Deputy Director (Research Management) & Chief Investigator  
 
Professor Peter Hodgson
 
  • BEng (Hons) Materials Engineering, Monash University, 1980
• PhD University of Queensland, 1994
 
Centre for Materials and Fibre Innovations
 
  ARC Federation Fellow, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, 3217
Phone: +61 (3) 5227 1251 Fax: +61 (3) 5227 1103
Email: peter.hodgson@deakin.edu.au
 
Research interests
 
Peter conducted research for 16 years at BHP Research Laboratories, Melbourne, before joining Deakin's School of Engineering and Technology in 1996. At BHP he led research activities related to steel processing and the development of new alloys. At Deakin, this research now includes downstream ferrous and non-ferrous manufacturing processes associated with the automotive industry, including the STAMP and FAST collaborative research programs involving Ford, its partner companies and various universities. This has focussed on the application of new materials in the automotive industry with a particular emphasis on drive train and body structures. This includes both manufacturing and product development aspects. Current research interests include thermomechanical processing, fatigue and crash behaviour of materials, biomaterials through powder metallurgy, structure property relationships in ultra refined microstructures, finite element modelling, multiscale modelling and surface engineering.
 
Professor Hodgson was awarded an ARC Federation Fellowship in 2004 to study multiscale approaches to advanced product development.
 
Selected publications
 
1. H. Beladi , G. L. Kelly , A. Shokouhi & P.D. Hodgson, "The Evolution of Ultrafine Ferrite Formation Through Dynamic Strain-Induced Transformation", Materials Science and Engineering A, 371 (2004), 343-352.
2. I. Sabirov, Y. Estrin, M.R. Barnett, I. Timokhina & P.D. Hodgson, "Tensile deformation of an ultrafine-grained aluminium alloy: Micro shear banding and grain boundary sliding", Acta Materialia, Volume 56, Issue 10, June 2008, Pages 2223-2230.
3. X.J. Wang, Y.C. Li, J.G. Lin, Y. Yamada, P.D. Hodgson & C.E. Wen, "In vitro bioactivity evaluation of titanium and niobium metals with different surface morphologies", Acta Biomaterialia, In Press, available online 29 April 2008.
4. I. Sabirov, Y. Estrin, M.R. Barnett, I. Timokhina & P.D. Hodgson, "Enhanced tensile ductility of an ultra-fine-grained aluminum alloy", Scripta Materialia, Volume 58, Issue 3, February 2008, Pages 163-166.
5. J.Y. Xiong, Y.C. Li, X.J. Wang, P.D. Hodgson & C.E. Wen, "Titanium–nickel shape memory alloy foams for bone tissue engineering", Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Volume 1, Issue 3, July 2008, pages 269-273.
6. Hurley, P.J. & Hodgson. P.D., "A Study of Deformation Substructures in Austenite Using a Model Ni-30wt%Fe Alloy". Scripta Materialia. 45. (2001) pp. 25-32
7. Hurley, P.J. & Hodgson, P.D., "Formation of Ultrafine Fine Ferrite in Hot Rolled Strip: Potential Mechanisms for Grain Refinement", Materials Science and Engineering. A302. (2001) pp. 206-214
8. Hurley, P.J. Muddle, B.C. & Hodgson, P.D., "Nucleation Sites for Ultrafine Ferrite Produced by Deformation of Austenite During Single-Pass Strip Rolling", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Vol. 32A (June 2001) pp. 1507-1517
9. Barnett M.R., Kelly, G.L. & Hodgson, P.D, "Inferring Dynamic Recrystallisation in Ferrite Using the Kinetics of Static Recrystallisation", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Vol. 33A (June 2002) pp. 1893-1899
10. Roucoules, C. Pietrzyk, M. & Hodgson, P.D., "Analysis of Work Hardening and Recrystallisation During the Hot Working of Steel using a Statistically Based Internal Variable Model". Materials Science and Engineering. A339 (2003) pp. 1-9
 
 
Peter is a member of the Centre Executive Committee and the Research Management Committee