Researcher

 

Al Casagranda is a computational scientist in the Fuel Modeling and Simulation Department at INL. He has degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue University (B.S. – 1986, M.S. – 1988) and Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara (Ph.D. – 1993). He has used and developed finite element software for over 20 years in a variety of R&D fields including powder metallurgy, metal forming, tire analysis and ASME Section III code applications. Since joining INL in 2015, he has worked as a developer on the BISON fuel performance code.