Professor Paul Bowen

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Feeney Professor of Metallurgy

Contact details

Telephone: Tel: (+44) (0)121 414 5222
Fax: (+44) (0) 121 414 7468
Email: g.vasiljevic@bham.ac.uk

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Address: School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Qualifications

PhD, Cambridge, 1984
MA, Cambridge, 1980

Research

Research Interests:

Characterisation, development, fracture and fatigue of alloys and composite materials (MMCs and CMCs)
Measurement, use, modelling and control of crack growth resistance through fracture mechanics concepts
Prediction of properties through correlating microstructural parameters with micromechanisms of failure
Behaviour of cracks in non-uniform stress fields is a subject of generic interest
Elevated temperature performance
Design codes, and prediction of the behaviour of components
Fracture and fatigue studies of conventional materials

Publications

Selected publications:

J Liu, P Bowen. 2002. Fatigue crack growth in a Ti beta 21s/SCS-6 composite, Acta Materialia, 50, 17, 4205-4218. Publication code: 10269.

ZW Huang, P Bowen, IP Jo nes. 2001. Transmission electron microscopy investigation of fatigue crack tip plastic zones in a polycrystalline gamma-TiAl-based alloy, Philosophical Magazine. A. Physics of Condensed Matter. Defects and Mechanical Properties, 81, 9, 2183-2197. Publication code: 2877.

J Luo, P Bowen. 2003. A Probabilistic Methodology for Fatigue Life Prediction, Acta Materialia, 51, 12, 3537-3550. Publication code: 16222.

MD Halliday, C Cooper, P Bowen. 2007. On small fatigue crack growth and crack closure under mixed-mode and through zero loading in the aluminium alloys 2024-T351 and 8090-T8771, International Jo urnal of Fatigue, 29, 7, 1195-1207. Publication code: 48960.

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