Christopher Hutchinson

Professor

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

EmailChristopher.Hutchinson@monash.edu

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Biography

Professor Christopher Hutchinson’s research covers all aspects of the metallurgy of engineering alloys. This includes work on Steels and Stainless steels, Aluminium alloys, Copper and Brasses, Titanium alloys and Magnesium alloys.

Christopher’s emphasis is on manipulation of the chemistry and processing of engineering alloys to create new alloy structures that exhibit improved combinations of mechanical properties such as strength, elongation, impact, wear and fatigue etc.

Approximately half of his research is conducted in collaboration with Industry (automotive, aerospace, rail, manufacturing, oil and gas) and half funded by fundamental research agencies such as the Australian Research Council (ARC). Professor Hutchinson was a recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship in the inaugural round of 2009, was a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals (2005-2013) and is currently a Chief Investigator in the ARC Industry Transformation Training Centre in Alloy Innovation for Mining Efficiency (2016-2021).

Christopher’s work combines, in roughly equal parts, advanced experimentation and characterisation (including electron microscopy, synchrotron x-ray radiation and neutron diffraction) and theory and computer modelling of the response of alloy structures to changes in materials processing and deformation.

Current projects include the development of new ultra-high strength steels (>2GPa) for the automotive industry, process optimization for 3^rd generation advanced high strength steels (AHSS), new ‘dynamically responding’ fatigue resistant Al alloys with properties that improve rather than deteriorate during loading, recrystallization studies of commercial Al alloys, surface modification of engineering alloys, 3D printing of stainless steels for on-demand replacement parts, and process optimisation for thermo-mechanical processing of Brasses.

In addition to his core metallurgy focus, Professor Hutchinson is involved in a large range of Civil Engineering and Architecture projects where he provides metallurgy expertise.

Keywords

Physical Metallurgy
Mechanical Metallurgy
Modelling and Simulation of Materials
Steel
Aluminium alloys
3D Metal printing

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Projects 2013 2021

1 Finished
1 Not started
1 Active

Skin in the game: biomimetics, fitness and the springtail cuticle

Chown, S. & Hutchinson, C.

1/01/19 → 31/12/21

Project: Research

Enabling future technology by building light element analysis capability; a light element optimised ultra-high resolution electron microprobe

Tomkins, A., Bhargava, S., Boger, S., Brooks, G., Hutchinson, C., Tardio, J., Weinberg, R., Wen, C., MacRae, C., Pownceby, M. & Wilson, N.

Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology, CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation , The University of Melbourne

Project: Research

An X-ray scattering facility for advanced characterisation of natural and novel materials

Wilson, S., Cheng, Y., Davies, C., Guo, Q., Hodgson, P., Hutchinson, C., Kamenetsky, V., Stanford, N., Wallace, M., Webb, J., Yang, W. & Zhang, L.

Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University, Deakin University, La Trobe University, University of Tasmania, The University of Melbourne

20/05/13 → 30/04/14

Project: Research

Research Output 1997 2019

102 Article
45 Conference Paper
5 Abstract
2 Chapter (Book)
4 More

Influence of precipitation on yield elongation in Mg-Zn alloys

Wang, J., Ferdowsi, M. R. G., Kada, S. R., Hutchinson, C. R. & Barnett, M. R., 1 Feb 2019, In : Scripta Materialia. 160, p. 5-8 4 p.