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John H. Beynon Dean of EngineeringProfessor

Professor John H. Beynon
Office:
EN702c
Phone:
+61 3 9214 4820
Fax:
+61 3 9214 8264
E-Mail:
jbeynon @swin.edu.au
Faculty of Engineering & Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Sheffield, UK, 1980
  • BMet (First Class Honours), University of Sheffield, UK, 1974

Areas of Expertise and Research

Interaction of materials science (principally physical metallurgy) and applied mechanics to solve engineering problems, particularly in thermomechanical processing and structural integrity, using computer-based modelling, experiment and industrial input.

Membership of Professional Organisations

  • Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (FREng)
  • Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK (FIMMM)
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng, UK)
  • Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
  • Deputy President, Australian Council of Engineering Deans

Publications

Research outcomes have been disseminated through some 85 refereed journal and 19 refereed conference publications, in addition to over 100 other publications. A selection of publications, indicating the range of topics pursued, follows:

  1. J H Beynon and C M Sellars "Modelling microstructure and its effects during multipass hot rolling" ISIJ International, volume 32 (1992) 3, 359-367.
  2. J H Beynon, R Gloss and P D Hodgson "The production of ultrafine equiaxed ferrite in a low carbon microalloyed steel by thermomechanical treatment" Materials Forum, volume 16 (1992) 1, 37-42.
  3. W R Tyfour, J H Beynon and A Kapoor "The steady state wear behaviour of pearlitic rail steel under dry rolling-sliding contact conditions" Wear, volume 180 (1995) 1-2, 79-89.
  4. W R Tyfour, J H Beynon and A Kapoor "Deterioration of rolling contact fatigue life of pearlitic rail steel due to dry-wet rolling-sliding line contact" Wear, volume 197 (1996) 1-2, 255-265.
  5. J H Beynon "Tribology of hot metal forming" Tribology International, volume 31 (1998) 1-3, 73-77.
  6. J H Beynon "Modelling the development of microstructure during hot rolling and cooling" Scandinavian Journal of Metallurgy, volume 27 (1998) 1, 31-36.
  7. M Krzyzanowski and J H Beynon "The tensile failure of mild steel oxides under hot rolling conditions" Steel Research International, volume 70 (1999) 1, 22-27.
  8. J H Beynon "Finite-element modelling of thermomechanical processing" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, volume 357 (1999) 1756, 1573-1587.
  9. D I Fletcher and J H Beynon "A simple method of stress intensity factor calculation for inclined fluid-filled surface-breaking cracks under contact loading" Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J, Journal of Engineering Tribology, volume 213 (1999) 4, 299-304.
  10. D I Fletcher and J H Beynon "A simple method of stress intensity factor calculation for inclined surface breaking cracks with crack face friction under contact loading" Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J, Journal of Engineering Tribology, volume 213 (1999) 6, 481-486.
  11. J W Ringsberg, M Loo-Morrey, B L Josefson, A Kapoor and J H Beynon "Prediction of fatigue crack initiation for rolling contact fatigue" International Journal of Fatigue, volume 22 (2000) 3, 205-215.
  12. M Krzyzanowski, J H Beynon and C M Sellars "Analysis of secondary oxide scale failure at entry into the roll gap" Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, volume 31B (2000) 6, 1483-1490.
  13. D I Fletcher and J H Beynon "Equilibrium of crack growth and wear rates during unlubricated rolling-sliding contact of pearlitic rail steel" Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F, Journal of Rail & Rapid Transit, 214 (2000) 2, 93-105.
  14. S L Semiatin, J Brown, T Brown, D P Delo, T R Bieler & J H Beynon "Strain-Path effects during hot working of Ti-6AI-4V with a colony-alpha microstructure" Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 32A (2001) 6, 1556-1559.
  15. M F Frolish, D I Fletcher and J H Beynon "A quantitative model for predicting the morphology of surface initiated rolling contact fatigue cracks in back-up roll steels" Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, volume 25 (2002) 11, 1073-1086.
  16. Q Zhu, B P Wynne, J H Beynon and C M Sellars "Texture evolution of AA5052 during monotonic and reversed hot deformation and subsequent recrystallisation" Materials Science Forum, volumes 408-412 (2002) 1489-1494.
  17. R L Higginson, C Pinna, J H Beynon and B P Wynne "Effect of roll pass schedule on through thickness texture development in Al-Mn alloy" Materials Science and Technology, volume 19 (2003) 4, 477-482.
  18. Q Zhu, M F Abbod, J Talamantes-Silva, C M Sellars, D A Linkens and J H Beynon "Hybrid modelling of aluminium-magnesium alloys during thermomechanical processing in terms of physically-based, neuro-fuzzy and finite element models" Acta Materialia, volume 51 (2003) 17, 5051-5062.
  19. P Cizek, J A Whiteman, W M Rainforth and J H Beynon "EBSD and TEM investigation of the hot deformation substructure characteristics of a type 316L austenitic stainless steel" Journal of Microscopy, volume 213 (2004) 3, 285-295.
  20. J H Beynon and C M Sellars "Models for predicting microstructural evolution" Chapter in ASM Handbook Volume 14A: Metalworking: Bulk Forming, edited by S L Semiatin (2005) 660-670.
  21. E Hernandez-Castillo, J H Beynon, C Pinna and S van der Zwaag "Micro-scale strain distribution in hot-worked duplex stainless steel" Steel Research International, volume 76 (2005) 2-3, 137-141.
  22. S P Jupp and J H Beynon "A study of friction in non-lubricated high temperature steel processing" Steel Research International, volume 76 (2005) 5, 385-389.
  23. M F Frolish, J Walker, C Jiao, W M Rainforth and J H Beynon "Formation and structure of a subsurface layer in hot rolled aluminium alloy AA3104 transfer bar" Tribology International, volume 38 (2005) 11-12, 1050-1058.
  24. M Krzyzanowski, J H Beynon, R Kuziak and M Pietrzyk "Development of technique for identification of phase transformation model parameters on the basis of measurement of dilatometric effect - direct problem" ISIJ International, volume 46 (2006) 1, 147-154.
  25. R I Carroll and J H Beynon "Decarburisation and rolling contact fatigue of a rail steel" Wear, volume 260 (2006) 4-5, 523-537.
  26. M Krzyzanowski and J H Beynon "Modelling the behaviour of oxide scale in hot rolling", ISIJ International, volume 46 (2006) 11, 1533-1547.
  27. M L Blackmore, B P Wynne, J H Beynon and P S Davies "Strain Path Effects on Titanium Alloy Timetal-834 under Hot Working Conditions" Advanced Materials Research, volumes 15-17 (2007) 959-964.
  28. J Hinton and J H Beynon "Restoration processes during hot deformation in the d-ferrite and austenite dual phase region of AISI430 ferritic stainless steel" ISIJ International, volume 47 (2007) 10, 1465-1474.
  29. G Angella, B P Wynne, W M Rainforth and J H Beynon "Strength of AISI 316L in torsion at high temperature" Materials Science and Engineering A, 475 (2008) 1-2, 257-267.
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