Contact Dr Simon Gray

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 Â鶹´«Ã½AV.

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