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Robin Scales (formerly Robert)
Department of Materials
University of Oxford
Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PH
UK
Email: robert.scales@mansfield.ox.ac.uk
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Hi, I am Robin Scales!
I am a current DPhil student supervised by Angus J Wilkinson. The title of my DPhil research is "Microscale and Ultrafast High Cycle Fatigue Testing", which is aiming to investigate the ultrasonic fatigue of nickel superalloys, whilst analysing their microstructure throughout fatigue. The goal is to find results to improve the fatigue lifetime of jet engine blades in the aerospace sector, and thus reduce our environmental impact.
I did my undergraduate here, which included my master's year, where I investigated high-entropy alloys (see Oct 2020 paper below).
The two previous summer projects I have done were: Microstructural and mechanical property characterisation on 3D printed Ni-superalloys for OxMet Technologies (ESPRC sponsored) [2018]; an investigation on the mechanical properties of the solid-state electrolyte LLZO (FUSE sponsored) [2019].
Skills:
- SEM - Standard + EDX + EBSD [Zeiss EVO]
- Nanoindentation CSM method [Agilent XP]
- Vickers Hardness
- Macroscale Mechanical Testing 4-point bending [Shimadzu]
- Cryogenics trained - Specifically liquid nitrogen dewars
- Glovebox Trained
- Slow saw cutting
- Basic Optical Microscopy
- MATLAB
- Finite Element Analysis (ABAQUS)
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