Dr Gwénaëlle Proust
Position
Joint Lecturer
Electron Microscope Unit
School of Civil Engineering
School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering
Contact
Email:
Ph: + 61 2 9036 9491
Fax: + 61 2 9351 7682
Qualifications
Diplôme d’ingénieur (eq.BS), 1999, ISITEM (France); Master, 2002, Drexel University (USA); Ph.D., 2005, Drexel University (USA)
Background
- 2008 – Present: Lecturer at the EMU, School of Civil Engineering and AMME, University of Sydney
- 2005 – 2007: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
Research interests
- Study and modeling of elastic and plastic deformation of metals with an emphasis on hexagonal metals and alloys.
- Application of material characterization techniques to studying microstructure-property relationships with an emphasis on electron backscattered diffraction.
Publications
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- R.J. McCabe, G. Proust, E.K. Cerreta and A. Misra, “Quantitative analysis of deformation twinning in zirconium”, International Journal of Plasticity, in press (2008).
- G. Proust, C.N. Tomé and G.C. Kaschnew, “A composite-grain approach to model the role of twinning in the plastic deformation of HCP aggregates”, Acta Materialia 55, 2137-2148 (2007).
- G. Proust and S.R. Kalidindi, “Procedures for construction of anisotropic elastic-plastic property closures for face-centered cubic polycrystals using first order bounding relations”, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 54, 1744-1762 (2006).
- X. Wu, G. Proust, M. Knezevic and S.R. Kalidindi, “Elastic-plastic property closures for hexagonal close-packed polycrystalline metals using first-order bounding theories”, Acta Materialia 55, 2729-2737 (2007).
- J.R. Houskamp, G. Proust and S.R. Kalidindi, “Integration of microstructure sensitive design with finite element methods: elastic-plastic case studies in fcc polycrystals”, International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering 5, 261-272 (2007)