Dr Dirk Engelberg

Dr. Dirk Lars Engelberg is Lecturer at the Corrosion and Protection Centre and the Research Centre for Radwaste Disposal (RCRD).

Dr. Engelberg graduated in 2000 from the University of Aalen, Germany, with a Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) degree in Surface Engineering and Materials Science. He then joined the Corrosion and Protection Centre, UMIST, and obtained his M.Sc. in Corrosion Science and Engineering in 2001. Dr. Engelberg completed his Ph.D. on "Grain Boundary Engineering for Intergranular Stress Corrosion Resistance in Austenitic Stainless Steel" at the University of Manchester, under the supervision of Dr James Marrow and Prof Roger Newman. In 2005, Dr. Engelberg joined the Materials Performance Centre (MPC) as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, and was appointed Lecturer in Geological Disposal / Materials Performance at the Corrosion and Protection Centre in March 2010.

Dr. Engelberg's research has mainly been concerned with the influence of microstructure on localized corrosion and stress corrosion cracking of stainless steels and nickel-based alloys. He also developed a keen interest in the characterisation of novel process routes for microstructure design and engineering. Working at the forefront of in-situ characterisation techniques, Dr. Engelberg is also very interested to advance the application of 3-dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) and Digital Image Correlation (DIC) for the in-situ characterisation of material degradation.

• Metallurgy of Steels, Stainless Steel and Nickel-base Alloy
• Microstructure Design and Engineering
• Surface Treatments and Shot Peening
• Localised Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking
• Sensitisation, Sensitisation Testing and Intergranular Corrosion
• 3-D Characterisation and "In-situ" Observations of Material Degradation
• Engineered Barrier Systems for Nuclear Waste Disposal
• Corrosion in Cements and Clays

• Journal of Microscopy (2009), Rahimi, S.; Engelberg, D.L.; Duff, J.A.; Marrow, T.J.: In-situ Observation of Intergranular Crack Nucleation in a Grain Boundary Controlled Austenitic Stainless Steel. Vol. 233, No. 3, p.423-431. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03133.
• Science (2008), King, A.; Johnson, G.; Engelberg, D., Marrow, T.J., Ludwig, W.: Observation of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking in a Grain-mapped Polycrystal. Vol. 321, p.382-385. DOI 10.1126/science.1156211
• Materials Science and Technology (2006), Babout, L.; Marrow, T.J.; Engelberg, D.; Withers, P.: X-ray Microtomographic Observation of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking in Sensitised Austenitic Stainless Steel. Vol. 22, No. 9, p.1068-1075. DOI 10.1179/174328406X114090.
• Energy Materials (2006) Marrow, J.; Engelberg, D.; Jivkov, A.; Wood, P.; Babout, L.; Stevens, N.: Grain Boundary Control for Improved Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking Resistance in Austenitic Stainless Steels: New Approach. Vol. 1, No. 2, p.98-102. DOI 10.1179/174892406X142723
• Journal of Nuclear Materials (2006), Marrow, T.J.; Babout, L.; Jivkov, A.; Wood, P.; Engelberg, D.; Stevens, N.; Withers, P.J.; Newman, R.C.: Three Dimensional Observations and Modelling of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking in Austenitic Stainless Steel. Vol. 352, p.62-74. DOI 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2006.02.042
• Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials (2006), Marrow, T.J; Steuwer, A.; Mohammed, F., Engelberg, D.; Sarwar, M.: Measurement of Crack Bridging Stresses in Environment-assisted Cracking of Duplex Stainless Steel by Synchrotron Diffraction. Vol. 29, p.464-471. DOI 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2006.01019
• International Journal of Fatigue (2004), Marrow, T.J; Buffiere, J.-Y., Withers, P.J.; Johnson, G.; Engelberg, D.: High Resolution X-ray Tomography of Short Fatigue Crack Nucleation in Austempered Ductile Cast Iron. Vol. 26, No. 7, p.717-725. DOI 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2003.11.001
• Materials Science Forum (2010), Engelberg, D.L.; Rahimi, S.; Marrow, T.J.: Towards Understanding the Development of Grain Boundary Clusters in Austenitic Stainless Steel. Vols.638-642, p.3206-3211. DOI 10.4028/scientific.net/MSF.638-642.3206.
• Materials Science and Technology (2010), Rahimi, S.; Engelberg, D.L.; Marrow, T.J.: Characterisation of Grain Boundary Cluster Compactness in an Austenitic Stainless Steel. Vol.26, No. 6. DOI: 10.1179/026708309X12506933873783
• Journal of Microscopy (2009), Jones, R.; Randle, V.; Engelberg, D.; Marrow, T.J.: Five-Parameter Grain Boundary Analysis of a Grain Boundary Engineered Austenitic Stainless Steel. Vol. 233, No. 3, p.419-422. DOI 0.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03129.
• Scripta Materialia (2008), Engelberg, D.L.; Newman, R.C.; Marrow, T.J.: Effect of Thermo-mechanical Process History on Grain Boundary Control in an Austenitic Stainless Steel. Vol. 59, p.554-557. DOI 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2008.05.012
• Journal of Microscopy (2008), Engelberg, D.L.; Humphreys, F.J.; Marrow, T.J.: The Influence of Low-Strain Thermo-mechanical Processing on Grain Boundary Network Characteristics in Type 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel. Vol. 230, No. 3, p.435-444. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2008.02003.
• Journal of Materials Science (2008), Alyousif, O.M.; Engelberg, D.L.; Marrow, T.J.: Surface Grain Boundary Engineering of Shot-peened Type 304 Stainless Steel. Vol. 43, p.1270-1277. DOI 10.1007/s10853.007.2252-z
• Shreir's Corrosion (2010), Engelberg, D.L.: Corrosion in Liquids, Vol. 2.06, Types of Corrosion in Liquids: Intergranular Corrosion, p.810-827, Elsevier. ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52788-2.
• Environment-induced Cracking of Materials-2 (2007), Engelberg, D.L.; Marrow, T.J.; Newman, R.C.; Babout, L.: Grain Boundary Engineering for Crack Bridging: A New Model for Intergranular Stress Corrosion Crack (IGSCC) Propagation. Volume 1. Chemistry, Mechanics and Mechanisms, Section 1-5, p.69-79, Banff, Canada. Elsevier, ISBN-13: 978-0-08-044635-6.
• Environment-induced Cracking of Materials-2 (2007), Marrow, T.J.; Babout, L.; Connolly, B.J.; Engelberg, D.; Johnson, G.; Buffiere, J.-Y.; Newman, R.C.: High-resolution, In-situ, Tomographic Observations of Stress Corrosion Cracking. Volume 2. Prediction, Industrial Developments and Evaluations, Section 8-33, p.439-447, Banff, Canada. Elsevier, ISBN-13: 978-0-08-044635-6.
• THERMEC (2009) - International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, Berlin, Germany. "Towards Understanding the Development of Grain Boundary Clusters in Austenitic Stainless Steel".
• GORDON Research Conference on Aqueous Corrosion (2008), New London, USA. "New Imaging and Diffraction-based Approaches for the In-situ Study of Environment-assisted Cracking in Stainless Steels".
• EICM-2 (2004) - Environment-induced Cracking of Materials-2, Banff, Canada. "Grain Boundary Engineering for Crack Bridging – A New Model for Intergranular Stress Corrosion Crack (IGSCC) Propagation".