School of Materials Science & Engineering

Deputy Director (Ed&T), ARC Centre of Excellence (Design in Light Metals)
BE (UoW), PhD (UNSW), CPEng, FIEAust, CEng, FIMMM
School of Materials Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
NSW 2052 Australia

Tel +61 2 9385 4453
Fax +61 2 9385 5956

Email m.ferry@unsw.edu.au

Education

BE - University of Wollongong (1989)
PhD - University of New South Wales (1994)

Recent Appointments

Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW (2008 - present)
Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals, (2005 - present)
Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW (2004 - 2007)
Senior Lecturer, School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW (2000-2003)
Lecturer, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Wollongong (1996-1999)
Research Fellow, Light Alloy Processing Group, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK (1994-1996)
Materials Engineer, Alcan Australia Limited (1989-1994)

Research Interests

My research interests are concerned mainly with the mechanisms of microstructure and texture evolution during solidification, solid-state phase transformation and deformation & annealing with particular emphasis on the light metals and their composites. Current researches include:

Development of new classes of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs)
Processing and properties of BMGs and their composites
Thermoplastic macro- and micro-forming of BMGs
Production and properties of biocompatible BMG components
Recovery/recrystallization mechanisms in deformed single-phase and two-phase alloys
Design of multilayered hybrid sheet structures for optimising mechanical properties
Development of microstructure and texture in materials by thin-strip casting

Research Funding

Over the past ten years, extensive research funding has been received from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and other sources. Funding has been received for thermomechanical processing equipment together with a wide range of SEM/TEM/XRD/EBSD facilities for the advanced microstructural and crystallographic analysis of materials.

Some Recent Individual ARC Grants (exc. CoE Projects)

ARC Discovery - 3D-EBSD of materials (2009-2011)
ARC Discovery - 3D-EBSD of materials (2005-2007)
ARC Discovery - Thermal stability of submicron alloys (2003-2005)
ARC Discovery - Texture enhancement in as-cast metallic strip (2002-2004)
ARC Linkage (International) - High resolution EBSD of fine grained alloys (2004-2005)
ARC Linkage - Silicon on sapphire using solid-phase epitaxial techniques (2003-2005)
ARC Linkage - Optimisation of formability in strip-cast low carbon steel (2002-2004)

Teaching Areas

Thermodynamics of materials
Crystallography & x-ray diffraction
Physical properties of materials
Thermomechanical processing
Micromechanisms of deformation
Phase transformations

Memberships

Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK (FIMMM)
Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust)
Member, Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, USA (TMS)
Member, Institute of Materials Engineering, Australia
Chartered Professional Engineer (Australia) (CPEng)
Chartered Engineer (UK) (CEng)

Recent Visiting Appointments

Visiting Professor, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France (2009-10).
Visiting Professor, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France (2008-09)
Visiting Professor, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK (2004)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK (2002)

Current & Recent Researchers

Key Researchers & Visiting Academics

Dr Kevin Laws (2007 - present) - Processing and properties of light alloy BMGs
Dr Philip Boughton (2009 - present) - Biocompatible BMGs and their applications
Dr Martin Xu (Postdoctoral Fellow) (2005 - present) – 3D-EBSD and thermoplastic forming of BMGs
Dr Md. Zakaria Quadir (2006 - present) - Particle-assisted microstructural control in aluminium
A/Prof. Lori Bassman (Visiting Senior Research Fellow) (2006 - present) - Light alloys research
Dr Wing Yeung (Visiting Senior Research Fellow) (2005) - Equal channel angular pressing of metals
Dr Matthew Jones (Postdoctoral Fellow) (2003-2004) - Development of nanocrystalline structural alloys
Dr Gang Chen (Visiting Research Fellow) (2003-2004) - Crystallization behaviour of bulk metallic glasses

Research Students

Karl Shamlaye (PhD) - Processing and properties of BMG composite sheets
John Scicluna (PhD, UNSW/INPG) - Ductile BMGs and their composites (jointly supervised by Prof. Yavari, INPG)
Yi Cao (PhD) - Direct casting of BMG sheets and further processing strategies
Fitri Wahid (PhD) - Production and properties of Al-based BMGs
Olga Beletska (PhD) - BMGs for ballistic armour applications
Lalu Robin (PhD) - Deformation of Mg-base BMG composites
Yang Cao (PhD) - Processing and properties of biocompatible metallic glasses
Khalid Hamady (MBiomedE) - Development of biocompatible BMGs
Afrin Nassima (PhD) - 3D-EBSD on crystalline and semi-crystalline materials
Kai Dick Lau (MSc) - Accumulative roll bonding of Al alloys
Gregory Guo (PhD) - Processing and properties of multifunctional Ti-Nb-O alloys

Some Recent Research Students

Oday Al-Buhamad (PhD) - Microstructure and properties of multilayered Al alloys
Bulent Gun (PhD) - Deformation and crystallization behaviour of amorphous Mg alloys
Nora Mateescu (PhD) - 3D tomography of recrystallizing grains in metals
Kevin Laws (PhD) - Low pressure die casting and properties of Mg- and Ca-base BMGs
Aravinda Bommareddy (MSc) - Dynamic grain stability in SMG Al-Sc alloys
Hamid Mohseni (MSc) - Microstructure and properties of Al-base nanocomposites
Martin Xu (PhD) - Optimisation of microstructure and texture in strip cast steels

Publications

About 160 journal and conference papers, book chapters and books.

Some Recent Publications

1. M. Ferry, Direct Strip Casting of Metals and Alloys, Published by Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK & CRC Press LLC, New York, USA (2006), (275pp) ISBN 1 84569 049 4

2. M. Ferry, Chapter 6 of 10 - "Discontinuously reinforced metal matrix composites" in Deformation and Processing of Structural Materials Ed. X. Guo, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK & CRC Press LLC, New York, USA. pp. 203-251 (2005)

3. Quadir, M.Z., Ferry, M., Al-Buhamad, O. and Bassman, L. (2009). Randomization of recrystallization textures in Al layers by intense shearing in a layered ARB sheet of Al and Al(0.3%Sc). Acta Materialia, 57, pp. 29-40.

4. Laws, K.J., Gun. B. and Ferry, M. (2009). Influence of casting parameters on the critical casting size of bulk metallic glass. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 40A, pp. 2377-2387.

5. Laws, K.J., Shamlaye, K., Gun, B. and Ferry, M. (2009). Synthesis of copper-based bulk metallic glasses in the ternary Cu-Mg-Ca system. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 486, pp. L27-L29.

6. Burgess, T, Ferry, M. and Laws, K.J. (2008). Effect of loading rate on the serrated flow of a bulk metallic glass during nanoindentation. Acta Materialia, 56, pp. 4829-4835.

7. Laws, K.J., Gun. B. and Ferry, M. (2008). Large-scale production of Ca-base bulk metallic glass samples by low pressure die casting. Materials Science & Engineering A, 475, pp. 348-354.

8. Xu, W., Ferry, M., Cairney, J.M. and Humphreys, F.J. (2007). Three dimensional investigation of particle stimulated nucleation in a nickel alloy. Acta Materialia, 55, pp. 5157-5167.

9. Quadir, M.Z., Al-Buhamad, O., Bassman, L. and Ferry, M. (2007). Development of recovered/recrystallized microstructure in Al alloys by accumulative roll bonding. Acta Materialia, 55, pp. 5438-5448.

10. Gun. B., Laws, K.J. and Ferry, M. (2007). Elevated temperature flow behaviour in an Mg-base bulk metallic glass. Materials Science & Engineering A, 471, pp. 130-134.

11. M. Ferry and N. Burhan, Structural and kinetic aspects of grain coarsening in submicron Al alloys, Acta Materialia, vol. 55 (2007)

12. M. Ferry, Influence of fine particles on grain coarsening within an orientation gradient, Acta Materialia, vol. 53, pp. 773-873 (2005)

13. M. Ferry, N.E. Hamilton and F.J. Humphreys, Continuous and discontinuous grain coarsening in a fine grained particle-containing Al-Sc alloy, Acta Materialia, vol. 53, pp. 1097-1109 (2005)

14. N. Stanford, D.P. Dunne and M. Ferry, Deformation and annealing of {110}<011> aluminium single crystals, Acta Materialia, vol. 51, 665 (2003)

15. A. Hunter and M. Ferry, Texture enhancement by inoculation during direct casting of stainless steel strip, Metallurgical & Materials Transactions A, vol. 33A, 1499 (2002)

16. Y. Huang, F.J. Humphreys and M. Ferry, The annealing behaviour of deformed cube-oriented aluminium single crystals, Acta Materialia, vol. 48, 2543 (2000)

17. M. Ferry and F.J. Humphreys, Deformation and recrystallization of particle-containing {110}<001> single crystals, Acta Materialia, vol. 44, 3089 (1996)

18. M. Ferry and F.J. Humphreys, Discontinuous subgrain growth in aluminium single crystals, Acta Materialia, vol. 44, 1289 (1996)

19. F.J. Humphreys and M. Ferry, On the role of twinning in the recrystallization of aluminium, Scripta Materialia, vol. 35, 99 (1996)

20. P. Manohar, M. Ferry and T. Chandra, Review - Five decades of the Zener equation, ISIJ International, vol. 38, 913 (1998)