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Daniel Balint

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Keywords:

  • Hydrogen in metals for nuclear and storage applications (e.g. delayed hydride cracking, hydrogen enhanced plasticity)
  • Dislocation plasticity in ionic crystals (as battery materials)
  • Mechanical recyling of plastics
  • Multilayer paint film evolution and failure under hygrothermal cycling
  • Irradiation hardening, strain softening and fracture in in zirconium alloys for PWR fuel pin cladding
  • Semi-analytical crack network modelling, integrity of auxetics, failure of thermal barrier and wear coatings
  • Elastodynamic discrete dislocation plasticity
  • Fatigue in titanium alloys, lifetime prediction of thermal barrier coatings
  • Discrete dislocation plasticity, size effects and defect-solute interactions
  • Metal forming methods and associated materials modelling
  • Environmental barrier coatings
Catrin Davies

Catrin Davies

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Keywords:

  • Fracture, fatigue, welding, residual stress, creep, creep crack growth
  • Microstructure prediction during forming, quenching
  • Process simulation, fracture analysis, resiidual stress prediction and measurement, material property characterisation
  • Optimisation of welding, quenching, rolling of metals (includes digital twins and residual stress prediction)
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Jun Jiang

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Keywords:

  • Robotic flexible rolling for incremental forming large sheet components
  • Solid state diffusion/pressure bonding dissimilar metals 
  • Thermal cycle fatigue of chips or DB joints
  • In-situ thermal-mechancial testing and characterization of dislocation density using EBSD
  • Superplastic forming modelling with Professor Jianguo Lin
  • Hybrid AM+radial forging
  • Diffusion bonding process and RS prediction

Cross-Faculty research centres

The Hamlyn Centre for Surgical Robotics