17 datasets found

This work aims to understand the precipitation behaviour of nanoscale precipitates in 17-4PH grade martensitic stainless steel as a function of aging time and temperature.17-4PH...

Hexagonal close packed (HCP) alloys have a wide range of industrial uses, including within the nuclear industry and for aerospace applications.The properties of HCP alloys are...

Strain-relief cracking is a generic creep failure mode that has been observed in many welded stainless steel structures operating at high temperatures in UK nuclear power plant....

Duplex stainless steels (DSS), containing both austenite and ferrite phases, are attractive materials owing to a combination of high strength and excellent corrosion resistance...

The key objectives are to study creep cavitation (formation of voids at high temperature) in pure copper. Cavities forming in polycrystalline materials leads to a drop in the...

Hexagonal close packed (HCP) alloys have a wide range of industrial uses, including within thenuclear industry and for aerospace applications.The properties of HCP alloys are...

Duplex stainless steels have an attractive combination of high strength and corrosion resistance, making them the natural choice in applications such as e.g. pressurised...

Intergranular stresses, generated during cyclic loading of AISI type 316H stainless steel can significantly affect the creep deformation of this material. However,...

Martensitic transformations are solid-state transformations on completion of which a hard phase having very high dislocation density is obtained. Despite often being an...

The aim of the present proposal is to determine the influence of the different martensite transformation regimes (either stress-assisted or strain-induced) on the proceeding...

Martensitic transformations are solid-state transformations on completion of which a hard phase having very high dislocation density is obtained. Despite often being an...

This experiment aims to study the strain induced transformation mechanism at temperatures between room temperature and low temperatures, and at extremely low temperatures. These...

Producing a steel alloy that has both high and low temperature capabilities is non-trivial. However, recently a novel maraging steel has been developed that has shown excellent...

Creep lifetime of high temperature power plant materials are significantly affected due to predicted and unpredicted cyclic loading during plant operation. Our previous study...

Electrical steels are a type of Fe-Si steel used as transformer cores in the energy industry. Due to a welcomed drive for renewable energies, the understanding of soft magnetic...

This experiment aims to study the strain induced transformation mechanism at temperatures between room temperature and low temperatures, and at extremely low temperatures. These...

Using a combination of state-of-the-art multi-scale computational models and advanced experimental analysis using small angle neutron scattering (SANS), atom probe tomography...