Dr. Tim Foecke

Foecke is a metallurgist whos area of expertise is failure analysis and fracture of metals. He completed his PhD in Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, studying the basic mechanisms of fracture in materials. He joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD in 1991 as a Staff Materials Scientist, and in 2001 became an Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Foecke began research on Titanic in 1996, and has been involved in half a dozen television programs on the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and the Discovery Science Channel on this and other work. In addition to Titanic, Foecke has worked on preservation of the wreck of USS Arizona, USS Monitor and CSS Hunley, consulted with the Architect of the Capitol on preservation techniques for the dome of the US Capitol Building, assisted the NY Dept. of Transportation on a strength analysis of the Brooklyn Bridge, participated in the NIST World Trade Center collapse analysis, and has worked on disasters for the Office of Pipeline Safety, the National Transportation Safety Board, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He currently resides in Damascus, MD.