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Prof. Martin Jackson

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Position:
Director (STAR), Professor of Advanced Metals Processing, Henry Royce Institute Research Area Lead

After obtaining an M.Eng (First) from The University of Sheffield, Martin initially followed an aerospace materials career working for Rolls-Royce before studying for his PhD at Imperial College London.

In 2003 he was awarded the IOM3 Titanium Prize and in 2005 awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellowship and moved back to the department in 2008. Martin was appointed to Senior Lecturer in 2011 and is the UK representative on the World Titanium Committee.

Current Research

His research centres on the effect of solid state processes from upstream extraction technologies through to downstream finishing processes on microstructural evolution and mechanical properties in light alloys, and in particular Ti alloys for the aerospace, automotive and defence sectors.

Major research interests include; (1) providing a step change in the economics of titanium based alloys through the development of new alloys from rutile sand and non-melt powder consolidation routes such as FAST-forge and continuous rotary extrusion; (2) determining microstructure and property evolution in key manufacturing processes such as superplastic forming, forging, machining and shot peening.

Key Publications

  • 1. M. Jackson, R.R Boyer, “Titanium and its Alloys: Processing, Fabrication and Mechanical Properties, Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering”, Edited by Richard Blockley and Wei Shyy (eds), 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-470-75440-5 pp.2117-2132
  • 2. M. Jackson, (2015) “Automotive Applications for Titanium” In D. Crolla, D.E. Foster, T. Kobayashi and N. Vaughan (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Automotive Engineering, John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Chichester, pp. 3125-3140.
  • 3. M. Jackson, “Superplastic forming and diffusion bonding of titanium alloys” Superplastic forming of advanced metallic materials: Methods and applications, Ed. by G Giuliano, © 2011 Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK, ISBN: 1 84569 753 7
  • 4. L.L. Benson, I. Mellor, M. Jackson, Direct reduction of synthetic rutile using the FFC process to produce low-cost novel titanium alloys, Journal of Materials Science (2016) 51:4250–4261
  • 5. N.S. Weston, F. Derguti, A. Tudball, M. Jackson, Spark plasma sintering of commercial and development titanium alloy powders, Journal of Materials Science (2015) 50:pp. 4860–4878
  • 6. P. Crawforth, B. Wynne, S. Turner, M. Jackson, The effect of turning on microstructural damage in titanium alloys, Scripta Materialia 67 (2012) pp. 842-845
  • 7. M. Thomas, T.C Lindley, D. Rugg, M. Jackson, The effect of shot peening on the microstructure and properties of a near-alpha titanium alloy following high temperature exposure, Acta Materialia 60 (13-14) (2012) 5040-5048.
  • 8. M. Thomas, M. Jackson, The role of temperature and alloy chemistry on subsurface deformation mode during shot peening of titanium alloys, Scripta Materialia 66 (2012) 1065-1068
  • 9. M. Thomas, S. Turner, M. Jackson, Microstructural damage during high-speed milling of titanium alloys, Scripta Materialia 62 (2010) 250-253.
  • 10. M. Thomas, T.C Lindley, M. Jackson, The microstructural response of a peened near-alpha titanium alloy to thermal exposure, Scripta Materialia 60 (2009) 108–111.
  • 11. R. Bhagat, M. Jackson, D. Inman and R. Dashwood, The Production of Ti-W Alloys from Mixed Oxide Precursors via the FFC Cambridge Process, J Electrochem Soc, 155 (2009) Vol. 156, E1 – E7.
  • 12. N.G Jones, R. Dashwood, D. Dye, M. Jackson, Thermomechanical Processing of Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-3Cr, Materials Science & Engineering A, 490 (2008) 369-377.
  • 13. M. Jackson, K. Dring, Materials perspective - a review of advances in processing and metallurgy of titanium alloys, Materials Science and Technology. 22 (2006) 881-887.
  • 14. M. Jackson, R.J. Dashwood, L. Christodoulou and H.M. Flower, The microstructural evolution of near beta alloy Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al during subtransus forging, Materials Transactions A, 36A (2005) 1317-27.