Dr Richard Thackray
PhD BEng ARSM DIC
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Senior Lecturer in Metallurgy and Metals Production
+44 114 222 5963
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School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
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- Profile
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Richard Thackray was appointed to academic staff in 2003 as Corus (now Tata Steel) Lecturer in Steelmaking.
He obtained his BEng and PhD in Metallurgy at Imperial College London and held research appointments in academia, before moving to º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½.
Richard is a recognised authority on steelmaking and continuous casting.
- Research interests
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Sustainable steelmaking
Research is focussed on identifying strategies to produce more energy-efficient steelmaking processes and to improve material efficiency. We work with industrial partners such as Siemens to investigate sustainable plate manufacture, and with Tata Steel to conduct research in areas as diverse as alternative materials for ironmaking, dephosphorisation mechanisms in oxygen steelmaking, the effect of reduced niobium content on microstructure of pipeline grades, life cycle analysis and substance flow analysis of critical elements used in steelmaking, use of alternative waste streams in primary steel production, and improved reuse and recycling of by-products.
Secondary steelmaking and continuous casting
Research is centred on understanding the effect of thermomechanical processing on inclusion formation and behaviour as well as developing new methodologies for characterising inclusions. Casting research focuses on understanding the role of mould powders on both the internal and surface quality of cast products, particularly casting of next generation (TRIP, DP) steels.
Other
Other areas of active research include modelling and design of castings for the nuclear supply chain, modelling of the behaviour of steel in fire, and the development of new modelling methodologies for predicting microstructure and segregation in continuously cast steels.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Metals, 13(4).
- . Materials, 13(15).
- . Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 46(6), 2490-2502.
- . Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, 6(3), 197-212.
- . Materials Science and Technology (United Kingdom), 30(10), 1177-1188.
- . 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.
- . 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.
- . Materials Science Forum, 828-829, 441-446.
Conference proceedings papers
- . Materials Proceedings, Vol. 3(1). Online, 22 March 2021 - 7 March 2021.
- 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)
- . Ironmaking & Steelmaking, Vol. 37(4) (pp 242-250)
- . Euro PM2023 Proceedings
- . Metals, 13(4).
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Past Chair of the Iron and Steel Society, a division of IOM3
- Member of the Sustainable Development Group of IOM3
- Member of the Casting and Solidification Group of IOM3
- Member of the Association of Iron and Steel Technologists
- Member of worldsteel Education and Training Committee
- Editorial Board of Ironmaking and Steelmaking
- Past President of the º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Metallurgical and Engineering Association