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Associate Professor Edmund Tarleton Senior Research Fellow in Materials Engineering

Professor

Edmund Tarleton MSc DPhil

UKAEA / Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow in Materials Modelling for Fusion Energy

Associate Professor

Supernumerary Fellow at St Anne's

Biography

Ed is a UKAEA / Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow in Materials Modelling for Fusion Energy, an Associate Professor in the Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering Group and a Supernumerary Fellow at St Anne's College. He develops computational models of engineering materials specialising in crystal plasticity. Previous awards include an EPSRC early career Fellowship (2015-2021) and Rising Star in Computational Materials Science Prize in 2019. He completed his DPhil in Materials Science and MSc in Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing at Oriel College, Oxford.

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Most Recent Publications

Modelling the Bauschinger effect in copper during preliminary load cycles

Modelling the Bauschinger effect in copper during preliminary load cycles

Direct imaging of hydrogen-driven dislocation and strain field evolution in a stainless steel grain

Direct imaging of hydrogen-driven dislocation and strain field evolution in a stainless steel grain

Restraining geometrically-necessary dislocations to the active slip systems in a crystal plasticity-based finite element framework

Restraining geometrically-necessary dislocations to the active slip systems in a crystal plasticity-based finite element framework

Discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of〈a〉-type prismatic loops in zirconium

Discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of〈a〉-type prismatic loops in zirconium

A robust and efficient hybrid solver for crystal plasticity

A robust and efficient hybrid solver for crystal plasticity

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Research Interests

  • Discrete dislocation plasticity
  • Crystal plasticity
  • Coupled mechanical/diffusion models
  • Cohesive zone modelling

HEms Project

The Hydrogen Embrittlement of Steels (HEMS) project was a consortium funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council to study the damage caused to steels by exposure to hydrogen. Upon exposure to hydrogen steels demonstrate a dramatic decrease in their tensile strength and instead of bending and stretching, the steel "cracks" in a brittle fashion. The HEMS consortium was a collaboration between a number of UK universities to study this phenomenon and elucidate the physical mechanisms underpinning it. If steels could be manufactured which are resistant to this effect it would enable a range of new technologies in the fields of energy and transport, and would be an essential step towards transforming to a hydrogen based energy economy.

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Most Recent Publications

Modelling the Bauschinger effect in copper during preliminary load cycles

Modelling the Bauschinger effect in copper during preliminary load cycles

Direct imaging of hydrogen-driven dislocation and strain field evolution in a stainless steel grain

Direct imaging of hydrogen-driven dislocation and strain field evolution in a stainless steel grain

Restraining geometrically-necessary dislocations to the active slip systems in a crystal plasticity-based finite element framework

Restraining geometrically-necessary dislocations to the active slip systems in a crystal plasticity-based finite element framework

Discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of〈a〉-type prismatic loops in zirconium

Discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of〈a〉-type prismatic loops in zirconium

A robust and efficient hybrid solver for crystal plasticity

A robust and efficient hybrid solver for crystal plasticity

View all

DPhil studentship

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Most Recent Publications

Modelling the Bauschinger effect in copper during preliminary load cycles

Modelling the Bauschinger effect in copper during preliminary load cycles

Direct imaging of hydrogen-driven dislocation and strain field evolution in a stainless steel grain

Direct imaging of hydrogen-driven dislocation and strain field evolution in a stainless steel grain

Restraining geometrically-necessary dislocations to the active slip systems in a crystal plasticity-based finite element framework

Restraining geometrically-necessary dislocations to the active slip systems in a crystal plasticity-based finite element framework

Discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of〈a〉-type prismatic loops in zirconium

Discrete dislocation dynamics simulations of〈a〉-type prismatic loops in zirconium

A robust and efficient hybrid solver for crystal plasticity

A robust and efficient hybrid solver for crystal plasticity

View all