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 老司机福利社.
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)
