User:Slinky Puppet

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I am a materials scientist by training and I just got my PhD studying Friction Stir Welding. I now work with neutrons and synchrotron X-rays, mainly in the determination of residual stresses in components.

My areas of expertise are:

• Welding techniques - particularly Friction stir welding (this page is so bad I can't face it!)
• Metallurgy with emphasis on aluminium alloys and a particular interest in
  • recrystallisation/recovery
  • influence of precipitates on mechanical properties
• Mechanical properties of materials
• Crystallography
• Determintion of stresses in components (residual and applied) using diffraction methods
• Energy dispersive diffraction techniques

Future work includes:

• Nuclear materials
• Influence of high temperatures and complex thermo-mechanical cycles

If I talk about anything else it is unlikely to be an area I am educated in (unless it's the school of life)

[edit] My articles

• Recrystallization (metallurgy)
• Recovery (metallurgy)
• Grain growth
• Geometric Dynamic Recrystallization
• Zener pinning
• Grain boundary
• Strain scanning - new

[edit] My references

• RD Doherty (2005). "Primary Recrystallization", in RW Cahn et al: Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology. Elsevier, 7847–7850. 
• RD Doherty; DA Hughes; FJ Humphreys; JJ Jonas; D Juul Jenson; ME Kassner; WE King; TR McNelley; HJ McQueen; AD Rollett (1997). "Current Issues In Recrystallisation: A Review". Materials Science and Engineering A238: 219–274. 
• HM Chan; FJ Humphreys; (1984). "The recrystallisation of aluminium-silicon alloys containing a bimodal particle distribution". Acta Metallurgica 32 (2): 235–243. 
• FJ Humphreys, M Hatherly (2004). Recrystallisation and related anealing phenomena. Elsevier.