Dr Hannah Zhang is a Senior Scientist in Advanced Engineering Materials Group at NPL. She joined NPL in 2015 after 3 years research associate work at the University of Cambridge within the Earth/Nuclear Materials Group.
Her background is Material Science, with an MPhil in EB-PVD SiC film deposition and testing, at Centre of Composite Materials and Structure, Harbin institute of Technology. She received her PhD from the University of Manchester, on the topic of FB-CVD coating and characterisation of TRISO fuel particle. She was awarded the Sir Richard Brook prize for the best ceramic PhD in the UK in 2013.
She is a member of ISE/101/5 (Indentation hardness testing) with ISO/TC164/SC3 (Hardness testing), and RPI/13 (Advanced technical ceramics) with ISO/TC206/WG4&7 (Fine ceramics, Composites & Monolithic ceramics/physical, mechanical and thermal properties). She is a member and CSci of IoM3. She has published and contributed to more than 30 journal papers and reports.
Areas of interest
- Instrumented indentation related testing, modelling, and calibration, including effects of temperature (cryogenic to high temperature), strain rates, and repetitive loading.
- Ceramic materials mechanical testing (standard and be-spoke, up to high temperature) and microstructural characterisation.
- Thin films elasticity and defects investigation, i.e. with laser enhanced surface acoustic wave (LAwave) and Pulse-echo.
- Nuclear materials, focus on mechanical properties testing.
Hannah is also interested in exploring and applying nanoindentation techniques to new areas, such as soft materials (<100 KPa) and battery materials.
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