Professor Hua-Xin Peng

Summary

My research interests lie in the engineering of composite/multiphase materials by tailoring their structures at the nano-, micro- and meso-scales to meet specific engineering applications. This includes the exploration of the latest advances in nanotechnology which opens a new horizon in the application of materials such as polymeric nanocomposite coatings for carbon fibre composite components.  Research into novel composites and microstructures involves (i) development of ferromagnetic microwire (meta-)composites for a range of innovative engineering applications such as structural health monitoring; (ii) hierachical approach to composites microstructures; and (iii) novel applications of actuating shape memory materials.

Biography

Prof. Peng joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Bristol University as a Lecturer in Aerospace Materials in October 2002 from the Materials Department at the University of Oxford, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006, Reader in 2009 and Professor in 2012. He is a core member of the Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS) and currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Bristol Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI).

Prof. Peng obtained his BEng (1990) in Physical Metallurgy from Zhejiang University ('985' Group University and member of WUN) followed by his MSc (1993) and PhD (1996) in Composite Materials from Harbin Institute of Technology ('985' Group University), P. R. China. He had spent three years time as a postdoctoral researcher at Brunel University looking into novel composite microstructures, he employed a polymeric processing approach to the fabrication of ceramic preforms for the production of metal matrix composites based on microstructural modelling. Then he worked as a Research Fellow in the Materials Department at Oxford University on the processing and design of Ti matrix composite components for aerospace applications in connection with Rolls Royce plc.

Keywords

• aerospace materials
• microstructural design
• nanocrystallined magnetic materials
• nanocomposites coatings
• metal-ceramic composites

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Other sites

• Aerospace

Research Groups

• Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS) - Core

Recent publications

• Qin, F & Peng, H 2013, ‘Ferromagnetic Microwires Enabled Multifunctional Composite Materials’. Progress in Materials Science, vol 58., pp. 183
• , Peng, H & 2013, ‘Mechanical and magnetocaloric properties of Gd-based amorphous microwires fabricated by melt-extraction’. Acta Materialia.
• Qin, F, Peng, H, M.H., P, L., P, M., I & A., Z 2012, ‘Effects of wire properties on the field-tunable behaviour of continuous-microwire composites’. Sensors and Actuators, vol 178., pp. 118 - 125
• Huang, L, Geng, L, Peng, H & Kaveendran, B 2012, ‘High temperature tensile properties of in situ TiBw/Ti6Al4V composites with a novel network reinforcement architecture’. Materials Science and Engineering: A, vol 534., pp. 688 - 692
• Cui, X, Fan, G, Geng, L, Huang, L, Wang, Y & Peng, H 2012, ‘Growth kinetics of TiAl3 layer in multi-laminated Ti–(TiB2/Al) composite sheets during annealing treatment’. Materials Science and Engineering A, vol 539., pp. 337 - 343
• Wang, H, , Peng, H & Sun, J 2012, ‘Relating residual stress and microstructure to mechanical and GMI properties in cold-drawn Co-based amorphous microwires’. Acta Materialia.
• Qin, F, Brosseau, C, Peng, H, Wang, J, Sun, H & 2012, ‘In situ microwave characterization of microwire composites with external magnetic field’. Applied Physics Letters, vol 100., pp. 192903-1 - 192903-4
• Zhao, Y, Wang, Y, Peng, H & Zhou, Y 2012, ‘Dense sub-micron-sized ZrC–W composite produced by reactive melt infiltration Int’. Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, vol 30., pp. 196 - 199
• Qin, F, Peng, H, Fuller, JD & Brosseau, C 2012, ‘Magnetic field-dependent effective microwave properties of microwire-epoxy composites’. Applied Physics Letters, vol 101., pp. 152905-1
• Wang, H, Xing, D, Peng, H, Qin, F, Cao, F, Wang, J, G. & Sun 2012, ‘Nanocrystallization enabled tensile ductility of Co-based amorphous microwires’. Scripta Materialia, vol 66., pp. 1041 - 1044

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Professor Peng currently teaches 5 courses: