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Robin Scales
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 was a DPhil student supervised by Angus J Wilkinson and Jicheng Gong. My thesis title was "Environmental & Orientation Effects on the Ultrasonic Fatigue of a Single-crystal Nickel Superalloy"
My experiments involved the ultrasonic fatigue of meso-scale nickel superalloys cantilevers in different atmospheres, determined their fatigue response in different environments, and characterised them post-fatigue. This was done to improve the fatigue lifetime of jet engine blades in the aerospace sector and thus reduce our environmental impact.
I did my undergraduate here too, which included my master's year, where I investigated high-entropy alloys (see Oct 2020 paper below). Additionally, I did two previous summer projects in the group: Microstructural and mechanical property characterisation on 3D printed Ni-superalloys for OxMet Technologies (now Alloyed Ltd; ESPRC sponsored) [2018]; investigated the mechanical properties of the solid-state electrolyte LLZO (Faraday, FUSE sponsored) [2019].
Skills:
- SEM - ECCI, EDX, & EBSD [Zeiss EVO, Merlin, Crossbeam]
- Nanoindentation CSM method [Agilent XP]
- Vickers Hardness
- Macroscale Mechanical Testing [Shimadzu]
- Cryogenics trained - Specifically liquid nitrogen dewars
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Glovebox Trained
- Metal and ceramic sample preparation
- Optical Microscopy
- Python & MATLAB
- Finite Element Analysis (ABAQUS)
Articles and Research:
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