Publications

The thesis was supervised by Prof. Javier LLorca  and Dr. Mónica Echeverry-Rendón and obtained the  grade “Sobresaliente”. Congratulations to the new doctor from the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials group.

The doctoral thesis of Eugenia Nieto-Valeiras entitled “Effect 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

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 thesis was supervised by Prof. Javier LLorca  and Prof. Alberto Orozco Caballero obtained the highest grade “Sobresaliente cum laude”. Congratulations to the new doctor from the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials group. Dr. Sarabanzadeh will continue her research at the Karlsruhe

Javier LLorca was presented with the Magnesium Science & Technology Annual Award given by the International Magnesium Society for his contributions to advance the understanding of microstructure-deformation mechanisms in wrought Mg alloys using in situ mechanical testing and machine learning, to

Dr. Yi Yang has obtained the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship from the Spanish Research Agency. He is working at IMDEA Materials as a post-doctoral research associate in the Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials group and will continue working in the analysis

Victoria Tucker is carrying out her PhD on the analysis of deformation and fracture mechanisms of Ni-based superalloys. Mingdi Yu is working towards her PhD on the deformation mechanisms on novel Mg alloys with high strength and ductility. And Yidi