• Deformation and Fracture Mechanisms in Nanolayered Materials

• Sheet Metal Formability Standardized Tests

• Metallurgy of the RMS Titanic

• Bulk Observation of Dislocations from Cracks in Alkali Halide Single Crystals

Expertise:

• Fracture in Materials (Metals, Ceramics, Composites, Polymers)

• Deformation Mechanisms

• Structure / Property Relationships

• Failure Analysis and Forensic Metallurgy

• Historical Metallurgy

Experimental Techniques:

• Mechanical Testing, Acoustic Emission

• SEM, TEM, SPM, Optical Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction (incl. in situ testing)

• Finite Element Analysis

• Digital Image Processing, Simulation and Reconstruction