Speaker Biography
Measurements Lecture
Professor Philippa Reed, Professor of Structural Materials, University of Southampton
Biography
Philippa graduated with a BA (Hons) in Materials Science and Metallurgy from Cambridge University in 1985, where she also obtained her Ph.D. on brittle failure in nuclear pressure vessel steels sponsored by Rolls Royce and Associates. Subsequent post-doctoral research at Cambridge investigated fatigue failure of aerospace turbine disc materials and was supported by Rolls Royce and DRA Aerospace, Farnborough. She then spent six months at Oxford University as a SERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow before joining the Department of Engineering Materials in Southampton in 1992 as a lecturer. She was elected to the Structural Materials Peer Review College of EPSRC in 1997, gaining CEng status in 1998, a Senior Lectureship in 1999, a Readership in 2002, Professorial status in 2006 and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in 2009. She was Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Southampton 2015 - 2022. Philippa's research interests centre on investigating micromechanisms of failure in a range of structural materials including engine materials, power generation turbine materials, hybrid pressure vessels, pipes and welds. This includes application of numerical modelling approaches to failure problems; assessment and modelling of crack initiation and growth behaviour in a range of materials systems/architectures. A particular focus is the effects of external service conditions such as temperature, environment (e.g. oxidation and hydrogen embrittlement) and complex loading on failure processes. These interests are reflected in her recent and ongoing research collaborations with EDF, Rolls Royce, TWI and many other industry partners
Plenary Speaker
Dr Calvin M. Stewart, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
Biography
Calvin M. Stewart is the College of Engineering Innovation Scholar and Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. He obtained a BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Central Florida in 2008, 2009, and 2013, respectively.
Dr. Stewart directs Materials at Extremes which focuses on the advanced manufacturing, mechanical testing, and theoretical mechanics of materials subject to thermal, mechanical, and chemical extremes. Within the gamut of extremes: creep, fatigue, thermomechanical fatigue, and fracture are key focus areas.
Current research involves the low-cost additive manufacturing of superalloys and refractory alloys for extreme environments, development of accelerated, parallelized, and miniaturized testing protocols for new materials qualification, and the development of probabilistic, machine learning, and advanced models for the mechanics of material in extreme environments.
Plenary Speaker
Dr Fred Cegla, NDE group, Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College London.
Biography
Frederic Cegla is a Reader in Mechanical Engineering in the Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) group at Imperial College London. He was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and received the MEng and PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, United Kingdom, in 2002 and 2006 respectively. He returned to Imperial College London after a short stay as postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. His current research focuses on the topics of ultrasonic sensors, ultrasonic monitoring techniques, structural health monitoring and ultrasonic manipulation of particles and bubbles. He was a founder of Permasense Ltd. a spin out company and market leader in the field of wireless ultrasonic corrosion monitoring. He has authored more than 100 publications and has several patents.