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Overview

Leo Kestens is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a research portfolio that spans engineering and materials science, with a particular focus on mechanical engineering and materials chemistry. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions to understanding microstructure and mechanical properties, additive manufacturing materials and processes, as well as metallurgy and material forming.

The main topics of their work cover:

  • Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
  • Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • Metallurgy and Material Forming
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Hadi Pirgazi
  • Mohsen Mohammadi
  • Mehdi Sanjari
  • Babak Shalchi Amirkhiz
  • Tuan Nguyen-Minh

Key publication venues where their work often appears are:

  • Materials Characterization
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Materials Science and Engineering A
  • Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
  • IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering

Among their recent papers are:

  • Plastic deformation throughout strain-induced phase transformation in additively manufactured maraging steels, 2020, Materials & Design
  • Selective laser melted stainless steel CX: Role of built orientation on microstructure and micro-mechanical properties, 2020, Materials Science and Engineering A
  • On the solidification characteristics, deformation, and functionally graded interfaces in additively manufactured hybrid aluminum alloys, 2020, International Journal of Plasticity
  • Analysis of ESAFORM 2021 cup drawing benchmark of an Al alloy, critical factors for accuracy and efficiency of FE simulations, 2022, International Journal of Material Forming
  • Development of ultrafine grained Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy by equal channel angular pressing: microstructure, texture and mechanical properties, 2020, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering

Their research has generated citations across a wide range of advanced materials topics, contributing to a deeper understanding of the microstructural behavior and mechanical performance of various alloys and manufacturing processes.

Best Publications

  • Microstructure and texture evolution during cold rolling and annealing of a high Mn TWIP steel

    Lieven Bracke;Kim Verbeken;Leo Kestens;Leo Kestens;Jan Penning

  • Texture formation in metal alloys with cubic crystal structures

    Leo Kestens;Hadi Pirgazi

  • Effect of fresh martensite on the stability of retained austenite in quenching and partitioning steel

    Dorien De Knijf;Roumen Petrov;Roumen Petrov;Cecilia Föjer;Leo A.I. Kestens;Leo A.I. Kestens

  • Microstructure and texture of a lightly deformed TRIP-assisted steel characterized by means of the EBSD technique

    Roumen Petrov;Roumen Petrov;Leo Kestens;Leo Kestens;Anna Wasilkowska;Yvan Houbaert

  • Microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of AA1100 aluminum sheet processed by accumulative roll bonding

    Hadi Pirgazi;A Akbarzadeh;Roumen Petrov;Leo Kestens

  • Microstructural and crystallographic aspects of conventional and asymmetric rolling processes

    Jurij Sidor;Alexis Miroux;Roumen Petrov;Roumen Petrov;Leo Kestens

  • Nucleation and variant selection of secondary α plates in a β Ti alloy

    S.M.C. van Bohemen;A. Kamp;R.H. Petrov;R.H. Petrov;L.A.I. Kestens

  • Transformation mechanism of α′-martensite in an austenitic Fe–Mn–C–N alloy

    Lieven Bracke;Leo Kestens;Leo Kestens;Jan Penning

  • Through process texture evolution and magnetic properties of high Si non-oriented electrical steels

    Jurij J. Sidor;Kim Verbeken;Edgar Gomes;Juergen Schneider

  • Texture Control During the Manufacturing of Nonoriented Electrical Steels

    Leo Kestens;Sigrid Jacobs

  • Factors influencing the austenite stability during tensile testing of Quenching and Partitioning steel determined via in-situ electron backscatter diffraction

    Dorien De Knijf;Cecilia Föjer;Leo A.I. Kestens;Leo A.I. Kestens;Roumen Petrov;Roumen Petrov

  • Ultra grain refinement and hardening of IF-steel during accumulative roll-bonding

    A.L.M. Costa;A.C.C. Reis;L. Kestens;M.S. Andrade

  • The evolution of cube ({001} ) texture in non-oriented electrical steel

    Mehdi Mehdi;Mehdi Mehdi;Youliang He;Erik J. Hilinski;Leo A.I. Kestens

  • Microtextural study of orientation change during nucleation and growth in a cold rolled ULC steel

    Kim Verbeken;Leo Kestens;Jj Jonas

  • Modeling texture change during the static recrystallization of interstitial free steels

    L. Kestens;J. J. Jonas

  • Occurrence of shear bands in rotated Goss ({1 1 0}〈1 1 0〉) orientations of metals with bcc crystal structure

    T. Nguyen-Minh;J.J. Sidor;R.H. Petrov;R.H. Petrov;L.A.I. Kestens;L.A.I. Kestens

  • A new ultrahigh-strength stainless steel strengthened by various coexisting nanoprecipitates

    W. Xu;P.E.J. Rivera-Díaz-del-Castillo;W. Yan;K. Yang

  • Scanning electrochemical microscopy to study the effect of crystallographic orientation on the electrochemical activity of pure copper

    E. Martinez-Lombardia;Y. Gonzalez-Garcia;Y. Gonzalez-Garcia;L. Lapeire;I. De Graeve

  • Formation of {111} and {111} Textures in Cold Rolled and Annealed IF Sheet Steel

    Matthew R Barnett;L Kestens

  • Direct observation of the twinning mechanism in an austenitic Fe-Mn-C steel

    Lieven Bracke;Leo Kestens;Leo Kestens;Jan Penning

Frequent Co-Authors

Roumen Petrov
Roumen Petrov Ghent University
Kim Verbeken
Kim Verbeken Ghent University
Herman Terryn
Herman Terryn Vrije Universiteit Brussel
John J. Jonas
John J. Jonas McGill University
P. Van Houtte
P. Van Houtte KU Leuven
Babak Shalchi Amirkhiz
Babak Shalchi Amirkhiz Natural Resources Canada
Jilt Sietsma
Jilt Sietsma Delft University of Technology
Mohsen Mohammadi
Mohsen Mohammadi University of New Brunswick
Indradev Samajdar
Indradev Samajdar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Amir Hossein Kokabi
Amir Hossein Kokabi Sharif University of Technology

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