
Dr Matthew Peel
MEng, PhD(Manc.)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
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Research interests
I focus on the use of synchrotron and neutron diffraction to examine important materials and engineering questions. I previously worked at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and my research has continued to exploit the ability of this unique form of radiation to examine how materials behave when you heat and deform them. My work can be broadly seperated into two areas: the determination of stresses in manufactured components and the examination of phase transformations in novel materials. The first catagory includes stresses in friction stir welds and large diameter pipe welds while the second includes stress induced transformations of zirconium hydrides and deformation structures in titanium aluminides.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The memory effect in superalloy in situ composites
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
31/10/2013 to 31/01/2015
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/12/2025A method to compare the effects of the grain boundary misorientation and grain boundary plane orientation on thermal sensitisation
International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
An In-Situ Corrosion Small Punch Test for Developing Stress Corrosion Cracking in Stainless Steel
Experimental Mechanics
Towards a Data-Driven Evolutionary Model of the Cyclic Behaviour of Austenitic Steels
ASME 2024 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference