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Address
School of Engineering and Electronics,
Institute for Materials and Processes and
Centre for Materials Science and Engineering
The
Edinburgh EH9 3JL, United Kingdom
+44 131 650 5671 office
+44 131 651 3470 fax
M.Zaiser@ed.ac.uk
Research interests
Mechanical Properties and Strength of Materials: Theoretical and Computational Modelling
- Dynamics of Dislocations and Plastic Flow of
Metals and Alloys
- Multiscale Modelling of Plasticity: Scale
Transitions and Internal Length Scales
- Fracture and Failure of Heterogeneous Materials
- Mechanics of Snow, Skiing, and Snow Avalanches
- Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes
and Carbon Nanotube Composites
- Irradiation Effects in Carbon Nanostructures
Some publications
- J. Heierli, P. Gumbsch and
M. Zaiser
Anticrack nucleation as triggering mechanism for snow slab avalanches.
Science 321, 240-243 (2008).
- F. F. Csikor, C. Motz, D. Weygand, M. Zaiser and S. Zapperi
Dislocation avalanches, strain bursts, and the problem of plastic
forming at the micron scale.
Science 318, 251-254 (2007).
- M. Zaiser
Scale invariance in plastic flow of crystalline solids
Advances in Physics 54, 185-245 (2006).
- M. Zaiser, F. Madani,
V. Koutsos and E.C. Aifantis
Self-affine surface morphology of
plastically deformed metals,
Physical Review Letters 93, 195507 1-4 (2004).
- I. Groma,
F. Csikor and M. Zaiser
Spatial Correlations and
Higher-Order Gradient Terms in a Continuum Description of Dislocation Dynamics,
Acta Materialia 51,
1271-1281 (2003).
- M. Zaiser and F. Banhart
Radiation-induced
transformation of graphite to diamond,
Physical Review Letters 79, 3680-3683 (1997).
Miscellaneous
