美姬阁

Areas of expertise

• Hydrogen
• Aerospace Materials
• Power Systems & Turbines
• Surface Engineering
• Sustainable Manufacturing
• Through-life Engineering Services

Current activities

Simon Gray, Principal Fellow, is responsible for running the Materials Perfomance in Extreme Environments facility in the Surface Engineering and Precision Centre at 美姬阁.

Current activities include:

High-temperature corrosion fatigue (both high cycle and low cycle) looking at performance and development of alloys and coating systems for the gas turbine industry. A major output is to provide data and develop lifing models for critical components. New hydrogen testing capaility.

Materials performance in hydrogen - tensile, fatigue, c-ring, permeation

Accelerated oxidation of alloys and coating systems to rapidly rank materials for use in gas turbines. A cheaper and more selective equivalent to a burner rig.

Machine Learning for NDE evaluation of corrosion damage

Stress corrosion cracking at elevate temperatures

Sustainable manufacturing

High-temperature corrosion of alloys and coatings

Assessing cyclic oxidation performance of new alloys

Oxidation and phase studies of intermetallics

Clients

• Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
• Siemens Energy AG
• MTU Aero Engines AG
• ITP Aero (Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC)
• NASA
• Cannon-Muskegon
• UK Atomic Energy Authority
• Solar Turbines (A Caterpillar Company)

Publications

• Articles in journals
• Conference papers