Professor Briant's research interests have centered on mechanical properties of materials and how these properties can be explained by various microstructural elements. More recently he has begun to examine issues in engineering design and the evolution of innovative technological systems. His primary current interest is in the diffusion of technologies.

Professor Briant is works in research areas that examine engineering design and the evolution of innovative technological systems and how they diffuse into societies.    He also seeks to provide an education for the public engineer, that is an engineer who is technically extremely well-versed and who is also concerned about the societal impact and public understanding of engineering achievements.
 

Agarwal, S., Briant, C.L., Hector, L.G., Jr., and Chen, Y-L, “Friction Stir Processed AA5182-O and AA6111-T4 Aluminum Alloys.  Part 1:  Electron Backscattered Diffraction Analysis,” J. Materials Engineering Performance, 16, 391 (2007).

Agarwal, S., Briant, C.L., Krajewski, P.E., Bower, A.F., and Taleff, E.M., “Experimental Validation of Two-Dimensional Finite Element Method for Simulating Constitutive Response of Polycrystals During High Temperature Plastic Deformation,”  J. Materials Engineering and Performance, 16, 170 (2007).

C. L. Briant and K.S. Kumar, "Hydrogen Embrittlement of Grade 2 and Grade 3 Titanium in 6% Sodium Chloride Solution," Corrosion, 54, 553 (1998).

R. Bai, C. L. Briant, D.C. Paine, and J.R. Beresford, "Investigation of the Annealing Texture Evolution in Hafnium," Metall. and Materials Trans. A, 29A, 757 (1998).

O. Horacsek, C. L. Briant, and K. Horacsek, "Effect of Heating Rate on the Recrystallization Behavior of Doped Tungsten," High Temperature Materials and Processes, 16, 15 (1997).

C. L. Briant, G. Unsal, and R.B. Kaspar, "Grain Growth in Tungsten Rod," Interface Science, 4, 81 (1996).

C. L. Briant, "Solid Solubility and Grain Boundary Segregation," Phil. Mag. Letters, 73, 345 (1996).

Member of Columbia University Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, Honorary Engineering Society

Winner of the 1977 Robert Lansing Hardy Gold Medal awarded by the
Metallurgical Society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. This award is given by TMS-AIME to a metallurgist under 30 years of age who shows exceptional promise

Winner of the 1979 Rossiter W. Raymond Award of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. This award is given for the best paper written by an author under 33 years of age and published by AIME during a calendar year.

Winner of the 1980 Alfred Noble Prize presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers for the best paper published by these societies by a young author

Winner of the 1980 Geisler Award presented by the Eastern New York American Society for Metals to an outstanding young metallurgist

Selected by Science Digest as one of the 100 Most Promising Young Scientists in America, December, 1984

Overseas visiting researcher, AERE Harwell, England, October-December, 1984

Winner of the General Electric Company Coolidge Fellowship, 1985

Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,England, 1987-88

Visiting Scientist, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Technical Physics, Budapest, Hungary, June-August, 1991

Fellow of ASM International, elected 1994

Otis E. Randall University Professor at Brown University, 2000 - 2017

Listed in the Highly Cited Authors in Materials Science

Fellow of TMS, 2006

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, Class of 2010

Member of American Society of Metals, International
Member of American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME)

Member of the National Academy of Engineering