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  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

W.M. Rainforth is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Metals and Alloys, and Biomaterials.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics, with an emphasis on the microstructure and mechanical properties of steels, metal alloys wear and properties, metal and thin film mechanics, advanced materials and composites, aluminum alloys composites properties, hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals, as well as magnesium alloys properties and applications.

Some of the recent publications by W.M. Rainforth include:

  • "Facile route to bulk ultrafine-grain steels for high strength and ductility" (2021), Nature
  • "Hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms in advanced high strength steel" (2021), Acta Materialia
  • "Hydrogen embrittlement through the formation of low-energy dislocation nanostructures in nanoprecipitation-strengthened steels" (2020), Science Advances
  • "Effect of ageing on the microstructural evolution in a new design of maraging steels with carbon" (2020), Acta Materialia
  • "Sliding speed influence on the tribo-corrosion behaviour of Ti6Al4V alloy in simulated body fluid" (2021), Tribology International

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rainforth include John Nutter, Jiahui Qi, Peng Gong, Dikai Guan, and Junheng Gao.

Their work has been published repeatedly in journals such as Wear, SSRN Electronic Journal, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Tribology International, reflecting a focus on both the mechanical behavior of metals and corrosion processes.

W.M. Rainforth was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Ceramic microstructures : property control by processing

    William E. Lee;W. Mark Rainforth

  • Segregation mediated heterogeneous structure in a metastable β titanium alloy with a superior combination of strength and ductility

    Junheng Gao;John Nutter;Xingguang Liu;Dikai Guan

  • Direct observation of individual hydrogen atoms at trapping sites in a ferritic steel

    Yi S. Chen;Danel Haley;Stephan S.A. Gerstl;Andrew J. London

  • Deformation mechanisms in a metastable beta titanium twinning induced plasticity alloy with high yield strength and high strain hardening rate

    Junheng Gao;Yuhe Huang;Dikai Guan;Alexander J. Knowles

  • Twin recrystallization mechanisms and exceptional contribution to texture evolution during annealing in a magnesium alloy

    Dikai Guan;W. Mark Rainforth;Le Ma;Brad Wynne

  • Facile route to bulk ultrafine-grain steels for high strength and ductility

    Junheng Gao;Suihe Jiang;Huairuo Zhang;Yuhe Huang

  • Predicting microstructure and strength of maraging steels: Elemental optimisation

    Enrique Isidoro Galindo-Nava;WM Rainforth;Pej Rivera-Díaz-del-Castillo

  • Individual effect of recrystallisation nucleation sites on texture weakening in a magnesium alloy: Part 1- double twins

    Dikai Guan;W. Mark Rainforth;Junheng Gao;Joanne Sharp

  • Precipitation of NbC in a model austenitic steel

    W.M. Rainforth;M.P. Black;R.L. Higginson;E.J. Palmiere

  • Basal slip mediated tension twin variant selection in magnesium WE43 alloy

    Dikai Guan;Bradley Wynne;Junheng Gao;Yuhe Huang

  • Development of Microstructure and Crystallographic Texture during Stationary Shoulder Friction Stir Welding of Ti-6Al-4V

    P. S. Davies;B. P. Wynne;W. M. Rainforth;M. J. Thomas

  • Dissolution and precipitation behaviour in steels microalloyed with niobium during thermomechanical processing

    P. Gong;E.J. Palmiere;W.M. Rainforth

  • Wear and friction of TiAlN/VN coatings against Al2O3 in air at room and elevated temperatures

    Z. Zhou;W.M. Rainforth;Q. Luo;P.Eh. Hovsepian

  • The wear behaviour of oxide ceramics-A Review

    W. M. Rainforth

  • Hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms in advanced high strength steel

    Peng Gong;Andrej Turk;John Nutter;Feng Yu

  • Wear mechanisms experienced by a work roll grade high speed steel under different environmental conditions

    N.F. Garza-Montes-de-Oca;W.M. Rainforth

  • A quantitative analysis of the influence of carbides size distributions on wear behaviour of high-speed steel in dry rolling/sliding contact

    C. Rodenburg;W.M. Rainforth

  • Dry wear behaviour and its relation to microstructure of novel 6092 aluminium alloy–Ni3Al powder metallurgy composite

    Y. Wang;W. M. Rainforth;H. Jones;Marcela Lieblich

  • Mechanical and electrochemical characterisation of new Ti-Mo-Nb-Zr alloys for biomedical applications.

    Paul S. Nnamchi;Paul S. Nnamchi;C.S. Obayi;Iain Todd;M.W. Rainforth

  • The wear behaviour of high-chromium white cast irons as a function of silicon and Mischmetal content

    A. Bedolla Jacuinde;W.M. Rainforth

  • The role of trace additions of alumina to yttria–tetragonal zirconia polycrystals (Y–TZP)

    I.M Ross;W.M Rainforth;D.W McComb;A.J Scott

  • Deformation structures induced by sliding contact

    W. M. Rainforth;R. Stevens;J. Nutting

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Beynon
John H. Beynon Flinders University
Wolf-Dieter Münz
Wolf-Dieter Münz Sheffield Hallam University
Ian M. Reaney
Ian M. Reaney University of Sheffield
Susan Trolier-McKinstry
Susan Trolier-McKinstry Pennsylvania State University
Xiaorong Zhou
Xiaorong Zhou University of Manchester
Stephen Jesse
Stephen Jesse Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Clive A. Randall
Clive A. Randall Pennsylvania State University
Rik Brydson
Rik Brydson University of Leeds
Sergei V. Kalinin
Sergei V. Kalinin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
S. van der Zwaag
S. van der Zwaag Delft University of Technology

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