2020 Publications
Journal Articles
Afifi, M. A., Wang, Y. C., & Langdon, T. G. (2020). Effect of dynamic plastic deformation on the microstructure and mechanical properties of an Al–Zn–Mg alloy. Materials Science & Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 784(139287), 139287.
Al-Helal, K., Patel, J. B., & Fan, Z. (2020). Fe-rich intermetallic formation and mechanical properties of recycled AA6111 alloy strips produced by melt conditioning twin roll casting. JOM (Warrendale, Pa.: 1989), 72(11), 3753–3759.
Al-Helal, K., Patel, J. B., Scamans, G. M., & Fan, Z. (2020). Direct chill casting and extrusion of AA6111 aluminum alloy formulated from Taint Tabor scrap. Materials, 13(24), 5740.
Al-Helal, K., Patel, J. B., Scamans, G. M., & Fan, Z. (2020). Melt conditioned direct chill (MC-DC) casting and extrusion of AA5754 aluminium alloy formulated from recycled Taint Tabor scrap. Materials, 13(12), 2711.
Assadi, H., & Gärtner, F. (2020). Particle compression test: A key step towards tailoring of feedstock powder for cold spraying. Coatings, 10(5), 458.
Bagherpour, E., Reihanian, M., Ebrahimi, R., Qods, F., & Miyamoto, H. (2020). Role of strain reversal in microstructure and texture of pure Al during non-monotonic simple shear straining. Crystals, 10(10), 926.
Balart, M. J., Gao, F., Patel, J. B., & Miani, F. (2020). On the role of dilute solute additions on growth restriction in binary copper alloys. Metallography Microstructure and Analysis, 9(6), 825–832.
Balart, M. J., Hao, X., Marks, S., West, G. D., Walker, M., & Davis, C. L. (2020). Evolution of non-metallic inclusions through processing in Ti-V microalloyed 316L and Al-V microalloyed 17-4PH stainless steels for HIPping applications. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.
Barekar, N. S., Skalicky, I., Barbatti, C., Fan, Z., & Jarrett, M. (2020). Enhancement of chip breakability of aluminium alloys by controlling the solidification during direct chill casting. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 158008, 158008.
Bollada, P. C., Jimack, P. K., & Mullis, A. M. (2020). Multiphase field modelling of alloy solidification. Computational Materials Science, 171(109085), 109085.
Buzolin, R. H., Volovitch, P., Maltseva, A., Lamaka, S., Blawert, C., Mendis, C. L., Lohmüller, A., Kainer, K. U., & Hort, N. (2020). Thixomolded AZ91D and MRI153M magnesium alloys and their enhanced corrosion resistance. Materials and Corrosion, 71(3), 339–351.
Buzolin, R. H., Moreno Guimaraes, L. H., Ávila Díaz, J. A., Pereira da Silva, E., Tolnai, D., L. Mendis, C., Hort, N., & Cavalcanti Pinto, H. (2020). Restoration mechanisms at moderate temperatures for as-cast ZK40 magnesium alloys modified with individual Ca and Gd additions. Crystals, 10(12), 1140.
Cai, Q., Mendis, C. L., Chang, I. T. H., & Fan, Z. (2020). Effect of short T6 heat treatment on the microstructure and the mechanical properties of newly developed die-cast Al–Si–Mg–Mn alloys. Materials Science & Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 788(139610), 139610.
Cai, Q., Mendis, C. L., Chang, I. T. H., & Fan, Z. (2020). Microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of new die-cast Al-Si-Mg-Mn alloys. Materials & Design, 187(108394), 108394.
Cao, S., Zeng, L., Xia, M., Xu, M., Ge, X., Wang, Y., Lu, W., Fu, Y., Xie, H. L., & Li, J. (2020). Quantitative relationship between the nucleation undercooling of liquid iron and its liquid structure: Investigated by in situ synchrotron radiation. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 51(8), 3754–3758.
Chang, I., Luo, D., Al-Helal, K., Patel, J. B., Huang, Y., Scamans, G., & Fan, Z. (2020). Processing of Recycled AA6111 Aluminium Alloy from Two Different Feedstock of Aluminium Metal Scraps. 軽金属溶接, 58(Supplement), 29s–32s.
Chankitmunkong, S., Eskin, D. G., & Limmaneevichitr, C. (2020). Structure refinement, mechanical properties and feasibility of deformation of hypereutectic Al–Fe–Zr and Al–Ni–Zr alloys subjected to ultrasonic melt processing. Materials Science & Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 788(139567), 139567.
Cui, Y., King, D. J. M., Horsfield, A. P., & Gourlay, C. M. (2020). Solidification orientation relationships between Al3Ti and TiB2. Acta Materialia, 186, 149–161.
Dong, X., Li, P., Amirkhanlou, S., Ji, S., Popel, P. S., Dahlborg, U., & Calvo-Dahlborg, M. (2020). Evidence of disruption of Si-rich microstructure in engineering-lightweight Al-12.2at.%Si alloy melt above liquidus temperature. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 12979.
Dong, X., Youssef, H., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Wang, S., & Ji, S. (2020). Advanced heat treated die-cast aluminium composites fabricated by TiB2 nanoparticle implantation. Materials & Design, 186(108372), 108372.
Dou, K., Lordan, E., Zhang, Y. J., Jacot, A., & Fan, Z. Y. (2020). A complete computer aided engineering (CAE) modelling and optimization of high pressure die casting (HPDC) process. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 60, 435–446.
Dou, K., & Liu, Q. (2020a). A new cooling strategy in curved continuous casting process of vanadium micro-alloyed YQ450NQR1 steel bloom combining experimental and modeling approach. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 51(8), 3945–3955.
Dou, K., & Liu, Q. (2020b). Hot deformation behavior and constitutive modelling of low carbon micro-alloyed steel YQ450NQR1 during isothermal compression. Mechanics of Materials: An International Journal, 148(103430), 103430.
Fan, Z., & Men, H. (2020). A molecular dynamics study of heterogeneous nucleation in generic liquid/substrate systems with positive lattice misfit. Materials Research Express, 7(12), 126501.
Fan, Z., Gao, F., Jiang, B., & Que, Z. (2020). Impeding nucleation for more significant grain refinement. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 9448.
Fang, C., & Fan, Z. (2020). Atomic ordering at the interfaces between liquid Al and solid MgO: An Ab Initio molecular dynamics study. Philosophical Magazine Letters, 100(5), 235–244.
Fang, C., & Fan, Z. (2020). Prenucleation at the liquid-Al/α-Al2O3 and the liquid-Al/MgO interfaces. Computational Materials Science, 171(109258), 109258.
Fang, C. M., & Fan, Z. (2020). Atomic ordering at the liquid-Al/MgAl2O4 interfaces from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.
Fang, C. M., & Fan, Z. (2020). Prenucleation at the interface between MgO and liquid magnesium: An ab initio molecular dynamics study. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 51(2), 788–797.
Fang, C. M., Mohammodi, V., Nihtianov, S., & Sluiter, M. H. F. (2020). Stability, geometry and electronic properties of BH n (n = 0 to 3) radicals on the Si{0 0 1}3 × 1:H surface from first-principles. Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter: An Institute of Physics Journal, 32(23), 235201.
Fang, C. M., Que, Z. P., Dinsdale, A., & Fan, Z. (2020). Si solution in θ-Al13Fe4 from first-principles. Intermetallics, 126(106939), 106939.
Feng, S., Cui, Y., Liotti, E., Lui, A., Gourlay, C. M., & Grant, P. S. (2020). In-situ X-ray radiography of twinned crystal growth of primary Al13Fe4. Scripta Materialia, 184, 57–62.
Feng, S., Liotti, E., Lui, A., Wilson, M. D., Connolley, T., Mathiesen, R. H., & Grant, P. S. (2020). In-situ X-ray radiography of primary Fe-rich intermetallic compound formation. Acta Materialia, 196, 759–769.
Feng, S., Liotti, E., Wilson, M. D., Jowitt, L., & Grant, P. S. (2020). In situ mapping of chemical segregation using synchrotron x-ray imaging. MRS Bulletin, 45(11), 934–942.
Huang, H., Wang, J., Yang, H., Ji, S., Yu, H., & Liu, Z. (2020). Strengthening CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy by tuning lattice defects. Scripta Materialia, 188, 216–221.
Ji, M., Slater, C., & Davis, C. (2020). Thermomechanical processing map in retaining 100//ND texture via strain-induced boundary migration recrystallization mechanism. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-06047-x
Jin, Z., Cai, C., Hashimoto, T., Yuan, Y., Kang, D., Hunter, J., & Zhou, X. (2020). Alkaline etching and desmutting of aluminium alloy: The behaviour of Mg2Si particles. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 842(155834), 155834.
Khan, M. A., Wang, Y., Cheng, H., Yasin, G., Malik, A., Nazeer, F., Ahmad, T., Khan, W. Q., Kamran, M., & Afifi, M. A. (2020). Microstructure evolution of an artificially aged Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy subjected to soft- and hard-steel core projectiles. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 9(5), 11980–11992.
Khan, M. A., Wang, Y., Yasin, G., Nazeer, F., Malik, A., Ahmad, T., Khan, W. Q., Nguyen, T. A., Zhang, H., & Afifi, M. A. (2020). Adiabatic shear band localization in an Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloy under high strain rate compression. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 9(3), 3977–3983.
Khan, M. A., Wang, Y., Yasin, G., Nazeer, F., Malik, A., Khan, W. Q., Ahmad, T., Zhang, H., & Afifi, M. A. (2020). The effect of strain rates on the microstructure and the mechanical properties of an over-aged Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy. Materials Characterization, 167(110472), 110472.
Lebon, G. S. B., Li, H.-T., Patel, J. B., Assadi, H., & Fan, Z. (2020). Numerical modelling of melt-conditioned direct-chill casting. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 77, 1310–1330.
Lebon, G. S. B., Lazaro-Nebreda, J., Patel, J. B., & Fan, Z. (2020). Numerical assessment of in-line rotor–Stator mixers in High-shear melt conditioning (HSMC) technology. JOM (Warrendale, Pa.: 1989), 72(11), 4092–4100.
Liu, F., Zhu, X., & Ji, S. (2020). Effects of Ni on the microstructure, hot tear and mechanical properties of Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloys under as-cast condition. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 821(153458), 153458.
Lordan, E., Lazaro-Nebreda, J., Zhang, Y., Dou, K., Blake, P., & Fan, Z. (2020). On the relationship between internal porosity and the tensile ductility of aluminium alloy die-castings. Materials Science & Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 778(139107), 139107.
Moridi, A., Stewart, E. J., Wakai, A., Assadi, H., Gartner, F., Guagliano, M., Klassen, T., & Dao, M. (2020). Solid-state additive manufacturing of porous Ti-6Al-4V by supersonic impact. Applied Materials Today, 21(100865), 100865.
Nikbakht, R., Assadi, H., & Jodoin, B. (2020). Intermetallic phase evolution of cold-sprayed Ni-ti composite coatings: Influence of as-sprayed chemical composition. Journal of Thermal Spray Technology.
Niu, Z., & Cheng, K. (2020a). Improved dynamic cutting force modelling in micro milling of metal matrix composites Part I: Theoretical model and simulations. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 234(9), 1733–1745.
Niu, Z., & Cheng, K. (2020b). Improved dynamic cutting force modelling in micro milling of metal matrix composites part II: Experimental validation and prediction. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 234(8), 1500–1515.
Pérez-Prado, M.-T., Bohlen, J., Yi, S., Letzig, D., Al-Samman, T., Robson, J., Barnett, M., Poole, W., Mendis, C., Agnew, S., & Stanford, N. (2020). Emerging hot topics and research questions in wrought magnesium alloy development. JOM (Warrendale, Pa.: 1989), 72(7), 2561–2567.
Que, Z., & Mendis, C. L. (2020a). Formation of θ-Al13Fe4 and the multi-step phase transformations to α-Al8Fe2Si, β-Al5FeSi and δ-Al4FeSi2 in Al–20Si-0.7Fe alloy. Intermetallics, 127(106960), 106960.
Que, Z., & Mendis, C. L. (2020b). Heterogeneous nucleation and phase transformation of Fe-rich intermetallic compounds in Al–Mg–Si alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 836(155515), 155515.
Que, Z., Wang, Y., & Fan, Z. (2020). Heterogeneous nucleation of eutectic structure in Al-mg-Si alloys. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 51(6), 2697–2702.
Que, Z., Wang, Y., & Mendis, C. L. (2020). Heterogeneous nucleation of α-Al on naturally formed MgAl2O4 particles during solidification of Al–Mg–Si–Fe–Mn alloys. Materialia, 14(100900), 100900.
Razavi, M., & Huang, Y. (2020). Effect of hydroxyapatite (HA) nanoparticles shape on biodegradation of Mg/HA nanocomposites processed by high shear solidification/equal channel angular extrusion route. Materials Letters, 267(127541), 127541.
Seraj, R. A., Abdollah-Zadeh, A., Assadi, H., Hajipour, H., & Kadkhodaee, M. (2020). Effect of substrate on the properties of cold sprayed coating of WC-10Ni. Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies, 1–14.
Silva C., M. del R., Blawert, C., Mendis, C. L., Mohedano, M., Zimmermann, T., Proefrock, D., Zheludkevich, M. L., & Kainer, K. U. (2020). Effect of heat treatment on the corrosion behavior of mg-10Gd alloy in 0.5% NaCl solution. Frontiers in Materials, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2020.00084
Subroto, T., Eskin, D. G., Beckwith, C., Skalicky, I., Roberts, D., Tzanakis, I., & Pericleous, K. (2020). Structure refinement upon ultrasonic melt treatment in a DC casting launder. JOM (Warrendale, Pa.: 1989), 72(11), 4071–4081.
Subroto, T., Eskin, D. G., Beckwith, C., Tzanakis, I., Djambazov, G., & Pericleous, K. (2020). Improving ultrasonic melt treatment efficiency through flow management: Acoustic pressure measurements and numerical simulations. In Light Metals 2020 (pp. 981–987). Springer International Publishing.
Tyurnina, A. V., Tzanakis, I., Morton, J., Mi, J., Porfyrakis, K., Maciejewska, B. M., Grobert, N., & Eskin, D. G. (2020). Ultrasonic exfoliation of graphene in water: A key parameter study. Carbon, 168, 737–747.
Venditti, S., Eskin, D., & Jacot, A. (2020). Fractional solidification for purification of recycled aluminium alloys. In Light Metals 2020 (pp. 1110–1118). Springer International Publishing.
Wang, B., Tan, D., Lee, T. L., Khong, J. C., Wang, F., Eskin, D. G., Connolley, T., Fezzaa, K., & Mi, J. (2020). Ultrafast synchrotron X-ray imaging studies of metallic alloy solidification under ultrasound [Data set].
Wang, J., Li, W., Yang, H., Huang, H., Ji, S., Ruan, J., & Liu, Z. (2020). Corrosion behavior of CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy compared with 304 stainless steel in H2SO4 and NaOH solutions. Corrosion Science, 177(108973), 108973.
Wang, J., Yang, H., Huang, H., Zou, J., Ji, S., & Liu, Z. (2020). High strength-ductility Co23Cr23Ni23Mn31 medium-entropy alloy achieved via defect engineering. Materials Science & Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 796(139974), 139974.
Wang, S., Wang, Y., Ramasse, Q., & Fan, Z. (2020). The nature of native MgO in mg and its alloys. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-05740-1
Wang, W., Guo, E., Phillion, A. B., Eskin, D. G., Wang, T., & Lee, P. D. (2020). Semi-solid compression of nano/micro-particle reinforced Al-Cu composites: An in situ synchrotron tomographic study. Materialia, 12(100817), 100817.
Wang, Y. C., Afifi, M. A., Cheng, X., Li, S., & Langdon, T. G. (2020). An evaluation of the microstructure and microhardness in an Al–Zn–mg alloy processed by ECAP and post‐ECAP heat treatments. Advanced Engineering Materials, 22(1), 1901040.
Wang, Y., Que, Z., Hashimoto, T., Zhou, X., & Fan, Z. (2020). Mechanism for Si poisoning of Al-ti-B grain refiners in Al alloys. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 51(11), 5743–5757.
Yang, X., Barekar, N. S., Ji, S., Dhindaw, B. K., & Fan, Z. (2020). Influence of reinforcing particle distribution on the casting characteristics of Al-SiCp composites. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 279(116580), 116580.
Zeng, G., Shuai, S. S., Zhu, X. Z., Ji, S. X., Xian, J. W., & Gourlay, C. M. (2020). Al8Mn5 in high-pressure die cast AZ91: Twinning, morphology and size distributions. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 51(5), 2523–2535.
Zhang, K., Zheng, J.-H., Huang, Y., Pruncu, C., & Jiang, J. (2020). Evolution of twinning and shear bands in magnesium alloys during rolling at room and cryogenic temperature. Materials & Design, 193(108793), 108793.
Zhang, Y., Lordan, E., Dou, K., Wang, S., & Fan, Z. (2020). Influence of porosity characteristics on the variability in mechanical properties of high pressure die casting (HPDC) AlSi7MgMn alloys. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 56, 500–509.
Zhou, M., Cardoso, R. P. R., Bahai, H., & Usmani, A. (2020). A thermo-mechanical analysis of stainless steel structures in fire. Engineering Structures, 210(110091), 110091.
Zhou, M., Jiang, L., Chen, S., Cardoso, R. P. R., & Usmani, A. (2020). Remaining fire resistance of steel frames following a moderate earthquake – A case study. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 164(105754), 105754.
Zhu, X., Dong, X., Blake, P., & Ji, S. (2021). Improvement in as-cast strength of high pressure die-cast Al–Si–Cu–Mg alloys by synergistic effect of Q-Al5Cu2Mg8Si6 and θ-Al2Cu phases. Materials Science & Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing, 802(140612), 140612.
