Ratko Lucic
5325 W. Winnemac Ave, apt 1R
Chicago, IL 60630
Mobile: 773-727-0805
Fax: 773-205-1423
Day Phone: 773-205-1423
Email: rlucic123@yahoo.com

Country of citizenship: United States of America
Veterans' Preference: No
Contact Current Employer: Yes

AVAILABILITY
Job Type: Permanent
Work Schedule: Full Time

WORK EXPERIENCE
Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering 9/1988 - 2/2001
Kraljevo, Serbia Yugoslavia Salary: 20,000 USD Per Year
Hours per week: 40
Assistant Professor
Taught classes in Engineering Materials, and Welding Technology to first year students.
Made contributions in both educational and technological domains.
Compiled three books, see Publications forward.
In the monograph - Crystallography of Martensitic Transformation, both theoretical and practical study was conducted into structural features of martensitic transformations in low-carbon alloys.
In the textbook Materials Science and Engineering all five types of materials have been included and described: metallic, plastic, ceramic, electronic, and composite. The book was compiled predominantly from the newest American sources.

In the handbook - Welding Skills and Technology (a translation of the American book), more than 100 welding processes were included and described starting from the simplest manual ones to the most sophisticated – intelligent welding robots controlled by computer. This book, is one of the best ones on welding technology in America, and maybe in the world. All aspects of this multitude of welding process, as are chemical, physical, mechanical, metallurgical, technological, passed through my head not only one but many times. The translation was unique achievement, no one in the space of former Yugoslavia, with more than 22,000 000 citizens, did similar one at the field of welding technology.
Published more articles in domestic journals with topics from welding technology, for example, Physics of burning gases, Tehnika, ¾ (1992).
Led teams of 10 researchers in various metallurgical projects as assigned by company IMK "14.October" in Krusevac, and ""Magnohrom"" in Kraljevo, Serbia.
For example, it was increased wear resistance of tools for forming firebricks at the industrial plant the "Magnohrom". The application of low-temperature ion-nitriding on working surfaces of the tools gave good results.
It was performed the selection of the steel with small hardenability for bushings of shovel loader tracks in IMK "14.October" Company. The bushings made of this steel after hardening and low-temperature tempering had better mechanical properties and wear resistance than the same bushings made of carbonized steel after corresponding heat treatment, as it was case in the previous production. (Contact Supervisor: Yes, Supervisor's Name: Nedic Novak, Supervisor's Phone: 011381-36-336763)

IMK "14.October" Company 4/1982 - 8/1988
Krusevac, Serbia Yugoslavia Salary: 15,000 USD Per Year
Hours per week: 40
Project Manager for Materials
Led teams of 10 researchers in various metallurgical projects, concentrating on earth-moving machines, i.e., bulldozers, loaders, dump trucks. rollers
For example, it was performed the selection of a steel for production bulldozers track links at the IMK. The new selected steel was based on both qualitative and economic aspects of production of bulldozer undercarriages.
It was performed the selection of a steel for lamellas of the side clutches of track bulldozers. It was substituted an imported steel with the other domestic one. (Contact Supervisor: Yes, Supervisor's Name: Gligorije Gligorijevic, Supervisor's Phone: 011381-37-421502)

Max Planck Institute 9/1980 - 3/1982
Stuttgart, Germany Germany Salary: 25,000 USD Per Year
Hours per week: 40
Researcher
As a researcher, granted by Humboldt Research Fellowship, participated on multi-national research teams in Materials Science with professors from Germany, the U.S., and Sweden.
Familiarized myself with crystallographic orientation of mono-crystals by applying the X - technique, production of bicrystals with definite misorientations, scanning microscopy, and so on. Among other accomplishes, as a co-author published three articles, see Publications forward, under numbers 3-5.
In the article - Observation of Fracture Surface Chemistry on Cu-0.5 at % Sb Bicrystals it was found out that for a given segregation heat treatment, the fracture mode of Cu-0.5 at% bicrystals is dependent upon intercrystalline misorientation.
In the article - Diffusion Along Migrating and Stationary Grain Boundaries, it was found out that the diffusion rate determined for migrating grain boundaries are of the same order of magnitude as the value for stationary grain boundaries (in the alloy Al-28 at % Zn).
In the article - Applicability of SIMS in the Study of Grain Boundary Diffusion, it was developed a new technique for studying diffusion. The technique employs secondary ion mass spectrograph (SIMS) for evaluation of the impurity concentration distributions. (Contact Supervisor: Yes, Supervisor's Name: Wolfgang Gust, Supervisor's Phone: 01149-73456484)

IMK "14.October" Company 9/1970 - 9/1979
Krusevac, Serbia Yugoslavia Salary: 15,000 USD Per Year
Hours per week: 40
Superintedent
Supervised all technological and construction operations of 100-person Forging Shop in the beginning of this period. Supervised the Control Department for Engineering Materials of 70 skill workers.
The IMK produced more than 2,000 different earth-moving machines (bulldozers, loaders, rollers, dumpers) per year.
As a metallurgical engineer supervised chemical, metallographic, mechanical and technological properties of base materials, NDT, as well as corresponding properties of welded parts according to the technical norms. Further, introduced into the technology the selection of steels on the basis of its hardenabilities instead of its chemical analyses. Made substitution of more than 100 different sophisticated high strength low-alloy steels from Western Europe with domestic more-alloy steels, produced in former Yugoslavia. These substitutions were in connection with the license for production of new very large track shovel loaders at the IMK.
As a researcher studied special Fe-As alloys and published two articles in Journal of Materials Science, see Publications forward, under numbers 1 and 2.
In the article - Diffusion in iron-arsenic alloys it was conducted the measuring of the distribution of arsenic in various diffusion couples of high purity iron-arsenic alloys by micro-probe analyzer.
In the article - Martensitic Transformation in Iron-Arsenic Alloys, a study was conducted into the structural feature of martensitic transformation in iron-arsenic alloys. The martensitic substructural units were lath shaped. The orientation relationships between adjacent lath were determined.

Steel Works 1/1965 - 9/1970
Niksic, Montenegro Salary: 14,000 USD Per Year
Hours per week: 40
Project Manager
Managed rolling technology for different qualities of steels and different assortment of steel products at the Intermediate Rolling Mill. Also managed heat treatment of mechanical parts intended for maintenance of equipment in the Works.
The Steel Works produced more than 50,000 tones of rolled bars per year.
As a researcher conducted an investigation completely in the production conditions to find out the primary cause of ferrite-pearlite banding in the low-alloys steels. The cause of this bad structure was determined and it is the chemical heterogeneity which occurs during the segregation in the process of steel solidification.


EDUCATION
Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy
Belgrade, Serbia Yugoslavia
Doctorate - 3/1978
500 class hours
Major: Phase Transformations in Metallic Alloys
Minor: Microstrutures in Metals
10.00 out of 10.00
Relevant Coursework, Licensures and Certifications:
Title of the thesis is: Martensitic and Bainitic Transformation and Diffusion of Arsenic in Fe-As Alloys. Parts of these comprehensive researches were published in Journal of Materials Science, see Publications forward, under numbers 1 and 2. For the investigations were used modern techniques as are: micro-probe analyzer, optical and electronic microscopy.
It was determined equations for the diffusion coefficients of arsenic in gamma- and alpha-iron.
It was found that the substructure of the iron-arsenic martensite has the form of laths and within the lath boundaries a network of dislocation cell walls exists.
The doctorate was evaluated and certified by World Education Services, Inc. in New York, the U.S.

Faculty of Technology
Ljubljana, Slovenia Slovenia
Master's Degree - 2/1970
600 class hours
Major: Metal Science
Minor: Theory of elesticity and plasticity, technology of metallic materials forming
4.20 out of 5.00
Relevant Coursework, Licensures and Certifications:
Studied five coursworks.
In the coursework:Selected chapters from mathematics - studied among other things the following topics: matrix calculus, integral calculus of the most complexity, differential equations of different species, from simple to very complicated ones.
In the coursework:The theory of elasticity and plasticity, technology of metallic materials forming - used tensor calculus for all estimations. Made calculus of stresses and strains at points of the strained body, in elastic, and plastic state. Estimations of destroying solid metallic body loaded by determined forces. Application of this theory to find a clue for different aspect of metallic materials forming.
The degree was evaluated and certified by World Education Services, Inc. in New York.


Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy
Belgrade, Serbia Yugoslavia
Bachelor's Degree - 12/1964
3735 class hours
Major: Metal Forming in Plastic State
Minor: Extraction of Iron and Steel Making
8.63 out of 10.00
Relevant Coursework, Licensures and Certifications:
The title of graduation thesis is: Determination of deformation resistance at cold rolling of the transfomer sheet steel. It was conducted the determination of deformation resistance at cold rolling of the transfomer sheet steel depending on previous hot rolling temperature of the same sheet. The testing was conducted with special modern devices - measuring doses which converted small elastic deformations into electric impulses. These results were discussed in terms of corresponding microstructures.
The degree was evaluated and certified by World Education Services, Inc. in New York, the U.S.

LANGUAGES
German
Spoken: novice
Written: novice
Read: Intermediate

Russian
Spoken: novice
Written: novice
Read: Intermediate

Serbian
Spoken: Advanced
Written: Advanced
Read: Advanced

AFFILIATIONS
Alexandar von Humboldt Foundation Member

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Articles Published in American and English Journals:
1. B.I. Bozic and R.J. Lucic, Diffusion in Iron Alloys, Journal of Materials Science, 11 (1976): 887.
2. B.I. Bozic and R.J. Lucic, Martensitic Transformation in Iron-Arsenic Alloys, Journal of Materials Science, 12 (1977): 751.
3. T.H. Chang, W. Gust, L.A. Heldt, M.B. Hintz, S. Hofmann, R.J. Lucic, and B. Predel, Observation of Fracture Surface Chemistry on Cu-0.5 at % Sb Bicrystals, Scripta Metallurgica, 16 (1982): 1437.
4. W. Gust, H.B. Hintz, A Lodding, R.J. Lucic, and B. Predel, Diffusion Along Migrating and Stationary Grain Boundaries: The Al-Zn System, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol. 21 (1984).
5. W. Gust, H.B. Hintz, A. Lodding, R.J. Lucic, H. Odelius, B. Predel, and U. Roll, Applicability of SIMS in the Study of Grain Boundary Diffusion, Journal de Physique, Colloque C 4, Supplement au No. 4 Tome 46, April 1985, p. C 4 - 475.
Books Published:
1. R.J. Lucic, Crystallography of Martensitic Transformations, Monograph. Vuk Karadzic: Paracin, 1993.
2. R.J. Lucic, Materials Science and Engineering, Textbook. Vuk Karadzic: Paracin, 1994.
3. D. Smith, Welding Skills and Technology. McGraw-Hill: New York, 1986. Translated from English into Serbian by R.J. Lucic.
R.J. Lucic has also done several expert works for domestic industrial firms and more than 40 articles in domestic journals.

REFERENCES
Wolfgang Gust Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany Emeritus Professor Dr
Phone Number: 01149 - 73456484
Email Address: info@bulau-gust.de
Reference Type: Professional

Walter Pravica Wright College, Chicago, Professor Dr
Phone Number: 773-481-8385
Reference Type: Professional

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Experience Laboratory Investigator - for metallurgical testing, qualitative and quantitative application of optical microscope, mechanical testing, failure analysis and nondestructive inspection. Applies electron microscope and other modern techniques for investigation of metals and its alloys.
Skilled Technologist -- knowledge about metals and processes, ensuring quality of material throughout manufacturing stages from raw materials to finished products. Expert with casting processes; expandable-mold and permanent-mold casting; bulk deformation processes; rolling and forging; welding, oxy-fuel gas welding, and arc-welding; and certification of welders.
Scientific Researcher and Developer - of manufacturing high-quality cost effective products. Metallic materials expert of mechanical parts and materials substitution. Apply computer and Internet for research of contemporary trends in materials development and in the integration of manufacturing activities.