Dr Russell Goodall
MEng PhD MIMMM CEng
Senior Lecturer in Metallurgy
Address:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD
Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 5977
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 5943
Email: r.goodall@sheffield.ac.uk
Russell Goodall 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.
Research interests
His main research interests are in the processing, mechanical and thermal properties and applications of open-celled porous metals. In particular, this involves 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 (235 W m-1 K-1), 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 electrodes or as surgical implants, amongst many others. As well as foams (with pores or cells in random locations), he is also interested in porous structures with varying degrees of order, such as 3D lattice structures.
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.
Key projects
- Accelerated Metallurgy, FP7 European Project
- Investigation of Metal foam Bonding for Aerospace Applications, Project with Rolls-Royce plc
- • Development of Graded Porous Implants for enhanced Ingrowth and Stability, Furlong Charitable Research Foundation funded project, Joint with Dr Gwen Reilly of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Metal Foams as Novel Regenerators for Stirling Engines, Royal Society funded research, Joint with Dr Robert Woolley of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professional activities and recognition
- Invited to record an online lecture for the European Space Agency on the mechanical properties of metals, see http://streamiss.spaceflight.esa.int/?pg=production&dm=1&PID=impresslect.
- Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Education Committee, and Associate Member of the Institute.
- Chair of the Departmental Outreach and Schools Committee.
- Administrator for the Hatfield Lecture.
- First Year Director for Materials Science & Engineering
Key publications
- J Jarvis, W Voice, R Goodall, “The Bonding of Nickel Foam to Ti-6Al-4V using Ti-Cu-Ni Braze Alloy”, Materials Science and Engineering A, in press.
- J D Plummer, R Goodall, I A Figueroa & I Todd, “A study of mechanical homogeneity in as-cast bulk metallic glass by Nanoindentation”, J. Non-Crystalline Solids, in press.
- F Diologent, R Goodall, A Mortensen, “Creep Behaviour of Aluminium-Magnesium Open Cell Foam”, Acta Materialia, 57 (2009) 830-837.
- F. Diologent, R. Goodall and A. Mortensen, "Surface oxide in replicated microcellular aluminium and its influence on the plasticity size effect", Acta Materialia, 57(1) (2009) 286-294.
- E Amsterdam, R Goodall, A Mortensen, P R Onck, J Th M De Hosson, “Fracture Behaviour of Low Density Replicated Aluminium Alloy Foams” Mat. Sci. Eng. A, 496 (2008) 376–382.
Research group
Mr Gael Zaragoza is carrying out PhD research on the heat transfer behaviour of aluminium foams processed by replication.
Mr Mark Taylor is looking at the processing of high melting point metal foams (metals with a melting point in excess of 1000 degrees C) for his PhD research.
Mr Taha Abdullah is working on an integrated PhD program, with research looking at the properties of metal foams with surface treatments such as Plasma Electrolytic Oxide (PEO) coatings. This work involves collaboration with Dr Aleksey Yerokhin of the Surface Engineering Group.
Mr Everth Hernandez is researching the mechanical behaviour of open lattice structures made from titanium, using additive layer manufacturing, for his PhD, jointly supervised by Dr Iain Todd.
Mr William Van Grunsven is working on a PhD project funded by the Furlong Charitable Research Foundation and jointly supervised by Dr Gwen Reilly, looking at the development of graded porous structures for hard tissue implants.
Mr Lukas Jiranek is a KTP associate, working on Metal Injection Moulding with William Beckett Plastics Ltd.