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  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Fionn P.E. Dunne is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields, with a primary focus on engineering and materials science. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as materials chemistry, mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their scholarly work concentrates on topics including fatigue and fracture mechanics, microstructure and mechanical properties, high temperature alloys and creep, nuclear materials and properties, fusion materials and technologies, titanium alloys microstructure and properties, as well as high-velocity impact and material behavior.

Among their recent publications are notable papers such as:

  • Predicting dwell fatigue life in titanium alloys using modelling and experiment (2020, Nature Communications)
  • A crystal plasticity investigation of slip system interaction, GND density and stored energy in non-proportional fatigue in Nickel-based superalloy (2020, International Journal of Fatigue)
  • Microstructural fracture mechanics: Stored energy density at fatigue cracks (2020, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids)
  • A crystal plasticity approach to understand fatigue response with respect to pores in additive manufactured aluminium alloys (2022, International Journal of Fatigue)
  • The mechanistic link between macrozones and dwell fatigue in titanium alloys (2020, International Journal of Fatigue)

Throughout their career, Dunne has published frequently in several scientific venues, with major contributions appearing in:

  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • International Journal of Fatigue
  • International Journal of Plasticity
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their body of work involves collaboration with several coauthors, including:

  • Yilun Xu
  • Yang Liu
  • T. Ben Britton
  • Weifeng Wan
  • C.M. Gourlay

Dunne's contributions have been formally recognized with the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) awarded in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Introduction to computational plasticity

    Fionn Dunne;Nik Petrinic

  • Microstructure-sensitive computational modeling of fatigue crack formation

    D.L. McDowell;F.P.E. Dunne

  • Lengthscale-dependent, elastically anisotropic, physically-based hcp crystal plasticity: Application to cold-dwell fatigue in Ti alloys

    F.P.E. Dunne;D. Rugg;A. Walker

  • High– and low–cycle fatigue crack initiation using polycrystal plasticity

    A. Manonukul;F. P. E. Dunne

  • Experimental and computational studies of low cycle fatigue crack nucleation in a polycrystal

    F.P.E. Dunne;A.J. Wilkinson;R. Allen

  • The effect of crystal orientation on the indentation response of commercially pure titanium: experiments and simulations

    T. B. Britton;H. Liang;F. P. E. Dunne;A. J. Wilkinson

  • On the mechanistic basis of deformation at the microscale in hexagonal close-packed metals

    T. B. Britton;F. P. E. Dunne;A. J. Wilkinson

  • 〈a〉 Prismatic, 〈a〉 basal, and 〈c+a〉 slip strengths of commercially pure Zr by micro-cantilever tests

    Jicheng Gong;T. Benjamin Britton;Mitchell A. Cuddihy;Fionn P.E. Dunne

  • Comparative assessment of dissipated energy and other fatigue criteria

    Alexander M. Korsunsky;Daniele Dini;Fionn P.E. Dunne;Michael J. Walsh

  • On the mechanisms of fatigue facet nucleation in titanium alloys

    F. P. E. Dunne;D. Rugg

  • A stored energy criterion for fatigue crack nucleation in polycrystals

    V.V.C. Wan;D.W. MacLachlan;F.P.E. Dunne

  • Is stored energy density the primary meso-scale mechanistic driver for fatigue crack nucleation?

    Bo Chen;Jun Jiang;Fionn P.E. Dunne

  • A systematic study of hcp crystal orientation and morphology effects in polycrystal deformation and fatigue

    F.P.E Dunne;A Walker;D Rugg

  • The role of elastic anisotropy, length scale and crystallographic slip in fatigue crack nucleation

    C.A. Sweeney;W. Vorster;S.B. Leen;E. Sakurada

  • Crystal plasticity analysis of micro-deformation, lattice rotation and geometrically necessary dislocation density

    F. P. E. Dunne;R. Kiwanuka;A. J. Wilkinson

  • Crystal plasticity modelling and HR-DIC measurement of slip activation and strain localization in single and oligo-crystal Ni alloys under fatigue

    Yongjun Guan;Bo Chen;Jinwen Zou;T. Ben Britton

  • Slip transfer across phase boundaries in dual phase titanium alloys and the effect on strain rate sensitivity

    Zebang Zheng;Sana Waheed;Daniel S. Balint;Fionn P.E. Dunne

  • Microstructurally sensitive crack nucleation around inclusions in powder metallurgy nickel-based superalloys

    J. Jiang;J. Yang;T. Zhang;J. Zou

  • Physically-based model for creep in nickel-base superalloy C263 both above and below the gamma solvus

    A. Manonukul;F.P.E. Dunne;D. Knowles

  • Intrinsic anisotropy of strain rate sensitivity in single crystal alpha titanium

    Zhen Zhang;Tea-Sung Jun;T. Benjamin Britton;Fionn P.E. Dunne

  • Determination of Ti-6242 α and β slip properties using micro-pillar test and computational crystal plasticity

    Zhen Zhang;Tea-Sung Jun;T. Benjamin Britton;Fionn P.E. Dunne

Frequent Co-Authors

David R Hayhurst
David R Hayhurst University of Manchester
Angus J. Wilkinson
Angus J. Wilkinson University of Oxford
Michael J. S. Lowe
Michael J. S. Lowe Imperial College London
Jianguo Lin
Jianguo Lin Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Brian Cantor
Brian Cantor University of Oxford
Alan C.F. Cocks
Alan C.F. Cocks University of Oxford
Daniele Dini
Daniele Dini Imperial College London
Patrick S. Grant
Patrick S. Grant University of Oxford
William J. Clegg
William J. Clegg University of Cambridge
Alexander M. Korsunsky
Alexander M. Korsunsky University of Oxford

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