Dr Richard Thackray
PhD BEng ARSM DIC
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Senior Lecturer in Metallurgy and Metals Production
School External Partnership Lead
Advanced Metallic Systems CDT Course Director
+44 114 222 5963
Full contact details
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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RI hold a degree in materials science and a PhD in metallurgy from Imperial College London. I am a key member of the team for SUSTAIN, the EPSRC funded future steel manufacturing research hub. My current research interests are related to the production of steel, including development of mould powders for continuous casting, inclusion engineering in steels and using novel powder metallurgical techniques for the production of stainless steel components. I am also involved in several projects that look at aspects of sustainability in steelmaking, in particular initiatives to quantify and reduce energy consumption in steelmaking, reuse and recycling of waste material, life cycle assessment of critical elements in steel and alternative materials for iron making. I am a past chair of the IOM3 Iron and Steel group and won the IOM3 gold medal in 2021 for significant contribution within the metals sector.
- Research interests
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My current research interests are related to the production of steel, including development of mould powders for continuous casting of steel, inclusion engineering in steels and using novel powder metallurgical techniques for the production of stainless steel components.
I am also involved in several projects that look at aspects of sustainability in steelmaking, in particular, initiatives to quantify and reduce energy consumption in steelmaking, reuse/recycling of by-products and waste material, life-cycle assessment of ferroalloys and critical elements in steel, and alternative materials for ironmaking.Key research interests:
- Metallurgy
- Metals Production
- Circular Economy
- Recycling
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Effect of CaO/Al2O3 ratio on physical properties of lime-alumina-based mould powders. Metals, 13(4).
- Novel etching technique for delineation of prior-austenite grain boundaries in low, medium and high carbon steels. Materials, 13(15). View this article in WRRO
- Quantitative Characterization of Inclusions in Continuously Cast High-Carbon Steel. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 46(6), 2490-2502. View this article in WRRO
- Tensile Behaviour of Galvanised Grade 8.8 Bolt Assemblies in Fire. Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, 6(3), 197-212. View this article in WRRO
- Effect of early stages of thermomechanical processing on inclusions in high carbon steel. Materials Science and Technology (United Kingdom), 30(10), 1177-1188. View this article in WRRO
- Microstructure and rheological properties of titanium carbide-coated carbon black particles synthesised from molten salt. Journal of Materials Science, 1-7.
- Sustainable plate manufacturing. Iron and Steel Technology, 9(8), 134-141.
- Rating inclusions in an as-cast carbon steel. AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings, 841-848.
- Classification and rating of inclusions in a high carbon steel. TMS Annual Meeting, 25-36.
- Performance and properties of mould fluxes. IRONMAKING & STEELMAKING, 32(1), 26-34.
- A review of slag splashing. ISIJ INT, 45(5), 619-633.
- Phase transformation reactions in rapidly solidified Al-6.5Fe-1.5V alloys. J MATER SCI, 36(13), 3197-3206.
- Microstructures and their stability in rapidly solidified Al-Fe-(V, Si) alloy powders. J MATER SCI, 36(8), 1845-1856.
- Determining a Flow Stress Model for High Temperature Deformation of Ti-6Al-4V. Materials Science Forum, 828-829, 441-446. View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- Investigation on viscosity of CaO-Al2O3 based mould fluxes
for the continuous casting of high-Al steels. Materials Proceedings, Vol. 3(1). Online, 22 March 2021 - 7 March 2021. View this article in WRRO
- Microstructure and properties of Al
2 O3 -C castables using carbide coated carbon. 14th Biennial Worldwide Congress on Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories, UNITECR 2015, in conjunction with the 58th International Colloquium on Refractories
- Microstructure and properties of Al
2 O3 -C castables using carbide coated carbon. 14th Biennial Worldwide Congress on Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories, UNITECR 2015, in conjunction with the 58th International Colloquium on Refractories
- Simulated and experimental study of segregation in continuously-cast high carbon bloom steel. AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings (pp 1221-1227)
- Sustainable plate manufacturing. AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings (pp 289-296)
- Alloys for critical applications. Ironmaking & Steelmaking, Vol. 37(4) (pp 242-250)
- Producing Ruthenium and Palladium Doped Stainless Steel by Field Assisted Sintering. Euro PM2023 Proceedings
- Effect of CaO/Al2O3 ratio on physical properties of lime-alumina-based mould powders. Metals, 13(4).
- Teaching activities
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MAT2310 Industrial Materials Processing
MEC207 Materials Processing
MAT4443 Metallurgical Processing
MAT4449 Metals Industrial Training Programme
MAT6665 Materials Processing and Characterisation
MAT61020 Sustainable Materials Manufacturing
AER208 Aerospace Materials
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
- Member of IOM3 Iron and Steel Group and IOM3 Sustainable Development Group
- Member of Association for Iron and Steel Technology