Professor Russell Goodall
MEng PhD FIMMM CEng
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Professor of Metallurgy
Director, EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Advanced Metallic Systems
+44 114 222 5977
Full contact details
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
91直播
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Russell Goodall is a metallurgist with extensive experience in the science of porous metals, and the development of novel alloys of many types. He has worked for over 15 years on the processing and thermal and mechanical characterisation of a range of new materials.
He joined the Department in 2008 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He obtained his MEng degree from Oxford University and his PhD from the University of Cambridge, before carrying out postdoctoral research at EPFL. After this he returned to the UK as a lecturer at 91直播, where he is now Professor of Metallurgy.
In 2019, Russell received the Sir Colin Humphreys Education Award by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3). This award recognises Russell's contribution to enhancing students' scientific/technological literacy through the teaching or support of materials, minerals or mining topics within 11-19 learning, either in the secondary or further education sectors.
- Research interests
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Russell鈥檚 main research interests are in the development of new alloys, in particular High Entropy Alloys and alloys with silver, brazing filler metals, the processing, properties and applications of open-celled porous metals, and in mechanical properties of materials in general.
Alloy development
The ability of metallic elements to combine and interact in alloys offers huge potential for materials to be designed and optimised for particular purposes. Within the group we have developed a number of approaches (both theoretical and experimental) which we use to search the vast potential range of compositions to identify alloy formulations with suitable properties. In this regard we explore a wide range of alloys, including those involving refractory elements, transition elements, platinum group elements and low melting point metals. These have potential applications in fields as diverse as metal joining through brazing, to structures that can survive the environment of a nuclear fusion reactor.
Of particular interest in this respect is the behaviour of alloys made of large numbers of elements (typically five or more) combined in similar quantity; for some compositions these can produce single phase alloys with a perhaps unexpectedly simple structure, which are known as High Entropy Alloys (HEA). Within the research group there is effort on both understanding the fundamental formation and properties of this novel alloy class, and in developing HEA and HEA-like compositions for practical applications.
Russell is working on the development of new alloys as part of his RAEng/The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship, Novel Strategies for Designing Alloyed Metals; University of 91直播 (NoStraDAMUS).
Porous metals
This work includes the use of the "replication" process to produce samples of open celled aluminium foam or sponge. In this process a preform of pressed or sintered NaCl grains or agglomerates is infiltrated with liquid aluminium, which occupies the spaces between the grains. After solidification, the salt can be dissolved in water to leave just the aluminium, which "replicates" the spaces in the original perform. This gives an open-celled foam structure with well-defined pore size and density. The relatively high thermal conductivity of pure aluminium, combined with its low density and low cost make such materials interesting for applications requiring heat transfer from or to a fluid medium.
Open-cell foams made from other metals such as titanium can have applications as biomedical implants and electrodes, amongst many others. As well as foams (with pores or cells in random locations), the group also works on porous structures with varying degrees of order, such as 3D lattice structures, which are increasingly easy to produce, even at large sizes and with complex designs, using advanced manufacturing techniques.
Current challenges are the assessment of the suitability of processes for practical fabrication of foam parts, the development of methods to allow production of novel foam architectures, the characterisation of both the mechanical and thermal performance of the material and the further optimisation of the properties for certain applications.
Research group
- Mr Mosalagae Mosalagae is working on the processing and properties of porous copper in thin sheet form for heat transfer applications.
- Mr Haydar Al-Shabbani is working on a collaborative project with of the Department of Mechanical Engineering exploring diamond-aluminium composites for abrasion and cutting resistance.
- Ms Stavrina Dimsothenous works on the discovery and understanding of new High Entropy Alloys, involving the platinum group metals, in a project supported by Johnson Matthey.
- Ms Piyanut Muangtong is exploring the creation of porous materials from High Entropy Alloys.
- Mr Matthew Way is developing new alloys for brazing, focussed on the requirements of joining thermoelectric materials, in a project supported by Johnson Matthey.
- Mr Shaiful Ismail is using the Metal Injection Moulding (MIM) process to create porous copper for heat transfer.
- Mr Liam Hardwick is exploring brazing alloys for high temperature joining of materials such as nickel alloys, in a project supported by VBC.
- Ms Tuba Kizilirmak isexploring lattices processed by Additive Manufacturing methods for spinal fusion devices.
- Mr Hazzaa Alqurashi is looking at the mechanical behaviour of metallic lattices, by combining experimental processing and testing with Finite Element analysis, in a project co-supervised by Dr Julian Dean
- Mr Paul Stavroulakis is investigating High Entropy Alloys for applications in automotive, in a project supported by VW.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Acta Materialia, 256, 119113-119113.
- . Materials Today Communications, 36, 106668-106668.
- . PLOS ONE, 18(7).
- . Journal of Materials Research and Technology.
- . Materials Today Communications, 105524-105524.
- . Materials, 15(15).
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
- . Materials & Design, 218.
- . Intermetallics, 144, 107462-107462.
- . Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 124, 217-231.
- . Metals, 12(3).
- . Journal of Materials Research and Technology.
- . Materialia, 21, 101365-101365.
- . MATEC Web of Conferences, 349, 02002-02002.
- . MATEC Web of Conferences, 349, 02003-02003.
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 161525-161525.
- . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
- . Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A.
- . Materials & Design, 198.
- . Entropy, 23(1).
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 158799-158799.
- . Materials Chemistry and Physics, 262, 124241-124241.
- . Materials Letters, 281.
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 845.
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 837.
- . Scripta Materialia, 185, 159-164.
- . Corrosion Science, 172.
- . Materials Science and Engineering: A, 791.
- . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
- . Journal of Nuclear Materials, 531.
- . Metals, 10(3).
- Sintering and Dimensional Analysis of Cu/CNTs via a Powder Metallurgy Route. Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 17(3), 117-130.
- . Heliyon, 5(12).
- . Materials Characterization.
- . Mechanics Research Communications.
- . Frontiers in Materials, 6.
- . Frontiers in Materials, 6.
- . Materials & Design, 172.
- . International Materials Reviews.
- . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 96, 193-203.
- . Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2019.
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 770, 765-770.
- . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 90, 20-29.
- . International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, 76, 128-133.
- . Composites Part B: Engineering, 145, 155-161.
- . Applied Surface Science, 439, 801-814.
- . Scripta Materialia, 146, 95-99.
- . Advanced Engineering Materials, 19(11).
- . Materials Chemistry and Physics.
- . Metals, 7(8), 300-300.
- . Advanced Materials Letters, 8(7), 807-812.
- . Nature Materials, 16, 730-736.
- . International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 108(B), 1439-1448.
- . Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 243, 16-22.
- . International Journal of Impact Engineering, 102, 1-15.
- . Materials Letters, 190, 138-142.
- . Applied Sciences, 7(1), 105-105.
- . Scientific Reports, 7.
- . Advanced Materials Letters, 8(4), 500-505.
- . Scripta Materialia, 124, 90-94.
- . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 681, 330-341.
- . Metal Powder Report.
- . Materials Letters, 171, 14-17.
- . Metals, 6(5), 97-97.
- . Acta Materialia, 108, 279-292.
- . Composites Part B: Engineering, 90, 76-85.
- . International Journal of Impact Engineering, 89, 49-61.
- . Composite Structures, 142, 254-262.
- . Materials & Design, 87, 295-302.
- . Composite Structures, 131, 66-71.
- . Materials Science and Technology, 31(10), 1201-1206.
- . Acta Materialia, 85, 387-395.
- . Materials & Design, 64, 136-141.
- . Measurement, 56, 37-49.
- . Advanced Engineering Materials, 16(2), 241-247.
- . Journal of Materials Research, 28(17), 2474-2482.
- . Scripta Materialia, 69(6), 469-472.
- . Physics Education, 48(4), 465-471.
- Metal Foam Regenerators; Heat Transfer and Storage in Porous Media. Journal of Materials Research, 28(17), 2474-2482.
- . Advanced Engineering Materials, 15(3), 123-128.
- . Scripta Materialia.
- Formation of microporous NiTi by transient liquid phase sintering of elemental powders. Materials Science and Engineering C.
- . Intermetallics, 22, 176-188.
- . Materials Letters, 70, 142-145.
- . Acta Materialia, 59(18), 6869-6879.
- . Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 357(3), 814-819.
- Effect of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation coating on the specific strength of open-cell aluminium foams. Materials and Design.
- . Physics Education, 46(1), 50-56.
- A study of mechanical homogeneity in as-cast bulk metallic glass by nanoindentation. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.
- The bonding of nickel foam to Ti-6Al-4V using Ti-Cu-Ni braze alloy. Materials Science and Engineering A.
Chapters
- , Physical Metallurgy: Fifth Edition (pp. 2399-2595).
- , Physical Metallurgy (pp. 2399-2595). Elsevier
- , Physical Metallurgy (pp. vii-vii). Elsevier
- , Advances in Powder Metallurgy (pp. xi-xiv). Elsevier
- , Advances in Powder Metallurgy (pp. 273-307). Elsevier
Conference proceedings papers
- . 2023 IEEE International Magnetic Conference - Short Papers (INTERMAG Short Papers), 15 May 2023 - 19 May 2023.
- . Acta Physica Polonica A, Vol. 128(4) (pp 557-561)
- . Acta Physica Polonica A, Vol. 128(4) (pp 552-557)
- Design and optimisation of powder processed metallic foams for different applications. Proceedings Euro PM 2015: International Power Metallurgy Congress and Exhibition
- . Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015), 25 May 2015 - 27 May 2015.
- (pp 1147-1155)
- . Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 45 (pp S339-S339)
- Aluminium Foams as Novel Regenerators for Stirling Engine. POROUS METALS AND METALLIC FOAMS, METFOAM 2011 (pp 589-594)
- Metal Foams with Graded Pore Size for Heat Transfer Applications. POROUS METALS AND METALLIC FOAMS, METFOAM 2011 (pp 367-373)
- Elastic Response of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coated Open Cell Aluminium Foams. POROUS METALS AND METALLIC FOAMS, METFOAM 2011 (pp 563-568)
- Porous metal implants for enhanced bone ingrowth and stability. European Cells and Materials, Vol. 22(SUPPL.3) (pp 1)
Preprints
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Structure and Properties of Materials Committee
- Editorial Board Member, PLOS ONE
- Editorial Board Member, Metals
Invited talks
- 鈥淎lloy Design鈥 鈥 invited speaker, Imperial College Seminar, London, UK, 13th June 2018
- 鈥淪hear banding of metallic glasses observed by dynamic electrical measurements鈥 鈥 invited speaker, CAMTEC IV, Cambridge, UK, 9th-10th April 2018
- 鈥淢icrolattice Materials鈥 鈥 invited speaker, Blast Effects Acting on Materials and Structures Seminar (BEAMSEM), 91直播, UK, 12th-13th May 2016
- 鈥3D Networking: Building Lattices in Additive Manufacturing鈥 鈥 invited speaker, Additive Manufactured Metallic Materials Properties & Structures (AM3PS), MTC Coventry, UK, 14th May 2015
- 鈥淕ood Porosity: Casting routes to metal foams and sponges鈥 鈥 invited speaker, UK solidification workshop, LiME, Brunel University, UK, 9th and 10th April 2014
Public engagement
Russell has a long standing interest in public engagement and has been a STEM ambassador since 2010. As well as being Chair of the IoM3 Education Committee from 2015-2018, and supporting the activities of the Schools Affiliate Scheme, he has developed and published several papers on practical demonstrations of materials issues using chocolate:
- J. Dean, K. Thomson, L. Hollands, J. Bates, M. Carter, C. Freeman, P. Kapranos and R. Goodall, 鈥, Physics Education, 48 (2013) 465-471
- L.B. Parsons & R. Goodall, 鈥溾 Physics Education, 46 (2011) 50-56
Russell also teaches a module on Public Engagement and Outreach to Doctoral Training Scheme students, supporting them to develop their own outreach ideas. Some of the notable outcomes of this module are the development of a 鈥溾 board, shown at the Cheltenham Science festival and since produced at a larger scale by the Advanced Metallic Systems CDT for distribution throughout the UK, and directed at younger children.