Prof Gordon Tatlock BSc, PhD, FInst P, CPhys, FIMMM, CEng, FRMS

Henry Bell Wortley Professor of Materials Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Research

Degradation of High Temperature Materials

The application of electron microscopy and surface analysis to a wide range of materials problems including: oxidation of metals, segregation, embrittlement and oxide dispersion strengthening of alloys. The unifying theme throughout all these studies is the use of high spatial resolution analytical electron microscopy and surface analysis to study segregation to surfaces and interfaces in these different structures. By understanding how reactions develop with time and thermal treatment, it is possible to determine what controls the underlying degradation mechanisms; and hence how to improve materials for the future.

Research Group Membership

  • Structural Materials and Infrastructure

Research Grants

Materials for fusion & fission power

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

December 2009 - September 2015

Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Materials for the Additive Manufacture of High Temperature Components in Power Generation (OXIGEN).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

February 2013 - January 2017

Optimisation of microstructure and properties in commerical ODS alloys.

US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (USA)

February 2010 - September 2014

Development and application of aberration-corrected electron microscopy (SuperSTEM).

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2003 - March 2008

NiCaL

EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND

December 2011 - June 2015

Surface treated materials for improved life and emissions reduction (SMILER).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

November 2001 - September 2004

Development of torsional grain structures to improve biaxial creep performance of Fe-based ODS alloy tubing for biomass power plant (GRAINTWIST).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

October 1998 - March 2002

Surface segregation and roughening in metals controlled by grain orientation.

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2001 - June 2002

Research Collaborations

Professor Gordon Tatlock

Internal

Collaboration in the SuperSTEM aberration-corrected electron microscope project at Daresbury.