Dr. Sam Sham is the Program Leader of Advanced Reactor Materials in the Applied Materials Division of the Energy & Global Security Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory. His technical specialty is in deformation and failure of advanced materials and structural mechanics technologies for high temperature reactors. He is the Technology Area Lead of the advanced materials R&D program for the Office of Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART), Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Department of Energy (DOE). The R&D portfolio cross-cuts the three reactor campaigns on Fast Reactors, Gas-cooled Reactors and Molten Salt Reactors in ART. In addition, Sham leads the DOE-NE international R&D efforts on advanced materials and code qualification for sodium-cooled fast reactor structural applications.

 

Sham is a member of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel (BPV) Committee on Construction of Nuclear Facility Components (III), and BPV III Executive Committee. He chairs BPV III Subgroup on Elevated Temperature Design, which is responsible for the development and maintenance of design rules for nuclear components in elevated temperature service. He was elected ASME Fellow in 2000.

 

Before he joined Argonne in 2015, Dr. Sham was a Distinguished R&D Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, held senior positions with AREVA NP Inc. and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, and was a tenured faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He holds a B.Sc. (First Class Honour) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (Mechanics of Solids and Structures) as well as an M.S. (Applied Mathematics) from Brown University.