Professor Gordon Lorimer

My research has concentrated on solid state phase transformations in metals and minerals. At the present time I am undertaking studies into precipitation hardening in aluminium and magnesium alloys.

I am interested in the development of wrought magnesium alloys and am part of a research group in the Materials Science Centre investigating the deformation and recrystallization of magnesium alloys.

I have had a long term interest in transmission electron microscopy and, with other colleagues in the School of Materials, have been responsible for the development of the microscope and specimen preparation facilities in Materials Science. I am interested in quantitative thin foil microanalysis in TEM and STEM.

• Microstructure/property relationships in Al-Zn-Mg and Al-Mg-Si alloys.
• Precipitation hardening in magnesium alloys.
• The thermomechanical processing of magnesium alloys.

• L Gill, G W Lorimer and P Lyon. Microstructure/Property Relationships of Three Mg-RE-Zn-Zr Alloys, ibid, pp. 421-426 2003.
• D Ludlow, G W Lorimer, J-C Geblin, W D Griffiths, J King, T Wilks and K Savage Influence of Direct Chill Casting Parameters on a Magnesium Alloy, ibid, pp.732-737 2003.
• M Cai, D Field and G W Lorimer. A systematic comparison of static and dynamic ageing of two Al-Mg-Si Alloys. Mat. Sci. and Eng. A 373 pp. 65-71 2004.
• L W F Mackenzie, G W Lorimer, F J Humphreys and T Wilks. Recrystallization Behaviour of Two Magnesium Alloys. Mater. Sci. Forum pp. 467-482 2004.
• X M Wang, G W Lorimer and P Xiao. Solvothermal Synthesis and Processing of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Nanopower. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005
• G W Lorimer, L W F Mackenzie, F J Humphreys and T Wilks. The Recrystallization Behavior of AZ31 and WE43, in Mater. Sci. Forum 488-489, pp. 99-102 2005.
• Jianping Li, G W Lorimer, J Robson and B Davis. Investigation on Microstructures of Heat Treated Mg-Zr and Mg-Mn Alloys, ibid pp. 189-192 2005.
• Jianpig Li, G W Lorimer, J. Robson and B Davis. The Microstructure of As-Cast Mg-Zr and Mg-Mn Alloys, ibid pp. 329-332 2005