Dr Tomasz Dudziak

Research Fellow in Energy
Location: Building 56b, Cranfield campus
E: t.dudziak@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 752509
Environmental Science and Technology

Current activities

Dr Tomasz Dudziak is currently working on four projects:

Supergen Phase 2 (Plat Lifetime Extension (PLE)
ASPECT Project
TiAl Surface treated
TSB – Corrosion modelling

Clients

Clients are related to the InnovaTiAl project (Framework 6^th)

DLR (the national aerospace centre in Germany)
Sheffield Hallam University
University of Sheffield
Linköping University, Sweden
The KTH group involved in INNOVATIAL, a division of Space and Plasma Physics, within the School of Electric Engineering at KTH, Sweden
MFA, the research institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
University of Leoben
Surface Engineering Laboratory in Madrid University
Hauzer Techno Coating BV, The Netherlands
IonBond (Rotherham PVD Coatings Centre)
Aero-coat
Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF), Italy

Current clients:

Rolls – Royce
Alstom
E.ON
Siemens

Background

During his Master's degree Dr Dudziak was involved in computing modelling of NiAl-Pt modified alloy using Generalised Darkens Method in argon atmosphere (interdiffusion modelling). He graduated from Krakow University of Science and Technology in 2005. Tomasz's MSc was titled 'Interdiffusion Platinum, Rhenium, Rhodium in b-NiAl'. In 2003-2004 he was invited to join Compiegne University of Technology under an Erasmus - Socrates Programme. There he successfully completed the research work, submitting two reports:

1) Studies of chromium oxide scale using optical microscope, scanning electron microscopy, and acoustic emission
2) Mechanical and diffusional aspects of high temperature oxidation of the low carbon steel under water vapour.

As a PhD student Dr Dudziak was involved in a European Union project, InnovaTiAl. The aim of this project is to develop a new type of coating for high temperature application (above 600oC). TiAl alloys have been selected as a new type of structural material. As a participant in InnovaTiAl his key duties are preparing experiments in laboratory (coating preparation, oxidation, sulphidation, hot corrosion, diffusion annealing), writing reports, attending meetings throughout the European Union, and preparing an analysis on XRD (X-Ray Diffraction Analyzer, EDS Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, SEM – Scanning Electron Microscope).

Selected publications

T. Dudziak, P.K Datta, P. Mayrhofer, F.Rovere, 'High Temperature Resistance of CrAlYN (Cr0.45Al0.53Y0.02N) coating coated Ti45Al8Nb after 500 hours Oxidation at Temperature Range 750 - 950 ^oC', – February 2011 Oxidation of Metals
A. Busiakiewicz, A. Huczko, T. Dudziak, M. Puchalski, W. Kozłowski, M. Cichomski, S. Cudziło, Z. Klusek, W. Olejniczak, 'Defects of SiC nanowires studied by STM and STS', Applied Surface Science
T. Dudziak, H.L. Du, P.K. Datta, A. Wilson, I.M. Ross, M. Moser, Reinhold Braun, 'Sulphidation/oxidation behaviour of TiAlCr and Al₂Au coated Ti45Al8Nb alloy at 750 ^oC', Corrosion Science 51 (2009) 1189 –1196

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