Manufacturing Industry

In Memoriam. (ASM News).

Advanced Materials & Processes, August, 2002

Francis D. Barberio, 78, Jordanville, N.Y., died 17 March. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in the Pacific during World War II. When he returned after the war, he joined Utica Corporation and stayed with it for the next 50 years. Barberio was involved with nondestructive testing, welding, forging, heat treating, and metallography.

Some of his career highlights include development of a nondestructive method of inspecting jet engine fan blades, development of a weld repair procedure for tip seals on Westinghouse gas turbine blades, and refinement of the melt process the produced the first jet engine blades. He retired in 1984 as senior metallurgist. Barberio was a Life Member, having joined ASM in 1950. John S. Markley, 82, Pittsburgh, Pa., died...

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