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Andrzej Calka

Academic Title: Senior Lecturer

Administrative Title: Head of Research Group

Name: Andrzej Calka

 

Department: Department of Materials Engineering

Department Website: http://www.uow.edu.au/eng/staff/mmmstaff.html

Institution: University of Wollongong

 

Address: Wollongong
Australia

 

Highest Degree: PhD

Date of Degree: 1978

Degree Institution: Warsaw University of Technology

 

E-mail: Contact by e-mail?

 

Expertise: MATERIALS CHARACTERISATION (Metals, Ceramics and Powder Products)

X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Diffractometric structure studies
• Phase analyses
• Structure determination

THERMAL ANALYSIS
• Analysis of thermal effects in materials
• Thermal behaviour during heating and cooling: phase transformation temperature determination, specific heats, enthalpies of chemical reactions and phase changes determination, activation parameters
• Thermal conductivity
• Thermal emissivity
• Boiling points, enthalpies of vaporisation and sublimation

MICROSCOPY and METALLOGRAPHY of MATERIALS
• Advanced optical microscopy of metals and ceramics
• Scanning and transmission electron microscopy, Energy dispersion spectroscopy
• Surface Microscopy using Atomic Force and Magnetic Force Microscopy (non-polymeric materials)

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
• Alloy identification
• Quantitative, including C, O, N & H

PARTICLE ANALYSIS
• Characterisation of particles: particle size, size distribution, average diameter, particle shape, clustering
• Composition and structure

MATERIALS SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING

METAL CASTING, SOLIDIFICATION and HEAT TREATMENT
• Solidification related problems, Solidification shrinkage problems
• Injection molding
• Heat transport
• Microstructural design by solidification processing
• Vacuum and controlled atmosphere heat treatment
• Arc melting, induction melting (small samples)

MACHANICAL GRINDING AND BALL MILLING
• Mechanical grinding and ball milling problems
• Evaluation of milling processes

TECHNICAL CERAMICS
•Advanced and high-temperature ceramics
 • Fracture toughness and strength
 • Engineering ceramics
 • Nitride and carbide ceramics
 • Ceramic composites

NANOSTRUCTURAL MATERIALS
•Synthesis, characterisation and properties

ELECTRIC DISCHARGE ASSISTED MECHANICAL MILLING
AND PLASMA PROCESSING
• Plasma assisted reduction
• Plasma synthesis of metal hydrides
• Plasma synthesis of hardmetals
• Synthesis of nanostructural materials

 

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