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Professor Brian Wilshire

Specialist Subjects: Steel Technology, Creep and Creep Fracture

Books (Co-author)

  • Technological and Economic Trends in the Steel Industries, B Wilshire, D Homer and N L Cooke, Pineridge Press, Swansea, 1983, pp.313.
  • Creep of Metals and Alloys, R W Evans and B Wilshire, The Institute of Metals, London, 1985, pp.314.
  • Introduction to Creep, R W Evans and B Wilshire, The Institute of Materials, 1993, pp.115.

State-of-the-Art Texts (Co-editor)

  • Recent Advances in Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, B Wilshire and D R J Owen (Ed.), Pineridge Press, Swansea, 1982, pp.353.
  • Engineering Approaches to High Temperature Design, B Wilshire and D R J Owen (Ed.), Pineridge Press, Swansea, 1983, pp.370.
  • Creep Behaviour of Crystalline Solids, B Wilshire and R W Evans (Ed.), Pineridge Press, Swansea, 1985, pp.362.

 

International Conference Proceedings (Co-editor)

  • Proceedings of First International Conference on ‘Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures’, B Wilshire and D R J Owen (Ed.), Pineridge Press, Swansea, 1981, pp.669.
  • Proceedings of Second International Conference on ‘Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures’, B Wilshire and D R J Owen (Ed.), Pineridge Press, Swansea, 1984, pp.1367.
  • Proceedings of Third International Conference on ‘Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures’, B Wilshire and R W Evans (Ed.), The Institute of Metals, London, 1987, pp.1043.
  • Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on ‘Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures’, B Wilshire and R W Evans (Ed.), The Institute of Metals, London, 1990, pp.1139.
  • Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on ‘Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures’, B Wilshire and R W Evans (Ed.), The Institute of Materials, 1993, pp.812.

Research Publications

  • New high-value powder products, B Wilshire, J D James and R J Gowland, Proc. Int. Conf. on ‘Recent Advances in Materials and Mineral Resources’, USM, Malaysia, 1994, 48-55.
  • Selection of high-temperature aluminium airframe alloys for supersonic aircraft, B Wilshire, I Pearce, R W Evans, R I Butt and R N Wilson, Proc. Int. Conf. on ‘Recent Advances in Materials and Mineral Resources’, USM, Malaysia, 1994, 56-63.
  • Discrimination between geometrically equivalent particles of hematite, maghemite and magnetite using an aerosol shape analysis system, J S Burke, J M Clark, R J Gowland, B Wilshire and J D Carpenter, Eight Annual Conference of the Aerosol Society Proceedings, ‘Aerosols, their generation, behaviour and applications’, The Aerosol Society, Bristol, 1994, 38-41.
  • Designer materials for fingerprint detection, B Wilshire, Materials World,  1994, 2,  534.
  • Micro-models and macro-laws of creep fracture
    B Wilshire, R W Evans, M R Willis, I Pearce and R J Hull
    ICF7, Kiev, 1993, ‘Advances in Fracture Resistance and Structural Integrity’ (Ed. V V Panasyuk, D M R Taplin, M C Pandy, O Ye Andreykin, R O Ritchie, J F Knott and P Rama Rao), Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1994, 529-536.
  • Creep fracture behaviour of the near-alpha titanium alloy IMI834
    R W Evans, R J Hull and B Wilshire
    ICF7, Kiev, 1993, ‘Advances in Fracture Resistance and Structural Integrity’ (Ed. V V Panasyuk, D M R Taplin, M C Pandy, O Ye Andreykin, R O Ritchie, J F Knott and P Rama Rao), Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1994, 521-528.
  • Deformation and failure processes during tensile creep of sintered silicon carbide, B Wilshire and H Jiang, Brit. Ceram. Trans., 1994, 93,  213-216.
  • Creep mechanisms in single and polycrystalline MgO, B Wilshire, Brit. Ceram. Trans., 1995, 94,  57-63.
  • Embrittlement of 12CrMoV bolting steel, J D Parker and B Wilshire, Proc. Conf. on ‘Performance of Bolting Materials in High Temperature Plant Applications’, (Ed. A Strang), Institute of Materials, London, 1995, 163-174.
  • Recent advances in magnetic flake fingerprint technology, B Wilshire and J D James, Proc. Conf. IAFS-13, ‘Advances in Forensic Sciences’ (Ed. B Jacob and W Bonte), 4, ‘Forensic Criminalistics 2’, Verlag Dr Köster, Berlin, 1995, 283-289.
  • Development of latent fingerprints on paper using magnetic flake, B Wilshire and N Hurley, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1995, 40,  837-841.
  • Advances in techniques for revealing latent fingerprints at crime scenes, B Wilshire, N Hurley and A K Masrom, Proc. Inter. Conf. on ‘Advances in strategic technologies’, UKM Malaysia, 1995, 85-94.
  • Cost-effective quality enhancement of materials education, B Wilshire, M P Stammers and R E Smallman, In ‘Towards the millennium: A materials perspective’, (Ed. K E Ashbee and I R Harris), The Institute of Materials, 1995, 133-147.
  • The effects of alpha-case formation on the creep fracture properties of the high-temperature titanium alloy IMI834, R W Evans, R J Hull and B Wilshire, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 1996, 56, 492-501.  (Elsevier Science SA republishing of Dublin conference paper AMPT ’93), Reference No. 174.
  • Creep data prediction for engineering alloys, R W Evans and B Wilshire, In ‘Structural Materials: Engineering Applications through Scientific Insight’, (Ed. E D Hondros and M McLean), The Institute of Materials, 1996, 155-172.
  • Model-based prediction of the creep properties of oxide-dispersion-strengthened ferritic steels, B Wilshire, Proc. 41st Symposium on Strength and Fracture of Materials, Tokyo, Japan, 1996, 41, 19-26.
  • Constitutive laws for high temperature creep and creep fracture, R W Evans and B Wilshire, In ‘Unified constitutive laws of plastic deformation’, (Ed. A S Krausz and K Krausz), Academic Press, 1996,  107-152.
  • Advances in fingerprint detection, B Wilshire, Endeavour,  1996, 12-15.
  • Development of two-dimensional footwear impressions using magnetic flake powders, B Wilshire and N Hurley, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1996, 41,  678-680.
  • Advanced airframe alloys for supersonic transport, B Wilshire, I Pearce, R W Evans and A K Masrom,  Proc. 4th Int. Symposium on Advanced Materials,  (Eds. Anwar Ul Haq, F Habiby, N Ahmad, A A Mazhar and A Q Khan),  Pakistan, 1996, 356-361.
  • Orientation-related phenomena in Al-Li sheet during superplastic forming, V Randle and B Wilshire, Proc. ACXRI ’96, USM, Malaysia, 1996, 47-52.
  • Calcination of limestone for basic oxygen steelmaking, S A Summers, B Wilshire and D V Barradell, Limestone ’96, USM, Malaysia, 1996, 211-218.
  • Metallic strip handling apparatus (Wrench Marking), Patent Application No. 9619177.0.  1996.
  • Creep mechanisms in oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloys, B Wilshire, Proc. 7th Int. Conf. on ‘Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures’,  (Ed. J C Earthman and F A Mohamed),  TMS, Warrendale, Pa. 1997, 19-28.
  • Tensile creep and creep fracture of a fibre-reinforced SiC/SiC composite, B Wilshire, F Carreño and M J L Percival, Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia, 1998, 39, 729.
  • Case studies in diffusional creep, B Wilshire, Creep Behavior of Advanced Materials for the 21st Century, (Ed. R S Mishra, A K Mukherjee and K L Murty), TMS, Warrendale, Pa. 1999, 451-460.
  • Deformation and failure processes during tensile creep of fibre and whisker reinforced SiC/Al203 composites, B Wilshire and F Carreño, Materials Science and Engineering 1999, A272, 38-44.
  • High-performance ceramic-matrix composites for aerospace applications, B Wilshire and F Carreño, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on ‘Recent Advances in Materials and Mineral Resources’, USM, Malaysia, 1999, 1-10.
  • Optimization of lime quality for basic oxygen steelmaking, B Wilshire, S A Summers and D V Barradell, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on ‘Recent Advances in Materials and Mineral Resources’, USM, Malaysia, 1999, 651-661. 
  • Alternative approaches to creep data analyses for ceramic-fibre-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites, B Wilshire and F Carreño, Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on ‘Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures’, (Ed. T Sakuma and K Yagi), Trans. Tech. Publ., Switzerland, 2000, 171-174, 725-732.
  • Tensile creep of alumina-matrix composites reinforced with whiskers or fibres of silicon carbide, B Wilshire, F Carreño and M J L Percival, 6th Interregional European Colloquium on ‘Ceramics and Composites’ - IEKC-6 Stuttgart, (Ed. R. Gadow), 2000, 206-213.
  • Deformation and damage processes during tensile creep of ceramic-fibre-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites, B Wilshire and F Carreño, Journal of European Ceramic Society, 2000, 20, 463-472.
  • Creep processes in dispersion-strengthened alloys, B Wilshire, Deformation, Processing and Properties of Structural Materials (Ed. E M Taleff, C K Syn and D R Lesuer), TMS, Warrendale, Pa. 2000, 195-206.
  • The production of ferritically hot rolled interstitial-free steel on a modern hot strip mill, C J Barrett and B Wilshire, ‘Building on manufacturing advances of the 1990s’, Galway, Ireland, 2000,
  • Creep of ceramic-fibre-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites, B Wilshire and H Burt, Proc. Inter. Conf. on ‘Engineering and Technological Sciences Advanced Materials’ (Ed. J Song and R Yin), New World Press, Beijing, 2000, 3, 62-67.
  • Creep of oxide-dispersion-strengthened ferritic steels, B Wilshire, Proc. Inter. Conf. on ‘Engineering and Technological Sciences Advanced Materials’ (Ed. J Song and R Yin), New World Press, Beijing, 2000, 3, 68-73.
  • Crystallographic texture development in ferritically hot rolled interstitial-free steel, C Barrett and B Wilshire, Nucl. Sci. J.,2000, 259-270.
  • Grain size and shape effects during creep of oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloys, B Wilshire, ‘Grain Boundaries: Their Character, Characterisation and Influence on Properties’ (Ed. I R Harris and I P Jones), IOM Communications, 2001, 131-145
  • Creep and creep fracture of the aluminium alloy, 2124-T851, B Wilshire and H Burt, Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on ‘Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures’ (Ed. J D Parker), The Institute of Materials, 2001, 261-268.
  • Creep and creep fracture of prestrained Type 316H stainless steel, B Wilshire and M R Willis, ‘Creep Resistant Metallic Materials’, (Ed. J Purmensky), Teris, Prague,. 2001, 6-15.
  • Metallurgical aspects relating to the production of ferritically hot rolled interstitial-free steel, C J Barrett and B Wilshire, Proc. Inst. Mech. Engrs., 2001, 215B, 1151-1155.
  • Creep fracture of ceramic-matrix composites, B. Wilshire and H Burt, Proc. 10th Inter. Conf. on ‘Fracture’, (Ed. K Ravi-Chandar, B L Karihaloo, T Kishi, R O Ritchie and A T Yokobori Jr.), Elsevier Publication No. ICFO129, 2001, pp10, (C.D. Rom).
  • Creep data comparisons for SiCf/SiC composites, B Wilshire, J. Mater. Prod. Tech., 2001, 2, 538-45.    
  • Grain size effects during creep of copper, B Wilshire and C J Palmer, Scripta Materialia, 2002, 46, 483-88. 
  • Observations, theories and predictions of high temperature creep behaviour, B Wilshire , Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 2002, 33A, 241-48.
  • Deformation processes during creep of pure aluminium, B Wilshire and C J Palmer, Creep Deformation:  Fundamentals and Applications (Ed. R.S. Mishra, J.C. Earthman and S.V. Raj), TMS, Warrendale, Pa, 2002, 51-60.
  • Creep and creep fracture of aluminium alloys for high-temperature airframe applications, B Wilshire and H Burt, Creep Deformation:  Fundamentals and Applications (ed. R.S. Mishra, J C Earthman and S.V. Raj), TMS, Warrendale, Pa, .2002, 269-78.
  • Creep damage tolerance of ceramic-fibre-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites, H Burt and B Wilshire, Proc. 8th Portuguese Conference on ‘Fracture’, 2002, 401-8.
  • Creep property comparisons for ceramic-fibre-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites, B Wilshire, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc.  2002, 22, 1329-37.
  • The challenge to produce consistent mechanical properties in Nb-HSLA strip steels,  J.K. Patel and B Wilshire, J. Mats. Proc. Tech., 2002, 120, 316-21.
  • Creep and creep fracture of 7010-T7351, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Mater. Sci. Forum, 2002, 396-402, 1309-1314.
  • Creep data prediction for aluminium airframe alloys, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Materials Science Forum. 2003, 426-432, 261-66.
  • Knowledge frontiers in strength and fracture of complex creep-resistant alloys, B Wilshire, Strength, Fracture and Complexity, 2003, 1, 39-46
  • Microstructural instability during long-term creep exposure of aluminium airframe alloys, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Proc. 3rd Inter. Conf on ‘Recent Advances in Materials, Minerals and Environment’, (Eds. L. B. Hussain, N. M. Sharif and H. M. Akil), 2003, Malaysia 9-16.
  • Mechanisms of strain accumulation and damage development during creep prestrained 316 stainless steels, B. Wilshire and M. R. Willis, Metall. Mater. Trans. A.  2004, 35A, 563-571
  • Strain accumulation during dislocation creep of prestrained copper, B. Wilshire and C. J. Palmer, Mater. Sci. Eng.  A. 2004, 387-389, 716-718.
  • Theoretical and practical implications of creep curve shape analyses for 2124 and 2419, H. Burt and B. Wilshire, Metall. Mater. Trans. A. 2004, 35A, 1691-1701.
  • Product development avenues for ceramic-fibre-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Proc. 9th European Interregional Conference on Ceramics (Eds. A Negro and L Montanaro), Bardonecchia, Italy, 2004, 237-242.
  • Deformation and damage processes during creep of Incoloy MA957, B. Wilshire and T. D. Lieu, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 2004, 386, 81-90.
  • Acquisition and analysis of short-term creep curves for prediction of long-term engineering design data (Keynote Paper), B Wilshire and H Burt, Proc. 11th Inter. Conf. on ‘Fracture’, ICF4986, 2005, pp6, (C.D. Rom).
  • Theoretical and practical implications of creep curve shape analyses for 8090, H. Burt and B. Wilshire, Metall. Mater. Trans. A. 2005, 36A, 1219-1227.
  • Tertiary creep of metals and alloys, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Z. Metallk.  2005, 96 (6), 552-557.
  • Yield stress rationalization of creep and creep fracture properties, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Scripta Materialia, 2005, 53, 909-914.
  • The theta approach to creep and creep fracture of forged 1Cr-1Mo-0.25V steel, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Strength, Fracture and Complexity, 2005, 3, (1), 1-14.
  • Damage evolution during creep of steels, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Proc. Inter. Conf. on “Creep and Fracture in High Temperature Components”, (Eds.  I.A. Shibli, S.R. Holdsworth and G. Merckling).  DEStech Publications, Lancaster, Pa, 2005, 191-201.
  • A unified theoretical and practical approach to creep and creep fracture, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Proc. Inter. Conf. on “Creep Deformation and Fracture, Design and Life Extension”, (Eds R.S. Mishra, J.C. Earthman, S.V. Raj and R. Viswanathan), MS&T 2005, 3-12
  • Strain accumulation and damage evolution during creep of SiCf/SiC composites, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, 8th International Symposium on ‘Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics’, (Eds. K.W. White, R.C. Bradt, M. Sakai and D. Munz), Springer, New York, 2005, 221-231.
  • Grain and grain boundary zone contributions to strain accumulation during creep of polycrystalline copper, B Wilshire, H Burt and AJ Battenbough, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 2005, 410-411, 16-19. 
  • Long-term creep performance assessment for aluminium airframe alloys, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Journal of Engineering Science, 2005, 1, 1-16.
  • Theoretical and practical implications of creep curve shape analyses for 7010 and 7075, B Wilshire and H Burt, Metall. Mater. Trans. A. 2006, 37A, 1005-1015.
  • Cost-effective acquisition of long-term creep design data, B. Wilshire and H. Burt, Int. Conf. on Pressure Vessels and Piping (OPE 2006). Chennai, India (Feb 2006). Paper Ref.  P-3 (CD Rom).

General Information

OBE, BSc, PhD, DSc, FREng, FIMMM

School of Engineering
Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) 1792 295243
FAX: +44 (0) 1792 295244
E-MAIL: b.wilshire@swansea.ac.uk

Courses Taught