People in the department
Dr Aya Suzuki-Shin
Research Associate of Professor Rachel Thomson MEng (Japan), PhD (Cambridge)
Tel: 01509 223335
Fax: 01509 223949
Email: A.Suzuki-Shin@Lboro.ac.uk
Background
Aya read for a BEng in Materials Scinence and Engineering at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan between 1998-2002. She then carried out her MEng study at the same institution from 2002 to 2004. After her MEng study, she conducted her PhD at the University of Cambridge between 2005-2009, specifically concerning to microstructural evolution of coated turbine blade materials. She became a post-doctoral researcher of National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan between 2009-2010, and joined the Department of Materials in 2011 as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad working with Prof. Rachel Thomson.Qualifications
- BEng, Materials Science and Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
- MEng (Hons), Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
- PhD, Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
Outline of main research interests
Microstructural evolution, high temperature oxidation of coated and uncoated turbine blade materials, and their characterisation using advanced electron microscopy, such as EBSD.
Recent publications
- A. S. Suzuki, K. Kawagishi, T. Yokokawa, et al.: “A New Oxide Morphology Map: Initial Oxidation Bahevior of Ni-base Single Crystal Superalloys”, Met. Mat. Trans. A, accepted, 17 Jun 2011
- A. S. Suzuki, C. M. F. Rae, R. A. Hobbs and H. Murakami, “ Secondary Reaction Zone Formations in Pt-Aluminised fourth generation Ni-base single crystal superalloys”, Adv. Mat. Res., Vol.278, 2011, 78-83
- A. S. Suzuki, K. Kawagishi, T. Yokokawa, et al.: “Prediction of initial oxidation behavior of Ni-base single crystal superalloys by regression analysis”, Scr. Mat., 65, 2011, 49-52
Selected publications
13 papers have been published from 2002 to 2010, including:
- A. Suzuki, C. M. F. Rae, et al. : “Secondary Reaction Zones in coated Ni-base single crystal blade alloys”, Superalloys 2008, Edited by R. C. Reed, et al., TMS, Pittsburgh, 2008, 777-786
- A. Suzuki, Y. Wu, et al. : "Oxidation Behavior of Pt-Ir Modified Aluminised Coatings on Ni-base Single Crystal Superalloy TMS-82+", Oxi. Met., Vol. 68, Issue 1-2 (August), 2007, 53-64
- A. Suzuki, F. Wu, H. Murakami, et al.: ”High Temperature Characteristics of Ir-Ta alloys as Bond Coat Materials”, Sci. Tech. Adv. Mat., Vol. 5, Issues 5-6, 2004, 555-564