Jay Jira

Distinguished Service Award

April 2007, Orlando

The Composite Materials Handbook (CMH-17) is pleased to recognize Mr Jay Jira for his distinguished service to the Metal Matrix Composite (MMC) working group. Jay has been a member of the working group since 1995 and has contributed greatly to the direction and organization of the handbook including authoring numerous sections.

Jay prepared and submitted a significant and thorough data set on titanium matrix composites (TMC) to the handbook and has greatly improved the standard formats in which data is presented. Jay has spent most of his professional career supporting the development of TMCs. He has advanced the usage of TMCs through his research on understanding fatigue crack growth behavior in these materials by introducing and adopting the “crack bridging” concept as a viable approach in modeling crack growth behavior in continuously reinforced TMCs.

Jay’s professional career as a Materials Research Engineer in the Metals Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory has led efforts in developing and verifying life-prediction models on a host of aerospace structural materials. These activities have provided valuable insight to the MMC working group in understanding TMC behavior and in the discussion of mechanical property data in the handbook.

On behalf of the entire MMC Working Group, it is my pleasure to present the Composite Materials Handbook Distinguished Service Award to Mr Jay Jira.

Mr John Kleek (left) and Mr Jay Jira (right)

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