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Future Liquid Metal Engineering Hub

Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: November 2015 - October 2022

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Professor Zhongyun Fan Professor Zhongyun Fan
Director - BCAST - (Professor)
(Principal investigator)
T: +44 (0)1895 266406
E: zhongyun.fan@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266406 zhongyun.fan@brunel.ac.uk Russell 122
Dr Yan Huang Dr Yan Huang
Honorary Senior Lecturer
T: +44 (0)1895 266976
E: yan.huang@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266976 yan.huang@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 003a
Professor Shouxun Ji Professor Shouxun Ji
Professor
T: +44 (0)1895 266663
E: shouxun.ji@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266663 shouxun.ji@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 003c
Dr Ian Stone Dr Ian Stone
Director of Operations
T: +44 (0)1895 267826
E: ian.stone@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 267826 ian.stone@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 001b
Professor Hari Nadendla Professor Hari Nadendla
Professor
T: +44 (0)1895 265466
E: hari-babu.nadendla@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265466 hari-babu.nadendla@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 002b
Professor Geoffrey Scamans Professor Geoffrey Scamans
Head of Industrial Research
T: +44 (0)1895 268571
E: geoffrey.scamans@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 268571 geoffrey.scamans@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 001i
Professor Dmitry Eskin Professor Dmitry Eskin
Professor
T: +44 (0)1895 265317
E: dmitry.eskin@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 265317 dmitry.eskin@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 002a

Outputs

Fang, C., Que, Z., Souissi, M. and Fan, Z. (2022) 'Crystal Chemistry and Physical Properties of A Quaternary Intermetallic Compound, θ-(Al0.8718Cu0.0256Si0.1026)13Fe4'. Metals, 12 (12). pp. 1 - 14.Open Access Link

Journal article

Que, Z., Fang, C., Mendis, CL., Wang, Y. and Fan, Z. (2022) 'Effects of Si solution in θ-Al13Fe4 on phase transformation between Fe-containing intermetallic compounds in Al alloys'. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 932. pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0925-8388 Open Access Link

Journal article

Lebon, GSB. (2022) 'acousticStreamingFoam'. [Computer program]. Available at: https://zenodo.org/record/7152395.

Software

Que, Z., Wang, Y., Mendis, CL., Fang, C., Xia, H., Zhou, X. and et al. (2022) 'Understanding Fe-Containing Intermetallic Compounds in Al Alloys: An Overview of Recent Advances from the LiME Research Hub'. Metals, 12 (10). pp. 1 - 33.Open Access Link

Journal article

Cai, Q., Mendis, CL., Wang, S., Chang, ITH. and Fan, Z. (2021) 'Effect of heat treatment on microstructure and tensile properties of die-cast Al-Cu-Si-Mg alloys'. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 881. pp. 160559 - 160559. ISSN: 0925-8388

Journal article

Subroto, T., Lebon, B., Eskin, D., Skalicky, I., Roberts, D., Tzanakis, I. and et al. (2021) 'Numerical modelling and experimental validation of the effect of ultrasonic melt treatment in a direct-chill cast AA6008 alloy billet'. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 12. pp. 1582 - 1596. ISSN: 2238-7854 Open Access Link

Journal article

Subroto, T., Lebon, B., Eskin, DG., Skalicky, I., Roberts, D., Tzanakis, I. and et al. (2021) 'Effect of ultrasonic melt treatment on the sump profile and microstructure of a direct-chill cast AA6008 aluminum alloy'.TMS Annual Meeting. Virtual. 24 - 18 March. Springer International Publishing. pp. 894 - 899. ISSN: 0147-0809 Open Access Link

Conference paper

Que, Z. and Mendis, C. (2020) 'Effects of native AlN particles on heterogeneous nucleation in an Al-3Fe Alloy'. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 52 (2). pp. 553 - 559. ISSN: 1073-5623 Open Access Link

Journal article

Wang, S., Wang, Y., Ramasse, Q. and Fan, Z. (2020) 'The Nature of Native MgO in Mg and Its Alloys'. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 51 (6). pp. 2957 - 2974. ISSN: 1073-5623 Open Access Link

Journal article

Lui, A., Grant, PS., Stone, IC. and O’Reilly, KAQ. (2019) 'The Role of Grain Refiner in the Nucleation of AlFeSi Intermetallic Phases During Solidification of a 6xxx Aluminum Alloy'. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (11). pp. 5242 - 5252. ISSN: 1073-5623 Open Access Link

Journal article

Lebon, B., Li, H-T., Patel, J., Assadi, H. and Fan, Z. (2019) 'Numerical modelling of melt-conditioned direct-chill casting'. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 77 (2). pp. 1310 - 1330. ISSN: 0307-904X Open Access Link

Journal article

Lazaro Nebreda, J., Patel, JB., Chang, ITH., Stone, IC. and Fan, Z. (2019) 'Solidification processing of scrap Al-alloys containing high levels of Fe'. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 529 (1). pp. 012059 - 012059. ISSN: 1757-8981 Open Access Link

Journal article

Al-Helal, K., Stone, I. and Fan, Z. (2017) 'Effect of Solidification Rate on Macro-segregation and Morphologies of Silicon phases in Solidification of Al-15Si Alloy'.6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing SP17. Old Windsore, UK. 9 - 28 July. Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference of Solidification Processing SP17. pp. 517 - 520.Open Access Link

Conference paper

Tong, M., Patel, JB., Stone, I., Fan, Z. and Browne, DJ. (2017) 'The Scale-Up of High Shear Processing for the Purification of Recycled Molten Scrap Aluminium Alloy: Key Features of Fluid Flow'.146th TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition / Conference on Light Metals. San Diego, CA. 12 - 2 March. Springer International Publishing. pp. 1123 - 1129. ISSN: 2367-1181 Open Access Link

Conference paper

Al-Helal, K., Stone, I. and Fan, ZY. (2016) 'Refinement of primary silicon crystals by novel P-doped γ-Al2O3 particles in solidification of hypereutectic Al-Si alloys'.The 15th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys. Chongqing. 1 Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.. pp. 550 - 557. ISSN: 0255-5476 Open Access Link

Conference paper