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Overview

Christopher Woodward is affiliated with the United States Air Force Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within engineering, with particular emphasis on mechanical engineering and materials chemistry. Additional research interests include artificial intelligence, marketing, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to studies in several key areas. These main topics of work include:

  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties
  • Advanced materials and composites
  • High Temperature Alloys and Creep
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • Titanium Alloys Microstructure and Properties
  • High-Temperature Coating Behaviors

Frequently published venues for their work include:

  • Acta Materialia
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Materialia

Their collaborative network includes several regular co-authors such as S.I. Rao, Brahim Akdim, E. Antillon, Jörg Schad, and Rajiv Sambasivan.

Significant papers authored or co-authored by Christopher Woodward include:

  • Chemical short range order strengthening in a model FCC high entropy alloy (2020, Acta Materialia)
  • Theory of solid solution strengthening of BCC Chemically Complex Alloys (2021, Acta Materialia)
  • Chemical short range order strengthening in BCC complex concentrated alloys (2021, Acta Materialia)
  • Intrinsic factors responsible for brittle versus ductile nature of refractory high-entropy alloys (2024, Nature Communications)
  • A model for interstitial solid solution strengthening of body centered cubic metals (2020, Materialia)

Woodward's work addresses complex topics surrounding the mechanical behavior and strengthening mechanisms of high entropy alloys and chemically complex alloys. The research covers both face-centered cubic (FCC) and body-centered cubic (BCC) crystal structures, investigating short range order effects and intrinsic factors that influence ductility and brittleness in refractory alloys.

This collective body of work contributes to a deeper understanding of alloy design and mechanical performance at elevated temperatures, relevant for aerospace and advanced materials applications linked to national research priorities.

Best Publications

  • Microstructure and Room Temperature Properties of a High-Entropy TaNbHfZrTi Alloy (Postprint)

    O.N. Senkov;J.M. Scott;S.V. Senkova;D.B. Miracle

  • Exploration and Development of High Entropy Alloys for Structural Applications

    Daniel B. Miracle;Jonathan D. Miller;Oleg N. Senkov;Christopher Woodward

  • Microstructure and Elevated Temperature Properties of a Refractory TaNbHfZrTi Alloy

    O. N. Senkov;J. M. Scott;S. V. Senkova;F. Meisenkothen

  • Effect of aluminum on the microstructure and properties of two refractory high-entropy alloys

    O.N. Senkov;S.V. Senkova;C. Woodward

  • Accelerated exploration of multi-principal element alloys with solid solution phases

    O N Senkov;J D Miller;D B Miracle;C Woodward

  • Mechanical properties of low-density, refractory multi-principal element alloys of the Cr–Nb–Ti–V–Zr system

    O.N. Senkov;S.V. Senkova;D.B. Miracle;C. Woodward

  • Low-Density, Refractory Multi-Principal Element Alloys of the Cr-Nb-Ti-V-Zr System: Microstructure and Phase Analysis (Postprint)

    O.N. Senkov;S.V. Senkova;C. Woodward;D.B. Miracle

  • Scale-Free Intermittent Flow in Crystal Plasticity

    Dennis M. Dimiduk;Chris Woodward;Richard LeSar;Michael D. Uchic

  • Microstructure and Properties of Aluminum-Containing Refractory High-Entropy Alloys

    O. N. Senkov;C. Woodward;D. B. Miracle

  • Microstructure and properties of a refractory NbCrMo0.5Ta0.5TiZr alloy

    O.N. Senkov;C.F. Woodward

  • Athermal mechanisms of size-dependent crystal flow gleaned from three-dimensional discrete dislocation simulations

    S.I. Rao;D.M. Dimiduk;T.A. Parthasarathy;M.D. Uchic

  • Quantitative prediction of solute strengthening in aluminium alloys

    Gerard Paul M. Leyson;William A. Curtin;Louis G. Hector;Christopher F. Woodward

  • Oxidation behavior of a refractory NbCrMo0.5Ta0.5TiZr alloy

    D. M. Dimiduk;C. Woodward;D. B. Miracle;O. N. Senkov

  • Flexible Ab initio boundary conditions: simulating isolated dislocations in bcc Mo and Ta

    C. Woodward;S. I. Rao

  • Accelerated exploration of multi-principal element alloys for structural applications

    O.N. Senkov;J.D. Miller;D.B. Miracle;C. Woodward

  • The Chemistry of Deformation: How Solutes Soften Pure Metals

    Dallas R. Trinkle;Christopher Woodward

  • Compositional effect on microstructure and properties of NbTiZr-based complex concentrated alloys

    O.N. Senkov;S. Rao;K.J. Chaput;C. Woodward

  • Atomistic simulations of dislocations in a model BCC multicomponent concentrated solid solution alloy

    S.I. Rao;C. Varvenne;C. Varvenne;C. Woodward;T.A. Parthasarathy

  • Chemical short range order strengthening in a model FCC high entropy alloy

    E. Antillon;C. Woodward;S.I. Rao;B. Akdim

  • Prediction of dislocation cores in aluminum from density functional theory.

    C. Woodward;Dallas Trinkle;Dallas Trinkle;L. G. Hector;D. L. Olmsted

  • Estimating the strength of single-ended dislocation sources in micron-sized single crystals

    S. I. Rao;D. M. Dimiduk;M. Tang;T. A. Parthasarathy

  • Electronic structure of planar faults in TiAl

    C. Woodward;J.M. MacLaren;S. Rao

Frequent Co-Authors

Triplicane A. Parthasarathy
Triplicane A. Parthasarathy United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Dennis M. Dimiduk
Dennis M. Dimiduk The Ohio State University
Oleg N. Senkov
Oleg N. Senkov United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Michael D. Uchic
Michael D. Uchic United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Daniel B. Miracle
Daniel B. Miracle United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Mark Asta
Mark Asta University of California, Berkeley
David N. Seidman
David N. Seidman Northwestern University
Dennis M. Dimiduk
Dennis M. Dimiduk The Ohio State University
William A. Curtin
William A. Curtin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Emmanuelle A. Marquis
Emmanuelle A. Marquis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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