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WARREN F. SAVAGE
1922-1988
BY MERTON C. FLEMINGS
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF WILLIAM D. MANLY AND
NATHAN E. PROMISEL
Doc SAVAGE, an international leader in welding and high-
temperature testing, died on January 24, 198S, at the age of sixty-
s~x.
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in April
1981, Dr. Savage became the "chief mentor" to a major sector of
the world of welding metallurgy.
During his career, which stretched across four decades, Dr.
Savage published more than one hundrecl papers, mostly on
welding metallurgy. He was graduate adviser and research advis-
er for more than fifty masters and thirty Ph.D. students, includ-
ing the adviser to the president of Nippon Steel, the deputy
director of the British Welding Institute, four university profes-
sors, a department chairman, a clean of engineering, three
research directors, three chief welding metallurgists, and ap-
proximately forty welding engineers.
Dr. Savage developed a high-speed thermomechanical simu-
lator and founded a company, Duffers Associates, Inc., for
manufacturing and marketing this apparatus. He developed this
apparatus to evaluate the influence of rapid thermal cycles on
mechanical properties, such as those associated with affected
zones of fusion welds. More than eighty of these crevices, known
as "Gleebles," are currently in use around the world for evaluat-
ing short-time elevated temperature properties, simulating hot
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
rolling and forging operations, evaluatingweldability, and study-
ing solidification phenomena.
He also developed a metering system for measuring the
secondary current and weld time in electric resistance welding as
an aid to quality control of spot and seam welding. More than
three thousand of these metering systems are in use in automo-
tive and aircraft assembly plants to monitor weld quality, which
is vital to personnel safety. Dr. Savage held the patent on the
Verestraint Test, a key method of evaluating the weldability of
metals, which is used worldwide to provide a quantitative means
not only for determining weldability but also for optimizing
welding procedures.
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sties international reputation was amply demonstrated during
his many visits to the U.S.S.R. as a member of the U.S.\U.S.S.R.
Science Exchange Program. His reputation encouraged disclo-
sure of Soviet progress and developments in important and
novel welding techniques. He was invaluable in critically assess-
ing the merits and potentials ofthis (and otherforeign) informa-
tion important to future productivity and quality.
Dr. Savage earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees
while at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). After receiving
his B.Ch.E. in 1942, he worked for two years as metallurgical
engineer at Adirondack Foundries and Steel Company in Wa-
tervliet, New York. He then returned to RPI, receiving his
M.Met.E. in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1954. Simultaneously he was a
member of the teaching staff at RPI, as instructor from 1948 to
~ 952, and faculty member from 1952 onward. He became profes-
sor of metallurgy and director of welding research in July 1960.
Doc Savage received many awards during his illustrious ca-
reer. He became an honorary life member of the American
Welding Society (AWS) in 1970, and received from that society
its Clarence H. Jennings Memorial Award in 1978 and 1980 and
its award for the best research paper in 1977 and 1980. In 1986,
friends and former students of Dr. Savage established through
the AWS an award in his name to recognize his lifetime accom-
plishments and dedication in the field of welding metallurgy. He
was a fellow of the American Society of Metals and of the Welding
Institute. He was also a member of the Rensselaer Society of
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Engineers and an expert on the American Delegation of the
International Institute of Welding (TOW) and presented the ~ 980
IIW Hou~remont Lecture in ~980. Professor Savage's long-term
contributions to the field of welding research includecl the
development of scientific principles; the translation of these
principles to engineering, particularly for causes of weld crack-
ing and methods of eliminating cracking; educational activities
in technical societies; teaching of students; international societ-
ies leadership; and many other activities that reflect his foremost
standing in the field of welding research.
Dr. Savage retired in 1984 but continued to play an active role
in student advising and research activities for Rensselaer.
Throughout his career he was sought after as a consultant by
both government and industry. He server! as a member of the
U.S./U.S.S.R. Joint Commission on Welding and Special Elec-
trometallurgy, was Welding Adviser to the Energy Research and
DevelopmentAdministration's Priorities Committee on Materi-
als Research, and served as consultant to the U.S. Department of
Transportation and the Association of American Railroads.
It is noteworthy that, apart from his professional prowess, Dr.
Savage had a strongly humanistic side. He was a cordial, friendly,
approachable person en c! coup easily become enthusiastic in a
dialog on practically any subject. He was a delightful companion,
combining his professional astuteness with this social behavior.
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