Professor Yu-Lung Chiu BE, PhD

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Professor of Physical Metallurgy

Contact details

Telephone: (+44) (0) 121 414 5190
Email: y.chiu@bham.ac.uk

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

Yu-Lung Chiu is a Professor of Physical Metallurgy in School of Metallurgy and Materials. His research often involves microstructural characterisation using electron microscopy techniques and also small-scale mechanical characterisation to understand the fundamental plasticity mechanisms in crystalline materials, which hopefully will be able to improve the understanding of the behaviour of advanced engineering alloys at macroscopic scales. He researches into advanced alloys with complex composition and microstructure for aerospace, nuclear and automotive applications, but sometimes also uses simple model alloy systems for mechanistic studies.

Qualifications

PhD in Materials Science, University of Hong Kong, China, 1999
BE in Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang China, 1994

Biography

Professor Yu-Lung Chiu studied Metallurgy for his BE degree at Northeastern University (Shenyang, China) and went on to study for a PhD in Materials Science at the University of Hong Kong (China).

He spent a few years doing research and teaching at universities and research institutes in Hong Kong, France, Switzerland and New Zealand before his current employment at the University of Birmingham.

Teaching

Undergraduate Level:

Advanced Failure Analysis and Characterisation (Y3)
Electron Microscopy (Y4)

Postgraduate Level:

Physical Metallurgy (MSc)
Materials Characterisation (MSc)

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Chiu is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following two areas:

Electron Microscopy
Physical Metallurgy

If you are interested in studying in these areas please contact him using the contact details above.

Research

RESEARCH THEMES

Electron Microscopy

Microstructure characterisation of advanced structural materials;
Microanalysis and phase determination
In-situ electron microscopy studies

Physical Metallurgy

Plastic deformation mechanisms
Light alloys
Strengthening mechanisms
Nuclear irradiation and materials degradation

More details can be found from the Electron Microscopy Group website at http://bhamem.wordpress.com/

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Magnesium alloys for bio-medical applications
Precipitation hardening in magnesium alloys
Microstructure characterisation of pipeline steels
Microstructure characterisation of inertial friction weld in nickel-base superalloy
Microstructure characterisation of linear friction welded titanium alloys
Microstructure and nanomechanical properties of copper nanowires
Electron tomography
Micro-nano-mechanical property assessment
Severe plastic deformation of light alloys
Electron diffraction and nanomechanical properties of amorphous materials

Other activities

Member of Institute of Physics
Fellow of IoM3

Publications

R. Ding, C. Chung, Y.L. Chiu, P. Lyon, Effect of ECAP on microstructure and mechanical properties of ZE41 magnesium alloy, Materials Science and Engineering A, 527, 3777 – 3784, (2010).

Y.J. Huang, Y.L. Chiu, J. Shen, J. Chen, J.F. Sun, Cooling rate effect of nanomechanical response for a Ti-based bulk metallic glass, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 356, 966 – 970, (2010).

Y.J. Huang, Y.L. Chiu, J. Shen, J. Chen, J.F. Sun, Indentation creep of a Ti-based metallic glass, Journal of Materials Research, 24, 993 – 997. (2010)

Y.J. Huang, Y.L. Chiu, J. Shen, J. Chen, J.F. Sun, Mechanical performance of metallic glasses during nanoscratch tests, Intermetallics, 18, 1056-1061, (2010)

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