People in the department
Professor Roy Faulkner
Professor of Physical Metallurgy BSc, PhD(Cambridge), DSc, FIM, CEng
Tel: 01509 223153
Fax: 01509 223949
Email: R.G.Faulkner@Lboro.ac.uk
Background
Professor Faulkner spent 4 years working at Inco Europe after gaining his PhD. He then joined Loughborough as a Lecturer. Since then he has been Programme Manager for the Undergraduate programmes; setting up the Materials Engineering programme in 1991. He has wide research interests in nuclear materials, high temperature materials, analytical electron microscopy, and modelling activities. He is Past-President of the East Midlands Metallurgical Society, Chairman of the IOM3 Publications Committee, and past Chairman of the IOM3 Younger Members Committee. He is also Chairman of the Midlands Microanalysis Group.Qualifications
- BSc
- PhD(Cambridge)
- DSc
- FIMMM, CEng
Outline of main research interests
- Stability of materials in nuclear fission and fusion environments
- Relation of grain boundary structure to properties
- Prediction of intergranular stress corrosion cracking behaviour
- High temperature materials Modelling of phase transformations
- Modelling of grain boundary segregation and precipitation
- Modelling of fatigue in steels
- Control of grain boundary strength through structural alteration
- Transmission electron microscopy Ultra high resolution microanalysis High spatial resolution microanalysis
- Modelling of phase stability in materials at high temperatures
Selected publications
- ‘Simulations of Precipitation in Ferritic Steels’, Simulations of Precipitation in Ferritic Steels’, Faulkner RG, Yin Y. Materials Science and Technology, 19[1], 91-98, (2003).
- ‘Grain Boundary Segregation and Fracture’ Faulkner RG, Zeitschrift fur Metallkunde, 96[10], 1213-1218, (2005).
- ‘Continuum Damage Mechanics Modelling based on Simulations of Microstructural Evolution Kinetics’ Faulkner RG, Materials Science and Technology, 22[8], 929-936, (2006).
- ‘Grain Boundary Impurity Segregation and Neutron Irradiation Effects in Ferritic Alloys’, Faulkner RG , Flewitt PEJ, Jones RB, Lu Z. Philosophical Magazine, 85[19], 2065-2099 (2005).
External roles and appointments
- Editorial board membership
Editorial Board Member of Materials Science Transactions.
Editoral Board Member of Diffusion and Defect Data.
- Learned society / Working Group engagement
Chair of Midlands Microanalysis Group.
Chair of Institute of Materials Publications Committee.
Leader of EPSRC Network on Grain Boundaries
Member of the Electricity Supply Research Committee
- Professional affiliations
DSc, FIMMM
- Visiting Titles
Professor at University of Seville
- Major conference organisation
ICFRM-12
- Invited presentations
Structural Integrity Meeting , Beijing, 2007
TMS meeting, Boston 2006
- Journal refereeing
Phil. Mag, MST, Materials Science Letters
Scripta Met
- International Collaborative Research
Working with Germany, Spain, Switzerland, USA, and France
- Commercialisation of research
Industrial research exploitation: Hf-containing steels
Recent consultancies: Rolls Royce, British Energy
Industry secondments:
Company directorships:
Patents / licences: Hf-containing steels
Full list of publications
Loughborough CIS Portal: Publications list