Daniel Balint

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Keywords:

• Hydrogen in metals for nuclear and storage applications (e.g. delayed hydride cracking, hydrogen enhanced plasticity)
• Dislocation plasticity in ionic crystals (as battery materials)
• Mechanical recyling of plastics
• Multilayer paint film evolution and failure under hygrothermal cycling
• Irradiation hardening, strain softening and fracture in in zirconium alloys for PWR fuel pin cladding
• Semi-analytical crack network modelling, integrity of auxetics, failure of thermal barrier and wear coatings
• Elastodynamic discrete dislocation plasticity
• Fatigue in titanium alloys, lifetime prediction of thermal barrier coatings
• Discrete dislocation plasticity, size effects and defect-solute interactions
• Metal forming methods and associated materials modelling
• Environmental barrier coatings