David Dye

David Dye is a Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials at Imperial College, London, UK. He mostly works on the fatigue mechanisms, micromechanics and design of titanium and nickel/cobalt superalloys, with additional interests in twinning induced plasticity steels, zirconium and in superelastic NiTi-based alloys.

Primarily, he collaborates with Rolls-Royce and across the aerospace and nuclear sectors. Prior to moving to Imperial in 2003, he worked at the neutron spectroscopy facility in Chalk River, Canada. His undergraduate degree and PhD were from Cambridge University, on the weldability of nickel-base superalloys. He has received a number of awards for his work and has published over 100 journal articles. He was an EPSRC Leadership Fellow, 2010-15 and is presently a Royal Society Industry Fellow.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• Worsnop FF, Lim RE, Bernier JV, et al., 2022, The influence of alloying on slip intermittency and the implications for dwell fatigue in titanium, Nature Communications, Vol:13, ISSN:2041-1723
• Vorontsov VA, McAuliffe TP, Hardy MC, et al., 2022, Precipitate dissolution during deformation induced twin thickening in a CoNi-base superalloy subject to creep, Acta Materialia, Vol:232, ISSN:1359-6454, Pages:1-11
• Joseph S, Kontis P, Chang Y, et al., 2022, A cracking oxygen story: a new view of stress corrosion cracking in titanium alloys, Acta Materialia, Vol:227, ISSN:1359-6454, Pages:117687-117687
• Shi Y, Joseph S, Saunders EA, et al., 2021, AgCl-induced hot salt stress corrosion cracking in a titanium alloy, Corrosion Science, Vol:187, ISSN:0010-938X, Pages:1-11
• Cann JL, De Luca A, Dunand DC, et al., 2021, Sustainability through alloy design: Challenges and opportunities, Progress in Materials Science, Vol:117, ISSN:0079-6425
• Coakley J, Higginbotham A, McGonegle D, et al., 2020, Femtosecond quantification of void evolution during rapid material failure, Science Advances, Vol:6, ISSN:2375-2548, Pages:1-10
• Xu Y, Joseph S, Karamched P, et al., 2020, Predicting dwell fatigue life in titanium alloys using modelling and experiment, Nature Communications, Vol:11, ISSN:2041-1723
• Joseph S, Joseph K, Lindley TC, et al., 2020, The role of dwell hold on the dislocation mechanisms of fatigue in a near alpha titanium alloy, International Journal of Plasticity, Vol:131, ISSN:0749-6419
• Chang Y, Lu W, Guenole J, et al., 2019, Ti and its alloys as examples of cryogenic focused ion beam milling of environmentally-sensitive materials, Nature Communications, Vol:10, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-10