Summary
Fionn Dunne is Chair in Micromechanics. His research is in the fundamentals of deformation and fracture particularly relating to hcp polycrystal and Ni alloys and includes experiment, characterisation, computational crystal plasticity and discrete dislocation plasticity. Applications include micro-deformation, fatigue crack nucleation, microstructure-sensitive crack growth, and polycrystal sonics for NDE.
He has published over 180 research papers and is co-author of Introduction to Computational Plasticity, OUP, 2005. He is a consultant to Rolls-Royce, a member of their Core Materials Working Group, served as a member of the MOD's Research Programmes Group and was a Royal Society Industry Fellow with Rolls-Royce. He was Royal Academy of Engineering/Rolls-Royce Research Chair 2015-20. He led the EPSRC programme grant Heterogeneous Mechanics in Hexagonal Alloys across Length and Time Scales (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/hexmat), directed the Imperial Rolls-Royce Nuclear University Technology Centre (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/rrnuclearutc), and currently Co-Directs the BIAM Centre for Materials (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/avic-biam). He is Honorary Professor with the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Materials, and is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010, was awarded the IoM3 Harvey Flower Prize (2016), and shared the 2017 Imperial President's Award for Outstanding Research Team.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Xu Y, Joseph S, Karamched P, et al., 2020, Predicting dwell fatigue life in titanium alloys using modelling and experiment, Nature Communications, Vol:11, ISSN:2041-1723
Zheng Z, Prastiti NG, Balint DS, et al., 2019, The dislocation configurational energy density in discrete dislocation plasticity, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol:129, ISSN:0022-5096, Pages:39-60
Wilson D, Wan W, Dunne FPE, 2019, Microstructurally-sensitive fatigue crack growth in HCP, BCC and FCC polycrystals, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol:126, ISSN:0022-5096, Pages:204-225
Wilson D, Dunne FPE, 2019, A mechanistic modelling methodology for microstructure-sensitive fatigue crack growth, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol:124, ISSN:0022-5096, Pages:827-848
Wilson D, Zheng Z, Dunne F, 2018, A microstructure-sensitive driving force for crack growth, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol:121, ISSN:0022-5096, Pages:147-174
Zheng Z, Stapleton A, Fox K, et al., 2018, Understanding thermal alleviation in cold dwell fatigue in titanium alloys, International Journal of Plasticity, Vol:111, ISSN:0749-6419, Pages:234-252
Lan B, Britton TB, Jun T-S, et al., 2018, Direct volumetric measurement of crystallographic texture using acoustic waves, Acta Materialia, Vol:159, ISSN:1359-6454, Pages:384-394
Zhang Z, F.P.E. D, 2018, Phase morphology, variants and crystallography of alloy microstructures in cold dwell fatigue, International Journal of Fatigue, Vol:113, ISSN:0142-1123, Pages:324-334
Chen B, Jiang J, Dunne FPE, 2018, Is stored energy density the primary meso-scale mechanistic driver for fatigue crack nucleation?, International Journal of Plasticity, Vol:101, ISSN:0749-6419, Pages:213-229
Cuddihy MA, Stapleton A, Williams SJ, et al., 2017, On cold dwell facet fatigue in titanium alloy aero-engine components, International Journal of Fatigue, Vol:97, ISSN:0142-1123, Pages:177-189