MICHAEL  A  HODGSON

Senior Lecturer

BE (Met & Mat), PhD Auckland


Room:             1.803

Ext.                  88218 or direct dial +(64 9)923-8218

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Present Position

Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland. (2007 -present).
Deputy Head: Academic - Chemical and Materials Engineering

 

Previous Positions

Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland. (1995-2006) Computer and Network Technical Support .

Assistant Lecturer, Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland ,1993-1994

 

Professional Affiliations

Member of the Engineering Materials Group of IPENZ
Member of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST)

 

Teaching Activities

X-Ray techniques, materials and metallurgy , electrical engineering materials, mechanics

 

Research Expertise

Mechanical behaviour, steels, fracture, high temperature mechanical behaviour, casting, mechanical testing, scanning electon and optical microsopy.

 

Present Research

High temperature fracture and ductility of continuously-cast steels

Recrystallization behaviour and thermomechanical behaviour

Properties of magnesium alloys

Electronic materials and coatings

 

PUBLICATIONS:

About 12 Papers in International journals.


 

Papers

J. LEE, W. GAO AND M HODGSON, 'Surface Study Of Ti3Al And TiAl By X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy', International Journal Of Modern Physics B, Vol 17, No. 8&9, 2003, 1711-1716.

K. ZHANG, Z. LI, M. HODGSON AND W. GAO, ‘Molten Salt Vapour Corrosion of Ti3Al and TiAl Based Intermetallics’, Journal of High Temperature Materials and Processes, Vol 21 issue 3, 2002, 167-175

J. LEE, W. GAO AND M HODGSON, 'Surface Study of Ti3Al and TiAl by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy', Proceedings of the 3rd Advanced Materials Development and Performance  Conference (AMDP), Daegu, Korea, CD-ROM, 2002

HODGSON, M.A AND FERGUSON, W.G, ‘Investigation of the Recrystallization of Lead’ 2nd Intl. Conf.

on Advanced Materials Development and Performance (AMDP'99), Tokushima, Japan, ISBN 4-9980810-20, pp264-267, 1999

M.A. HODGSON, PUI MING KWOK AND W.G. FERGUSON, ‘The Recrystallization Behaviour Of Lead In Lead–Rubber Bearing’”, Proceedings of the IPENZ Technical Conference, ISSN 0111-9532, University of Auckland, 0-5, 1999

HODGSON, M.A. AND FERGUSON, W.G, ‘High Temperature Ductility and Fracture of Carbon Steels’ Structural Integrity and Fracture, Melbourne Australia, pp 223-229, 1998

HODGSON, M.A. AND FERGUSON, W.G, ‘Hot Ductility Behaviour Of Carbon Steels Through The Two-Phase (Ferrite And Austenite) Region’ THERMEC ‘97, International Conference on Thermochemical Processing of Steels and other Materials, University of Wollongong, Australia, TMS publication: ISBN Number 0-87339-377-5, pp531-537, 1997

M.A. HODGSON AND W.G. FERGUSON, 'Hot Ductility Minimum in C-Mn Steels.' ACEM-13 Microscopy-Bridging the Sciences, Gold Coast, Australia, 1994

M.A. HODGSON AND W.G. FERGUSON, 'Hot Ductility of Continuously-Cast C-Mn Steels.' 5th New Zealand Materials Symposium, Gracefield Research Centre, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 1992

M.A HODGSON AND W.G. FERGUSON, 'Mechanical Performance of Aluminium and Magnesium Alloys', NZ Metals Industry Conference, Rotorua, 2002

LEE, J., GAO, W., LI, Z. AND HODGSON, M.  Corrosion Behaviour of Ti-Al Intermetallics.  Proceedings 9th Annual New Zealand Engineering & Technology Postgraduate Conf., 202-205, 2002.

FERGUSON, W.G., HODGSON, M.A. AND KWOK, P.M. 'Recrystallization of lead' Proceedings of New Zealand and Korea Symposium in Engineering Materials ’99, U. of Waikato, NZ, 1999

HODGSON, M.A. AND FERGUSON, W.G. ‘Characterisation of High Temperature Fracture of Steel’, Microscopy ‘97 Conference. Auckland, February, 1997

M.A. HODGSON AND W.G. FERGUSON, 'Influence of a Two Phase Structure on the Ductility of Carbon Steels.' Proc. Inaugural New Zealand Postgraduate Conf. for Eng. and Technology. Students. p153-158, 1994


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