Dr Mingxu Xia

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About Mingxu

Dr Xia joined BCAST as Research Fellow in 2007. He graduated with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in September, 2006, which led to the award of Excellent Research Findings of Shanghai in 2008. His PhD research focused on the formation and properties of Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMG) and he developed a set of thermodynamic criteria for the design of BMG. he has also involved with semisolid technology of Mg alloys.

Dr Xia conducts research to develop Melt Conditioned Forming Technologies including Melt Conditioned High Pressure Die Casting (MC-HPDC), Melt Conditioned Direct Chilling Casting (MC-DC), Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Casting (MC-TRC), MC-DC-Extrusion and Rheo-Extrusion (RE). His major research focus is on the solidification behaviours of Mg and Al alloys under different conditions and their effects on the deformation and invalidation.

Representative publications:

1. Z. Fan, Y. Wang, M. Xia, S. Arumuganathar, Enhanced heterogeneous nucleation in AZ91D alloy by intensive melt shearing, Acta Mater. In press
2. Xia Mingxu, Wang Yun, Li Hutian, Arumuganathar Sumathy, Zuo Yubo, Scamans Geoff, Fan Zhongyun, Refinement of solidification microstructure by MCAST process, TMS 2009,135-140
3. Mingxu Xia, Shuguang Zhang, Chaoli Ma and Jianguo Li, Evaluation of Glass-forming ability for metallic glasses based on order-disorder competition, Applied Physics Letter, 89(2006)091917.
4. Mingxu Xia, Shuguang Zhang, Jianguo Li and Chaoli Ma, Thermal stability and its prediction of bulk metallic glass systems, Applied Physics Letter, 88(2006)261913.