Wu, Houzheng - Loughborough University - Department of Materials

个人简介

Houzheng attained a B. Eng and M. Eng in Hunan University and Tianjin University, respectively, in China, and D. Phil in Oxford University from the Department of Materials. He started his higher education career in Tianjin University, China as an Assistant Professor, Lecturer, then to Associated Professor and Professor. He became the Director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Techniques, funded by the Ministry of Education, after being the Deputy-Director. He was a Visiting Scientist in Australia Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation for a short period of time, and then awarded a Sino-British Friendship Fellowship for one year. He had worked in Oxford University as a Research Fellow for more than four years. He is a Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University, after a similar post at Coventry University

研究领域

He has longstanding research experience in advanced ceramics, carbon materials and composites from ceramic engine components design and manufacture, strengthening/toughening through transformation and various reinforcements (nanoparticles, short/long fibres), to understanding of contact damage under quasi-static to high strain rates, irradiation damage, and tribological behaviour of contacting materials. His current focus is: Carbon Fibre Reinforced Carbon/Ceramic Composites, including matrix development through various impregnating and depositing technologies, surface coating, and sustainable ways of using raw materials, to improve their performance for various applications, such as light weight, durable and performance brakes, nuclear reactor components and heat shields. Armour Ceramics, including design and manufacture of armour ceramics for better performance by using nano-sized reinforcements to interfere the mechanisms that govern the dynamic damage; understanding the underpinned mechanisms through studying fragments by various microscopy techniques; exploring more accessible techniques to assess the ballistic resistant competency of ceramics. Nuclear Materials, including development of manufacture process of ceramic composites and graphite for Gen IV nuclear reactors; characterisation of mechanical behaviour at micro/mini-meter scales to establish correlations between microstructure and mechanical property at macro-scale; experimentally understanding the impact of microstructure features on the irradiation damage.

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Wu H. Ghosh S., Dancer C.E.J. & Todd R.I. “Ballistic Damage of Alumina Ceramics – Learning from Fragments”, Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, in press 2014 Wu H. “Understanding Residual Stresses and Fracture Toughness in Ceramic Nanocomposites,” Chapter 10 in Residual Stresses in Composite Materials, Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering, Cambridge, UK Wang Y & Wu H. “Microstructure of Friction Surface Developed on Carbon Fibre Reinforced Carbon-Silicon Carbide (Cf/C-SiC), J. Eu. Ceram. Soc., 32[12], 2012, 3509-3519. Swarbric A. & Wu H. “Surface Conditioning of Carbon-fiber Ceramic Rotors against Organic Pads”, SAE Technical Papers;2012-01-1833, 2012. Leatherbarrow A. & Wu H. “Mechanical Behaviour of the Constituents inside Carbon Fibre/Carbon-Silicon Carbide Composites Chatacterised by Nano-indentation. J. Eu. Ceram. Soc., 32[2], 2012, 3509-3519. Wu, H., Wang Y., Pindar D. & Ferdani P. “Interaction Between Ceramic Matrix Composite and Organic Pad Materials and its Impact on the Friction Performance”, SAE Technical Paper 2011-01-2350, 2011. Wu H. “Braking the Mould”, Materials World, 18[1], 2010, 29-30. Wang Y. & Wu H. “Friction Surface Evolution of Carbon-fibre Reinforced Carbon-Silicon Carbide Composites (Cf/C-SiC), J. Eu. Ceram. Soc., 30, 2010, 3187-3201. Wu H.Z., Roberts S.G. & Derby B. “Ductile Deformation in Al2O3/SiC Nanocomposites”, Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, Vol 30[7], 2009, pp 155–165. Wu, H.Z., Roberts, S.G. and Derby, B., ''Residual Stress Distributions Around Indentations and Scratches in Polycrystalline Al2O3/SiC Nanocomposites Measured Using Fluorescence Probes'', Acta Materialia, 56, 2008, pp 140-149. Tanner, B.K., Wu, H. and Roberts, S.G., ''Sub-Surface Damage in Ground and Annealed Alumina and Alumina-Silicon Carbide Nanocomposites'', J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 89(12), 2006, pp 3745-3750. Swanson, P.T., Page, C.J., Read, E. and Wu, H., ''Plasma Augmented Laser Welding of 6 mm Steel Plate'', Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, 12(2), 2007, p 153.