Glenn McRae - Professor

• Degrees: Ph.D., University of British Columbia, P.Eng.
• Phone: 613-520-2600 x 5690
• Email: gmcrae@mae.carleton.ca
• Office: 3150 ME

Research

Studies of hydrogen solubility and delayed hydride cracking in zirconium alloys; designing and fabricating a robust manual multileaf collimator to shape radiotherapy beams during Cobalt-60 cancer treatments in developing countries; solid state X-ray dosimetry for quality assurance of procedures to sterilize donated blood; coupling neutron-activation analysis and single photon emission computed tomography to make a non-invasive ‘nSPECT’ bone-cancer imager, and a calibration ‘flood’ source; development of new technique to measure impact damage in composite materials; development of new method to detect fingerprints on brass shell casings.

Application

Nuclear reactors; experimental studies are done at Chalk River Lab and Argonne National Laboratory; corrosion engineering; corrosion of rebar in concrete; accelerated testing of novel coatings used to protect aluminum beverage cans; sustainable energy engineering – translucent aerogels with high insulating values for skylights and windows.