Contact Dr Simon Gray
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754150
- Email: s.gray@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Hydrogen
- Aerospace Materials
- Power Systems & Turbines
- Surface Engineering
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- Through-life Engineering Services
Current activities
Simon Gray, Principal Fellow, is responsible for running the Materials Perfomance in Extreme Environments facility in the Surface Engineering and Precision Centre at ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥.
Current activities include:
High-temperature corrosion fatigue (both high cycle and low cycle) looking at performance and development of alloys and coating systems for the gas turbine industry. A major output is to provide data and develop lifing models for critical components. New hydrogen testing capaility.
Materials performance in hydrogen - tensile, fatigue, c-ring, permeation
Accelerated oxidation of alloys and coating systems to rapidly rank materials for use in gas turbines. A cheaper and more selective equivalent to a burner rig.
Machine Learning for NDE evaluation of corrosion damage
Stress corrosion cracking at elevate temperatures
Sustainable manufacturing
High-temperature corrosion of alloys and coatings
Assessing cyclic oxidation performance of new alloys
Oxidation and phase studies of intermetallics
Clients
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
- Siemens Energy AG
- MTU Aero Engines AG
- ITP Aero (Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC)
- NASA
- Cannon-Muskegon
- UK Atomic Energy Authority
- Solar Turbines (A Caterpillar Company)
