation and Hardness in Jominy End-Quenched Low-Alloy Steels
Alabi, J. S., et al.
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2026
A multiphysics approach for scaling the Jominy end-quench test to continuously quenched bars: Low-alloy steels
Alabi, J. S., et al.
Under Review
Effect of normalizing treatment on the microstructure and hardness of 4330V quenched and tempered, hot-rolled, continuously cast, large-diameter bar
Heidari, E., Alabi, J. S., et al.
Under Review
Conference Proceedings
Influence of quenchant temperature on microstructure and hardness in Jominy end-quench tests for AISI 4135 steel
Alabi, J. S., et al.
Heat Treating Conference (QDE 2025), ASM, Vancouver, Canada
Impact of quenching intensity conditions on microstructure and hardenability of low-alloy steel using a finite element model
Alabi, J. S., et al.
IFHTSE World Congress and IMAT, Cleveland, OH, 2024
Conference Presentations
// What I've Built
Selected Projects
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