International Technical Advisory Committee  
 
Professor Yuri Estrin
 
  • MSc (Metallurgy & Physics) Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics, 1969
• PhD (Solid State Physics) Institute of Crystallography, Acad. Sci. USSR, Moscow, 1975
• Habilitation, Higher Doctorate (Physics of Materials) University of Technology of Hamburg-Harburg, 1986
 
Department of Materials Engineering
 
  Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800 and
CSIRO Division of Manufacturing and Materials Technology,
Clayton South, VIC, 3169
Phone: +61 (3) 9905 9599 Fax: + 61 (3) 9905 4940
Email: yuri.estrin@eng.monash.edu.au and yuri.estrin@csiro.au
 
Research interests
 
Professor Estrin's research interests include various areas of physical metallurgy: dislocation theory, strength and plasticity of materials, constitutive modelling, severe plastic deformation, nanomaterials including nanomechanics, light alloys, alloy design, thin films, hybrid materials and multimaterials, design of novel materials based on geometry principles.
 
Selected publications
 
1. Y. Estrin, G. Gottstein & L.S. Shvindlerman, "Thermodynamic effects on the kinetics of vacancy-generating processes", Acta Materialia. 47. 3541 (1999).
2. H.S. Kim, Y. Estrin & M.B. Bush, "Plastic deformation behaviour of fine grained materials", Acta Materialia, 48, 493-504 (2000).
3. A Dyskin, Y. Estrin, A. Kanel-Belov & E. Pasternak, "A new concept in design of materials: Assemblies of interlocked tetrahedron-shaped elements”, Scripta mater. 44, 2689-2694 (2001).
4. L. Toth, A. Molinari & Y. Estrin, “Strain hardening at Large Strains as Predicted by a Dislocation Based Polycrystal Model”, J. Eng. Mater. Techn. 124, pp. 71-77 (2002).
5. S.C. Baik, Y. Estrin, H.S. Kim & R.J. Hellmig, "Dislocation density based modeling of deformation behaviour of aluminium under equal channel angular pressing", Mater. Sci. Eng. A.351, 86 (2003).
6. Y. Estrin, A.V. Dyskin, E. Pasternak, H.C. Khor & A.J. Kanel-Belov, “Topological interlocking of protective tiles for space shuttle”, Phil. Mag. Letters 83, 351 (2003).
7. V. Skripnyuk, E. Rabkin, Y. Estrin & R. Lapovok, “The effect of ball milling and equal channel angular pressing on the hydrogen absorption/desorption properties of Mg-4.95 wt. % Zn-0.71 wt. % Zr (ZK60) alloy”, Acta Materialia 52, 405-414 (2004).
8. Y. Estrin, "Effects of severe plastic deformation: Mechanical properties and beyond", Mater. Sci. Forum, 503-504, 91-98 (2006).
9. R.Z. Valiev, Y. Estrin, Z. Horita, T.G. Langdon, M.J. Zehetbauer & Y.T. Zhu, "Producing bulk nanomaterials by severe plastic deformation", Journal of Metals (JOM), 58 (4), 33-39.
10. Y. Estrin, "Constitutive modeling of creep of metallic materials: Some simple recipes", Mater. Sci. Eng. A.463, 171-176 (2007).
 
 
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