Professor Russell Goodall

MEng PhD FIMMM CEng

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

Professor of Metallurgy

Director, EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Advanced Metallic Systems

Russell Goodall
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r.goodall@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5977

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Professor Russell Goodall
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Profile

After an Undergraduate degree and PhD in the field of Materials Science and Engineering, I worked as a researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2008, I returned to the UK, and came to Sheffield for the first time, as a Lecturer, where I have remained ever since. Over that time, my research interests have developed from initially porous metals and lattice structures, and mechanical characterisation, to include more of the fundamental formation of alloys, and the characterisation of microstructure and phases.

In 2019, I received the Sir Colin Humphreys Education Award by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3). This award recognises Russell's contribution to enhancing students' scientific/technological literacy through the teaching or support of materials, minerals or mining topics within 11-19 learning, either in the secondary or further education sectors.

Research interests

At the most fundamental level, I am interested in how different elements come together and form alloys. I find this exciting because there are so many possible combinations of different elements in different amounts, that the chances of there being undiscovered alloys with better properties than the materials we know about are in many cases high. We know a lot about some specific alloy types, but my research aims to improve our ability to predict the useful alloys that could form from untried combinations, involving less common elements. Applications include fusion energy and advanced joining.

Key research interests:

  • Alloy Development
  • Multicomponent Alloys / High Entropy Alloys
  • Alloys for Fusion Energy
  • Brazing and Soldering
  • Mechanical Properties and Nanoindentation
Publications

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Goodall R & Mortensen A (2014) Porous Metals, Physical Metallurgy: Fifth Edition (pp. 2399-2595). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodall R & Mortensen A (2014) Porous Metals, Physical Metallurgy (pp. 2399-2595). Elsevier RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bhadeshia HKDH, Chen L-Q, Goodall R, Gu Y, Kirchheim R, Mortensen A, Nie J-F, Pundt A, Raabe D, Rae CMF , Reed RC et al (2014) List of Contributors to Volume III, Physical Metallurgy (pp. vii-vii). Elsevier RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chang I, Zhao Y, Dunkley J, Chen GZ, Suryanarayana C, Ivanov E, Chang I, Simchi A, Nojoomi A, Todd I , Sidambe AT et al (2013) Contributor contact details, Advances in Powder Metallurgy (pp. xi-xiv). Elsevier RIS download Bibtex download
  • Goodall R (2013) Porous metals: foams and sponges, Advances in Powder Metallurgy (pp. 273-307). Elsevier RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Davis-Fowell E, Morley N, Allwood D & Goodall R (2023) Optimisation of Ga-doped τ-MnAl for use as a permanent magnetic material. 2023 IEEE International Magnetic Conference - Short Papers (INTERMAG Short Papers), 15 May 2023 - 19 May 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cornide J, Calvo-Dahlborg M, Chambreland S, Asensio Dominguez L, Leong Z, Dahlborg U, Cunliffe A, Goodall R & Todd I (2015) Combined Atom Probe Tomography and TEM Investigations of CoCrFeNi, CoCrFeNi-Pdx(x=0.5, 1.0, 1.5) and CoCrFeNi-Sn. Acta Physica Polonica A, Vol. 128(4) (pp 557-561) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dahlborg U, Cornide J, Calvo-Dahlborg M, Hansen TC, Leong Z, Asensio Dominguez L, Chambreland S, Cunliffe A, Goodall R & Todd I (2015) Crystalline Structures of Some High Entropy Alloys Obtained by Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction. Acta Physica Polonica A, Vol. 128(4) (pp 552-557) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shbeh MM & Goodall R (2015) Design and optimisation of powder processed metallic foams for different applications. Proceedings Euro PM 2015: International Power Metallurgy Congress and Exhibition RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fraternali F, Amendola A, Hernández-Nava E, Goodall R, Skelton RE & Nesterenko VF (2015) PRESTRESS TUNING OF THE NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF TENSEGRITY METAMATERIALS. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015), 25 May 2015 - 27 May 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cornide J, Dahlborg U, Leong Z, Dominguez LA, Juraszek J, Jouen S, Hansen T, Wunderlich R, Chambreland S, Todd I , Goodall R et al (2015) Structure and Properties of Some CoCrFeNi-Based High Entropy Alloys (pp 1147-1155) RIS download Bibtex download
  • van Grunsven W, Goodall R & Reilly GC (2012) HIGHLY POROUS TITANIUM ALLOY: FABRICATION AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES. Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 45 (pp S339-S339) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barari F, Bangert K, Luna EE, Marshall R, Goodall R & Woolley R (2012) Aluminium Foams as Novel Regenerators for Stirling Engine. POROUS METALS AND METALLIC FOAMS, METFOAM 2011 (pp 589-594) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zaragoza G & Goodall R (2012) Metal Foams with Graded Pore Size for Heat Transfer Applications. POROUS METALS AND METALLIC FOAMS, METFOAM 2011 (pp 367-373) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Abdulla T, Yerokhin A & Goodall R (2012) Elastic Response of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coated Open Cell Aluminium Foams. POROUS METALS AND METALLIC FOAMS, METFOAM 2011 (pp 563-568) RIS download Bibtex download
  • van Grunsven W, Goodall R & Reilly GC (2011) Porous metal implants for enhanced bone ingrowth and stability. European Cells and Materials, Vol. 22(SUPPL.3) (pp 1) RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

Teaching activities

I teach materials modules in a number of different courses, including:

  • Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering (General Engineering)
  • Kinetics, Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams (Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Materials Outreach (Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Leadership and Research Skills (Fusion Power CDT)

I also supervise final year undergraduate and Masters projects across several engineering programmes.

Professional activities and memberships
  • Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and a Chartered Engineer.
  • Editorial Board member for the Journal of Alloys and Compounds (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-alloys-and-compounds)
  • Member of BSI committee WEE/19 "Brazing and braze welding" and Technical Committee ISO/TC 44/SC 13