Latest Papers

Crystal Plasticity Analysis of Micro-Deformation, Lattice Rotation and Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density
F.P.E. Dunne, R. Kiwanuka, A.J. Wilkinson
Proc. Royal Society A, (2012), available on line from 4th May 2012
doi:10.1098/rspa.2012.0050

Rapid Nondestructive Analysis of Threading Dislocations inWurtzite Materials Using the Scanning Electron Microscope
G Naresh-Kumar, B Hourahine, PR Edwards, AP Day, A Winkelmann, AJ Wilkinson, PJ Parbrook, G England and C Trager-Cowan
Physical Review Letters, (2012), vol. 108, 135503
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.135503

Local Deformation Patterns in Ti-6Al-4V under tensile, fatigue and dwell fatigue loading
PD Littlewood and AJ Wilkinson
International Journal of Fatigue, (2012), available on line from 12 March 2012
doi:10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2012.03.001


Nanoindentation and micro-mechanical fracture toughness of electrodeposited nanocrystalline Ni–W alloy films
DEJ Armstrong, ASMA Haseeb, SG Roberts, AJ Wilkinson, and K Bade
Thin Solid Films, (2012), vol. 520, 4369–4372
doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2012.02.059

High resolution electron backscatter diffraction measurements of elastic strain variations in the presence of larger lattice rotations
TB Britton and AJ Wilkinson
Ultramicroscopy, (2012), vol. 114, 82-95
doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.01.004

News

Poster Prize
Ben Britton received the best poster prize at the recent RMS EBSD 2012 Conference at the NPL. It details EBSD mapping of stress and GND density near a slip band-grain boundary interaction in Ti.
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Dislocation Densities in Ti alloys
Philip and Ben's work on GNDs in Ti-6Al-4V has been published. see some results here.
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Micro-cantilever size effects
Jicheng has been working on size effects in Ti alloy micro-cantilevers
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Meet us at

EBSD 2012 - Microanalysis Soc
CMU, Pittsburgh, PA 19-21 June 2012
- AJW presentation on 'Strain Mapping with EBSD: A Review of Advances and Challenges'


Int Conf on Strength of Materials
Bengaluru, India, 19-24 August 2012
- the group have submitted several abstracts on micro-cantilever testing and EBSD strain mapping


Dislocations 2012
Budapest, Hungary, 27-31 August 2012
- the group will be submitting several abstracts