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Dr Catherine M Bishop

Mechanical Engineering

Fields of Research

  • Materials science and engineering
  • Computational materials science
  • Interfaces in ceramics
  • Material thermodynamics

Researcher Summary

Research interests include: Interfaces in materials; grain boundaries in ceramics; complexion; grain growth; grain boundary engineering; modeling interfaces with the phase-field model; interfacial phase diagrams; material thermodynamics, grain boundaries in strontium titanate, intergranular films in ceramics, silicon nitride.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Research Groups

Future Research

  • Develop phase-field model to study interface transitions
  • Develop model for interfaces in strontium titanate
  • Study grain growth in systems with complexion transitions

Key Methodologies

  • Phase-field modelling
  • Diffuse interface theory

Affiliations

Research Service

  • Co-supervision PhD student: Ben Gardiner "Understanding the creep characteristics and performance of alloy 800HT" (2009-present)
  • Co-supervision PhD student: Karl Buchanan "The Effect of Micro-alloying Elements on the Life of the HP Reformer Tubes" (2009-present)
  • Co-supervision PhD student: Pawan Kumar "Tungsten Wire Reinforcement of Stainless Steel Matrix for Creep Resistance" (2009-present)
  • Co-supervision PhD student: Dan Drabble "The Effect of Sequential Thermo-Mechanical Processing on the Properties of Alloy 800H/HT" (2008-2011)

Publications


  • Drabble, D.J., Bishop, C.M. and Kral, M.V. (2011) A Microstructural Study of Grain Boundary Engineered Alloy 800H. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 42(3): 763-772. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11661-010-0447-4. (Journal Article)
  • Bäurer, M., Shih, S-J., Bishop, C., Harmer, M.P., Cockayne, D. and Hoffmann, M.J. (2010) Abnormal Grain Growth in Undoped Strontium and Barium Titanate. Acta Materialia 58(1): 290-300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2009.09.007. (Journal Article)
  • Krumdieck, S.P., Reyngoud, B.P., Barnett, A.D., Clearwater, D.J., Hartshorn, R.M., Bishop, C.M., Redwood, B.P. and Palmer, E.L. (2010) Deposition of Bio-Integration Ceramic Hydroxyapatite by Pulsed-Pressure MOCVD Using a Single Liquid Precursor Solution. Chemical Vapor Deposition 16(1-3): 55-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cvde.200906839. (Journal Article)
  • Bishop, C.M. (2009) Defect Chemistry in Continuum Models of Grain Boundaries: Strontium Titanate. Macungie, PA, USA: International Workshop on Interfaces at Bear Creek, 20-24 Oct 2009. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Shih, S-J., Bishop, C. and Cockayne, D.J.H. (2009) Distribution of [Sigma]3 misorientations in polycrystalline strontium titanate. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 29(14): 3023-3029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2009.04.020. (Journal Article)
  • Bishop, C.M. (2009) Grain Boundary Defect Chemistry Modelling and Grain Growth in Strontium Titanate. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Materials Science &Technology (MS&T) 2009 Conference & Exhibition, 25-29 Oct 2009. (Conference Contribution - Poster presentation)
  • Bishop, C.M. (2008) A Phase Field Model for Grain Boundaries in Ceramics: Strontium Titanate. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: International Workshop on Interfaces, 22-26 Jun 2008. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Bishop, C.M., Tang, M., Cannon, R.M. and Carter, W.C. (2006) Continuum Modelling and Representations of Interfaces and their Transitions in Materials. Materials Science and Engineering A 422(1-2): 102-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2006.01.013. (Journal Article)
  • Tang, M., Bishop, C.M. and Carter, W.C. (2005) A Diffuse Interface Theory for Interfacial Phase Transitions in Single Phase Polycrystalline Alloys. Pittsburg, PA, USA: Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) Conference 2005, 25-28 Sep 2005. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Bishop, C.M., Satet, R.L., Cannon, R.M., Carter, W.C. and Roosen, A.R. (2005) A simple model of fully-faceted grain growth and coarsening with non-linear growth laws. Zeitschrift fur Metallkunde 96(2): 124-134. (Journal Article)
  • Garcia, R.E., Chiang, Y-M., Carter, W.C., Limthongkul, P. and Bishop, C.M. (2005) Microstructural Modeling and Design of Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries. Journal of the Electrochemical Society 152(1): A255-A263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1.1836132. (Journal Article)
  • Bishop, C.M., Cannon, R. and Carter, W.C. (2005) Stable Intergranular Films from a Phase Field Model. Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) Conference 2005, 25-28 Sep 2005. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Bishop, C.M., Tang, M., Cannon, R.M. and Carter W.C. (2005) Stable Intergranular Films from a Phase-field Model. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: International Workshop on Interfaces, 26-30 Jun 2005. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • R.E. Garcia, C.M. Bishop. and W.C. Carter. (2004) Thermodynamically Consistent Variational Principles with Applications to Electrically and Magnetically Active Systems. Acta Materialia 52: 11-21. (Journal Article)
  • C.M. Bishop. (2003) Continuum Models for Intergranular Films in Silicon Nitride and Comparison to Atomistic Simulations. PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Thesis - Doctor of Philosophy)
  • C.M. Bishop, R.E. Garcia. and W.C. Carter. (2003) Effect of Charge Separation on the Stability of Large-Wavelength Fluctuations during Spinodal Decomposition. Acta Materialia 51: 1517-1524. (Journal Article)
  • C.M. Bishop. and W.C. Carter. (2002) Relating atomistic grain boundary simulation results to the phase-field model. Computational Materials Science 25: 378-386. (Journal Article)
  • C.M. Bishop. and W.C. Carter. (2000) Modelling the Effect of Composition on the Stability of Equilibrium Intergranular Films with Diffuse Interfaces. Boston: MRS Fall Meeting, December 1999. In Interfacial Engineering for Optimized Properties II: Proceedings of the Materials Research Society 586 75-79. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Meier, D.L., Davis, H.P., Shibata, A., Abe, T., Kinoshita, K., Bishop, C., Mahajan, S., Rohatgi, A., Doshi, P. and Finnegan, M. (1998) Self-doping contacts and associated silicon solar cell structures. Vienna, Austria: Conference and Exhibition on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion, 6-10 July 1998. In Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference and Exhibition on Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion 1491-1494. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)