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  Computational modelling to enhance safety of operating nuclear power plants

  Mathew, J., Christopoulos, S., Chroneos, A., Parfitt, D. & Fitzpatrick, M., 13 Oct 2016.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

• Disordered Ionic Conductors

  Kordatos, A., Christopoulos, S., Fitzpatrick, M. & Chroneos, A., 8 Sep 2016.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

  • conductors
  • solid oxide fuel cells
  • energy storage
  • electric power
  • electric batteries

• Stabilization of Zrn+1AlCn MAX Phases: Issues and Achievements

  Zapata-Solvas, E., Christopoulos, S., Fitzpatrick, M., Chroneos, A. & Lee, W. E., 23 Oct 2016.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Nuclear reactors
  • Stabilization
  • Accidents
  • Phase stability
  • Zircaloy
• Article

  312 MAX Phases: Elastic Properties and Lithiation

  Filippatos, P. P., Hadi, M. A., Christopoulos, S., Kordatos, A., Kelaidis, N., Fitzpatrick, M., Vasilopoulou, M. & Chroneos, A., 8 Dec 2019, In: Materials. 12, 13 p., 4098.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Atoms
  • Density functional theory
  • elastic properties
  • Transition metals
  • Lithium
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  14 Downloads (Pure)

• A combined experimental and finite element approach for determining mechanical properties of aluminium alloys by nanoindentation

  Khan, K., Fitzpatrick, M., Hainsworth, S. & Edwards, L., 2011, In: Computational Materials Science. 49, 4, p. 751-760 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nanoindentation
  • Aluminum Alloy
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanical testing
  • nanoindentation
  36 Citations (Scopus)

• A comparison of neutron diffraction and hole-drilling residual strain measurements in thermally sprayed coatings

  Ahmed, R., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Faisal, N. H., 25 May 2012, In: Surface and Coatings Technology. 206, 19-20, p. 4180-4185 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Neutron diffraction
  • Sprayed coatings
  • sprayed coatings
  • Strain measurement
  • strain measurement
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Activation volumes of oxygen self-diffusion in fluorite structured oxides

  Christopoulos, S-R. G., Kordatos, A., Cooper, M. W. D., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Chroneos, A., 27 Oct 2016, In: Materials Research Express. 3, 10, 105504.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Fluorspar
  • Oxides
  • Chemical activation
  • Oxygen
  • Molecular dynamics
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Anelasticity in austenitic stainless steel

  Ashwin Rao, P., Bouchard, J., Northover, S. M. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., Nov 2012, In: Acta Materialia. 60, 19, p. 6851–6861

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Austenitic stainless steel
  • Creep
  • Neutron diffraction
  • Unloading
  • Strain rate
  22 Citations (Scopus)

• A new bridge technique for neutron tomography and diffraction measurements

  Burca, G., James, J. A., Kockelmann, W., Fitzpatrick, M. E., Zhang, S. Y., Hovind, J. & Van Langh, R., 21 Sep 2011, In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 651, 1, p. 229-235 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Neutrons
  • Diffraction
  • Tomography
  • tomography
  • neutrons
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• An experimental study of residual stress and direction-dependence of fatigue crack growth behaviour in as-built and stress-relieved selective-laser-melted Ti6Al4V

  Syed, A., Ahmad, B., Guo, H., Machry, T., Eatock, D., Meyer, J., Fitzpatrick, M. & Zhang, X., 7 May 2019, In: Materials Science and Engineering: A. 755, p. 246-257 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • titanium alloy (TiAl6V4)
  • Fatigue crack propagation
  • Selective laser melting
  • residual stress
  • Residual stresses
  18 Citations (Scopus)

  25 Downloads (Pure)

• An iterative technique for the reconstruction of residual stress fields in a butt-welded plate from experimental measurement, and comparison with welding process simulation

  Chukkan, J. R., Wu, G., Fitzpatrick, M. E., Jones, S. & Kelleher, J., 1 Sep 2019, In: International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 160, p. 421-428 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • welding
  • stress distribution
  • residual stress
  • Residual stresses
  • Welding
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  9 Downloads (Pure)

• Application of synchrotron X-ray diffraction and nanoindentation for the determination of residual stress fields around scratches

  Khan, K., Fitzpatrick, M., Hainsworth, S., Evans, A. D. & Edwards, L., 2011, In: Acta Materialia. 59, 20, p. 7508-7520 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Synchrotrons
  • Nanoindentation
  • X ray diffraction
  • Residual stresses
  • Diffraction
  27 Citations (Scopus)

• Application of the eigenstrain approach to predict the residual stress distribution in laser shock peened AA7050-T7451 samples

  Coratella, S., Sticchi, M., Toparli, M. B., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Kashaev, K., 2015, In: Surface and Coatings Technology. 273, p. 39-49

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • stress distribution
  • residual stress
  • Residual stresses
  • Stress concentration
  • shock
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  205 Downloads (Pure)

• Characterization and application of Bragg-edge transmission imaging for strain measurement and crystallographic analysis on the IMAT beamline

  Ramadhan, R. S., Kockelmann, W., Minniti, T., Chen, B., Parfitt, D., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Tremsin, A. S., 1 Apr 2019, In: Journal of Applied Crystallography. 52, 2, p. 351-368 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Lattice constants
  • Strain measurement
  • Textures
  • Imaging techniques
  • Spectral resolution
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  43 Downloads (Pure)

• Describing oxygen self-diffusion in PuO2 by connecting point defect parameters with bulk properties

  Chroneos, A., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Tsoukalas, L. H., 2015, In: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics. 26, 5, p. 3287-3290

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • Point defects
  • point defects
  • Oxygen
  • oxygen
  • nuclear fuels
  14 Citations (Scopus)

  24 Downloads (Pure)

• Determination of multiple near-surface residual stress components in laser peened aluminium alloy via the contour method

  Toparli, M. B., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Gungor, S., 2015, In: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 46, 9, p. 4268-4275

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • aluminum alloys
  • residual stress
  • Aluminum alloys
  • Residual stresses
  • Lasers
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  31 Downloads (Pure)

• Determination of normal and shear residual stresses from fracture surface mismatch

  Araujo de Oliveira, J., Kowal, J., Gungor, S. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 2015, In: Materials & Design. 83, p. 176-184

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Shear stress
  • Residual stresses
  • Plasticity
  • Stress measurement
  • Forging
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  80 Downloads (Pure)

• Development and application of the contour method to determine the residual stresses in thin laser-peened aluminium alloy plates

  Toparli, M. B. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 8 Oct 2015, In: Experimental Mechanics. 56, 2, p. 323-330

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • Aluminum alloys
  • Residual stresses
  • Lasers
  • Splines
  • Glues
  11 Citations (Scopus)

  100 Downloads (Pure)

• Effect of frequency on high-temperature fatigue crack growth in a silicon carbide reinforced silicon nitride composite

  Moffatt, J. E., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Edwards, L., Feb 2013, In: International Journal of Fatigue. 47, February 2013, p. 319-329

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Silicon Nitride
  • Fatigue Crack Growth
  • silicon nitride
  • silicon carbide
  • Silicon
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Effect of grain size on domain structures, dielectric and thermal depoling of Nd-substituted bismuth titanate ceramics

  Viola, G., Boon Chong, K., Eriksson, M., Shen, Z., Zeng, J., Yin, Q., Kan, Y., Wang, P., Ning, H., Zhang, H., Fitzpatrick, M. E., Reece, M. J. & Yan, H., 2013, In: Applied Physics Letters. 103, 182903 (

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • titanates
  • bismuth
  • grain size
  • ceramics
  • domain wall
  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Effect of impact damage on fatigue performance of structures reinforced with GLARE bonded crack retarders

  Syed, A. K., Fitzpatrick, M. E., Moffatt, J. E., Doucet, J. & Durazo-Cardenas, I., 2015, In: International Journal of Fatigue. 80, p. 231-237 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Fatigue
  • Damage
  • Crack
  • Fatigue of materials
  • Cracks
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  33 Downloads (Pure)

• Effect of laser shock peening on residual stress and fatigue life of clad 2024 aluminium sheet containing scribe defects

  Dorman, M., Toparli, M. B., Smyth, N., Cini, A., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Irving, P. E., 30 Jun 2012, In: Materials Science and Engineering: A. 528, p. 142-151 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • peening
  • fatigue life
  • Aluminum sheet
  • Shot peening
  • residual stress
  70 Citations (Scopus)

• Effect of Overlapping of Peen Spots on Residual Stresses in Laser-Peened Aluminium Sheets

  Toparli, M. B. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 15 Mar 2019, In: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science. 50, 3, p. 1109-1112 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Aluminum sheet
  • peening
  • Shot peening
  • residual stress
  • Residual stresses
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Effect of residual stress on the nanoindentation response of aerospace aluminium alloys

  Khan, K., Fitzpatrick, M., Hainsworth, S. & Edwards, L., 2011, In: Computational Materials Science. 50, 10, p. 2967-2976 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nanoindentation
  • Aluminum Alloy
  • Residual Stress
  • nanoindentation
  • aluminum alloys
  35 Citations (Scopus)

• Effect of ultrasonic peening and accelerated corrosion exposure on the residual stress distribution in welded marine steel

  Ahmed, B. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 2015, In: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science. 46, 3, p. 1214-1226

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • peening
  • Shot peening
  • Steel
  • stress distribution
  • residual stress
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  64 Downloads (Pure)

• Energy-Efficient Machining Process Analysis and Optimisation Based on BS EN24T Alloy Steel as Case Studies

  Caires Moreira, L., Li, W., Lu, X. & Fitzpatrick, M., Aug 2019, In: Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 58, p. 1-12 12 p.

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  • Energy Efficient
  • Machining
  • Steel
  • Alloy steel
  • Optimization
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  34 Downloads (Pure)

• Experimental study of room-temperature indentation viscoplastic ‘creep’ in zirconium

  Storer, S. C., Fitzpatrick, M. E., Hainsworth, S. V. & Rist, M. A., 2016, In: Philosophical Magazine. 96, 24, p. 2547-2563

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • nanoindentation
  • indentation
  • strain rate
  • room temperature
  • creep tests
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  37 Downloads (Pure)

• Fatigue and fracture of a 316 stainless steel metal matrix composite reinforced with 25% titanium diboride

  Bacon, D. H., Edwards, L., Mofffatt, J. E. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., Mar 2013, In: International Journal of Fatigue. 48, 2013, p. 39-47

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • titanium boride
  • Metal Matrix Composites
  • Stainless Steel
  • Titanium
  • Fatigue
  31 Citations (Scopus)

• Fatigue crack growth in a laser shock peened residual stress field

  Pavan, M., Furfari, D., Ahmad, B., Gharghouri, M. A. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 1 Jun 2019, In: International Journal of Fatigue. 123, p. 157-167 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Fatigue Crack Growth
  • Residual Stress
  • Laser
  • Stress Field
  • Fatigue Life
  24 Citations (Scopus)

  14 Downloads (Pure)

• Fatigue performance of friction stir welded marine grade steel

  Polezhayeva, H., Toumpis, A. I., Galloway, A. M., Molter, L., Ahmed, B. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 13 Aug 2015, In: International Journal of Fatigue. 81, p. 162–170

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • Fatigue
  • Steel
  • Friction Stir Welding
  • Friction
  • S-N Curve
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  89 Downloads (Pure)

• Germanium diffusion in aluminium: connection between point defect parameters with bulk properties

  Ganniari-Papageorgiou, E., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Chroneos, A., 28 Jul 2015, In: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics. 26, 11, p. 8421-8424

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • Germanium
  • Point defects
  • Aluminum
  • point defects
  • germanium
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  17 Downloads (Pure)

• High strain-rate material model validation for laser peening simulation

  Langer, K., Olson, S., Brockman, R., Braisted, W., Spradlin, T. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 2015, In: The Journal of Engineering. September 2015

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

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  • Shot peening
  • Strain rate
  • Lasers
  • Compression testing
  • Residual stresses
  78 Downloads (Pure)

• Improvement of the Contour Method for Measurement of Near-Surface Residual Stresses from Laser Peening

  Torpali, M. B., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Gungor, S., May 2013, In: Experimental Mechanics. 53, 9, p. 1705-1718

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Shot peening
  • Residual stresses
  • Lasers
  • X ray diffraction
  • Splines
  27 Citations (Scopus)

• In situ observation of strain and phase transformation in plastically deformed 301 austenitic stainless steel

  Das, Y. B., Forsey, A. N., Simm, T. H., Perkins, K. M., Fitzpatrick, M. E., Gungor, S. & Moat, R. J., 16 Sep 2016, In: Materials & Design. 112, p. 107-116

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • Phase transitions
  • Austenitic stainless steel
  • Transformation Induced Plasticity steel
  • Electron diffraction
  • Martensitic transformations
  35 Citations (Scopus)

  148 Downloads (Pure)

• Instantaneous vehicle fuel consumption estimation using smartphones and Recurrent Neural Networks

  Kanarachos, S., Mathew, J. & Fitzpatrick, M., 15 Apr 2019, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 120, p. 436-447 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Recurrent neural networks
  • Smartphones
  • Fuel consumption
  • Monitoring
  • Air pollution
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  76 Downloads (Pure)

• Investigation of oxygen self-diffusion in PuO2 by combining molecular dynamics with thermodynamic calculations

  Saltas, V., Chroneos, A., Cooper, M. W. D., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Vallianatos, F., 26 Oct 2016, In: RSC Advances. 6, 105, p. 103641-103649 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • Molecular dynamics
  • Chemical activation
  • Thermodynamics
  • Oxygen
  • Plutonium
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  21 Downloads (Pure)

• Measurement of the evolution of internal strain and load partitioning in magnesium hybrid composites under compression load using in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction analysis

  Meixner, M., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Reimers, W., 17 Jan 2011, In: Composites Science and Technology. 71, 2, p. 167-176 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Synchrotrons
  • X ray diffraction analysis
  • Magnesium
  • Compaction
  • Composite materials
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Microstructure, tensile and creep properties of an austenitic ODS 316L steel

  Leo, J. R. O., Pirfo Barroso, S., Fitzpatrick, M. E., Wang, M. & Zhou, Z., 11 Mar 2019, In: Materials Science and Engineering A. 749, p. 158-165 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • tensile creep
  • creep properties
  • Oxides
  • Steel
  • tensile properties
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Minimization and Mitigation of Wire EDM Cutting Errors in the Application of the Contour Method of Residual Stress Measurement

  Ahmed, B. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., Jan 2016, In: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 47, 1, p. 301-313

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  • Stress measurement
  • stress measurement
  • residual stress
  • Residual stresses
  • Wire
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  101 Downloads (Pure)

• Modelling of an imaging beamline at the ISIS pulsed neutron source

  Burca, G., Kockelmann, W., James, J. A. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 2013, In: Journal of Instrumentation. 8, October 2013

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Neutron sources
  • Neutron
  • Imaging
  • Neutrons
  • neutron sources
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Modelling oxygen self-diffusion in UO2 under pressure

  Cooper, M. W. D., Grimes, R. W., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Chroneos, A., 22 Oct 2015, In: Solid State Ionics. 282, p. 26-30

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  • Oxygen
  • oxygen
  • Hydrostatic pressure
  • nuclear fuels
  • Nuclear fuels
  36 Citations (Scopus)

  33 Downloads (Pure)

• Neutron diffraction residual stress measurements on girth-welded 304 stainless steel pipes with weld metal deposited up to half and full pipe wall thickness

  Haigh, R. D., Hutchings, M. T., Games, J. A., Ganguly, S., Mizuno, R., Ogawa, K., Okido, S., Paradowska, A. M. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., Jan 2013, In: International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 101, January 2013, p. 1-11

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Neutron diffraction
  • Stress measurement
  • Steel pipe
  • Austenitic stainless steel
  • Metals
  17 Citations (Scopus)

• Oxygen self-diffusion in ThO2 under pressure: connecting point defect parameters with bulk properties

  Cooper, M. W. D., Fitzpatrick, M. E., Tsoukalas, L. H. & Chroneos, A., 2016, In: Materials Research Express.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  • Point defects
  • Hydrostatic pressure
  • Oxygen
  • Nuclear fuels
  • Molecular dynamics
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  25 Downloads (Pure)

• Problems in using a comb sample as a stress-free reference for the determination of welding residual stress by diffraction

  Ganguly, S., Edwards, L. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 25 Jan 2011, In: Materials Science and Engineering A. 528, 3, p. 1226-1232 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Diffraction
  • welding
  • residual stress
  • Residual stresses
  • Welding
  20 Citations (Scopus)

• Recovery of fatigue life using laser peening on 2024‐T351 aluminium sheet containing scratch damage: The role of residual stress

  Smyth, N., Toparli, M. B., Fitzpatrick, M. & Irving, P. E., 1 May 2019, In: Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures. 42, 5, p. 1161-1174 14 p.

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  • Aluminum sheet
  • Shot peening
  • Residual stresses
  • Lasers
  • Fatigue of materials
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  12 Downloads (Pure)

• Residual stress characterization of single and triple-pass autogenously welded stainless steel pipes

  Haigh, R. D., Hutchings, M. T., Fitzpatrick, M. E., James, J. A., Okido, S., Mizuno, R., Ogawa, K. & Hughes, D. J., Aug 2016, In: International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 144, p. 1–10

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  • Stainless Steel
  • Steel pipe
  • Residual stresses
  • Stainless steel
  • Pipe
  20 Downloads (Pure)

• Residual stresses in aerospace structures reinforced with bonded crack retarders

  Syed, A. K., Fitzpatrick, M. E. & Moffatt, J. E., 2016, In: Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design. 51, 2, p. 170-175

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  • Residual Stress
  • Crack
  • Residual stresses
  • Cracks
  • Fatigue
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  55 Downloads (Pure)

• Supervision Controller for Real-time Surface Quality Assurance in CNC Machining using Artificial Intelligence

  Caires Moreira, L., Li, W., Lu, X. & Fitzpatrick, M., Jan 2019, In: Computers & Industrial Engineering. 127, p. 158-168 11 p.

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  • Quality assurance
  • Surface properties
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machining
  • Controllers
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  34 Downloads (Pure)

• Surface preparation for residual stress measurement of an accelerated corrosion tested welded marine steel

  Ahmed, B. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 2015, In: Corrosion Science. 91, p. 357–360

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Stress measurement
  • Steel
  • Residual stresses
  • Corrosion
  • Neutron diffraction
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  111 Downloads (Pure)

• Synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements of internal stresses during loading of steel-based metal matrix composites reinforced with TiB2 particles

  Bacon, D. H., Edwards, L., Moffatt, J. E. & Fitzpatrick, M. E., 1 May 2011, In: Acta Materialia. 59, 9, p. 3373-3383 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Synchrotrons
  • Steel
  • X ray diffraction
  • Metals
  • Residual stresses
  31 Citations (Scopus)