Group Web Site: http://www.cmpe.ubc.ca
Microstructure engineering encompasses a broad range of activities with the goal of optimizing the structure and properties of metals and alloys. This is an exciting area which has seen tremendous advances in the past 10 years related, at least in part, to the incorporation of advanced computational approaches to materials science. Our approach stresses novel experimental approaches combined with the development of physically based models which are often fully integrated into continuum deformation or temperature models (i.e. FEM models). There still remain enormous opportunities in this field and we are actively seeking highly motivated graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
Projects
- Deformation and fracture of Mg alloys
- The UBC Hot Strip Mill Rolling Model
- Microstructure engineering of hot rolled advanced high strength steels
- Novel processing of Al-Mg-Si based alloys for automotive applications
- Advanced microstructure and property modelling for new multi-phase steels
- Efficient thermal processing for microstructural control of advance sheet metals and alloys
- New approaches to deformation and fracture of non-dilute multi-phase materials
- Microstructure evolution in Cu films for novel interconnects
- Microstructure evolution in deformed aluminum alloys
- Formability of stainless steels
Experimental Facilities
- DSI Gleeble 3500 Thermomechanical Test System
- DSI Hot Torsion Testing Machine
- Digitally controlled MTS hydraulic load frames (testing capability from 77 to 1000 K)
- Setaram Thermal Analysis Suite
- Advanced optical microscopy including quantitative image analysis
- Custom built low temperature resistivity rig
- Hitachi Scanning Electron Microscope
- FEI/Thermofisher Quanta Scanning Electron Microscope
- Zeiss Sigma Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope with EBSD, EDX, STEM and BSE.
- AMBER-X Plasma Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope with EBSD, EDX, STEM, and in situ deformation stages
Computational facilities and specialized software packages
- Compaq compute server for intensive numerical analysis
- 4 SGI work stations for visualization
- ABAQUS
- MICRESS
- Thermocalc
Faculty
Research Interests
Materials characterisation & microstructure, metallurgy, electron diffraction & microscopy, deformation, microstructure/property models, manufacturing
Research Interests
Multi-scale modelling of microstructure evolution, physical metallurgy of advanced high strength steels, Cu interconnects
Research Interests
Advanced aluminum alloys, high strengths, high formable steels. metal matrix composites, microstructure/property models
Research Interests
Prediction of microstructure and properties of engineering alloys through the use of experiments and modelling, predicting the correlation between the structure of alloys, at the microstructural and atomic scale, and their mechanical behaviour