The doctoral thesis of Eugenia Nieto-Valeiras entitled “BEffect of grain boundaries on the deformation and fracture of metallic polycrystals” has obtained the Award to the Best Doctoral thesis from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Congratulations to Eugenia for this deserved
The publication entitled “Effect of precipitates on the dominant active slip systems in Mg-4.5Zn (wt.%) alloy” by B. Yang, J. Wang, M. R. Ghandehari Ferdowsi, Q. Chao, X. Gao, Y. Li, Y. Zhu, M. Barnett, J. LLorca, Acta Materialia, 278,
The title of the seminar was “Experimental and Computational Analysis of the Effect of Grain Boundaries on Deformation and Fracture of Ti” and was followed by an intense debate with faculty and students from Tsinghua University.
Congratulations to Biaobiao for these appointments!.
The thesis was supervised by Prof. Javier LLorca and Dr. Mónica Echeverry-Rendón and obtained the highest grade “Sobresaliente cum laude”. Congratulations to the new doctor from the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials group.
The title and co-authors of her presentation were “Ascertaining the plastic deformation mechanisms of polycrystalline Zn and Mg through in situ HRDIC and EBSD”. A. Rezaei, N. Mollaei, M. Sarebanzadeh, B. Yang, S. M. Fatemi, J. LLorca. The presentation summarized
Maral sarebanzadeh has received the Acta Student Award for his primary contribution to the paper: M. Sarebanzadeh, A. Orozco-Caballero, E. Nieto-Valeiras, J. LLorca – Twin nucleation at grain boundaries in Mg analyzed through in situ electron backscatter diffraction and high-resolution
The new project to study the fundamental mechanisms of hydrogen embrittlement in metals is supported by MIT through the MIT-Spain Universidad Politécnica de Madrid seed fund. The principal investigators are Dr. Ming Dao (MIT ) and Prof. Javier LLorca (UPM).
The thesis was supervised by Prof. Javier LLorca and obtained the highest grade “Sobresaliente cum laude”. Congratulations to the new doctor from the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials group. The doctoral work of Dr. Yang obtained the Acta Materialia Student Award and
The title of the plenary talk was “Manufacturing, mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of Zn and Zn alloys for biomedical applications”
