Hamid Abdolvand - starting new group at Western

Hamid Abdolvand is about to take up an Assistant Professorship at the Western University, Ontario. We wish him every success as he begins the exciting task of setting up the Multi-Scale Deformation Lab in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and look forward to continuing collaboration over the coming years.

While with OMG Hamid made some great contributions to the HexMat programme grant. This included continuing his work on deformation twinning in Zr alloys by adding some HR-EBSD mapping of elastic strains and dislocation densities in the vicinity of the twin tips, and extending his existing crystal plasticty FEA code.  The HR-EBSD data can is on Zenodo. 

He also ran some 3D-XRD experiments at the ESRF and with dedicated effort  over many months afterwards produced datasets containng grain-averaged lattice strain tensors mapped over many individual grains followed during in situ mechanical loading.  The data can be found on Zenodo.