Imperial College London

Dr T Ben Britton

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Materials

Visiting Reader
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 2634b.britton Website

 
 
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Location

 

B301Bessemer BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Overview

We work to characterise materials, often developing new in-situ mechanical testing approaches and electron microscopy methods.

Research Team

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Post Doctoral Research Team:

Jun Jiang - Micro-mechanical tests in aerospace materials

PDRA supported by AVIC BIAM

Co-supervised with Professor Fionn Dunne

 

Tea-Sun (Terry) Jun - Micro-pillar deformation of Ti624X alloys for aerospace

PDRA supported by HexMat

Co-supervised with Professor Fionn Dunne


PhD Studentships:

 

Giorgio Sernicola (2014-2017) - Diamond Metal Cutting Tools

Co-supervised with Dr Finn Giuliani, working with Element 6

 

Suki Adande (2014-2017) - Coating for turbine blades

PhD studentship supported by AVIC BIAM.

 

Vivian Tong (2013 - 2016) - Deformation of Zirconium Alloys

Self funded PhD student with additional support from Rolls Royce plc

 

Masters Students:

Natalia Skwierawska (2013) - Stress corrosion cracking in Alloy 600

MSc Nuclear Engineering research project student

Co-supervised with Dr Mark Wenman

 


Collaborators

Professor Angus Wilkinson, University of Oxford

Guest Lectures

Probing micro-mechanical deformation behaviour with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction, Cavendish, Cambridge, UK, 2014

Micromechanical testing of Zirconium Alloys, HMS Sultan, UK, 2013

Probing deformation behaviour with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction and micro-mechanical testing, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2013

Resolving deformation mechanisms in titanium alloys with high resolution electron backscatter diffraction, University of Pennsilvania, PA, USA, 2011

Research Staff

Jiang,J

Research Student Supervision

McNamara,F, Hydride Reorientation in Zr

Moss-Mccrory,T, Stress Corrosion Cracking of Ni Alloys

Naunheim,Y, Efficient Crystal Plasticity Modelling

Ren,B, Micromechanical testing of stainless steel

Sernicola,G, Fracture of Brittle Materials

Tong,V, Analysis of Heterogeneous Deformation in HCP Metals