Contact Dr Joy Sumner
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754029
- Email: j.sumner@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Power Systems & Turbines
- Structures and Materials
- Surface Engineering
Background
Dr Joy Sumner gained her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the University of Cambridge. She matriculated in 2000 and spent the 2002/3 academic year at MIT in the USA as a member of the CMI exchange programme. She graduated after studying Physical Sciences (with a focus on materials science) in 2004. For her PhD, she assessed the use of several scanning probe microscopy techniques for the characterisation of semiconductors, also at the University of Cambridge. Since then she has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bath before taking up a research fellowship at Cranfield University to assess material degradation in the energy sector. At Cranfield she has been promoted to Reader in Energy Materials, to pursue her research in understanding and testing materials' corrosion performance. This has addressed high temperature oxidation and corrosion in a number of materials systems. Joy is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining as well as a chartered engineer. She is the Head of the Centre for Energy Engineering and engages with STEM outreach to schools.
Current activities
Dr Joy Sumner's work is related to the degradation mechanisms of materials used in components; most often in energy systems. Her main focus is the mechanisms of failure for steels and nickel based alloys in simulated real world environments. To achieve this, Joy is involved in several projects including recently the EPSRC-funded "Investigating Corrosion in Supercritical Fluids", the Innovate UK funded "Plastic Recycling Technology and Outputs: Enhancing Material Longevity and Product Quality for Commercialisation", the Knowledge Transfer Partnership with CorrosionRADAR Ltd, and several private industrial contracts. Her STEM outreach, "MATERIALS: MATERIals for Active Learning in Schools", is supported through the RAE's Ingenious scheme.
Her previous projects have included:
EPSRC funded Supergen PLE
EPSRC funded Flex-E-Plant
EU FP7 H2-IGCC
TSB funded CASET
TSB funded SAMULET
Clients
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Innovate UK
- Siemens Energy AG
- Engie SA
- Électricité de France SA
- GE Power
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
- Porvair PLC
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Varghese A, Arana‐Catania M, Mori S, Encinas‐Oropesa A & Sumner J. (2024). Causal discovery to understand hot corrosion. Materials and Corrosion
- Li T, Li X, Yang H, Zhou Y, Li X, .... (2024). Multifunctional Optimization Enabled by the Space Design of a Non-Toxic Fluoride Protective Layer for Dendrites-Free and Corrosion-Resistance Zinc Anodes. Materials Today Energy, 40
- Mori S, Sanusi T, Simms N & Sumner J. (2023). Fireside corrosion and deposition on heat exchangers in biomass combustion systems. Materials at High Temperatures, 40(1)
- Pidcock A, Mori S, Sumner J, Simms N, Nicholls J, .... (2023). High Temperature Corrosion of HVOF Coatings in Laboratory-Simulated Biomass Combustion Superheater Environments. High Temperature Corrosion of Materials, 99(1-2)
- Mori STEFANO, Pidcock ANDY, Sumner JOY, Simms NIGEL & Oakey JOHN. (2023). Fireside performance of different coatings in biomass power plant. Materials at High Temperatures, 40(4)
- Norman BPHOEBE, Al Baroudi HISHAM, Potter ANDREW, Mori STEFANO, Simms NIGEL, .... (2023). Corrosion of Potential First Stage Blade Materials in Simulated Supercritical CO 2. Materials at High Temperatures, 40(4)
- Potter ANDREW, Sumner JOY & Simms NIGEL. (2023). Further investigations into alloy induced acidic fluxing. Materials at High Temperatures, 40(4)
- Abubakar SA, Mori S & Sumner J. (2023). Effect of Dissolved CO2 on the Interaction of Stress and Corrosion for Pipeline Carbon Steels in Simulated Marine Environments. Metals, 13(7)
- Gong Y, Gill SPA, Yan S, Higginson R, Sumner J, .... (2023). Assessment of corrosive attack of Fe9Cr1Mo alloys in pressurised CO2 for prediction of breakaway oxidation. Corrosion Science, 222(September)
- Mori S, Mendil M, Wells J, Chapman N, Simms N, .... (2023). An approach to evaluating the impact of contaminants on flux deposition in gas turbines. Energy Systems, Available online 18 August 2023
- Catizane C, Jiang Y & Sumner J. (2023). Improving plastic pyrolysis oil quality via an electrochemical process for polymer recycling: a review. Energy Advances, 3(2)
- Chapman N, Gray S, Sumner J & Nicholls J. (2022). Mechanical Stress Effects on 550 °C Hot Corrosion Propagation Rates in Precipitation Hardened Ni-Base Superalloys: CMSX-4, CM247LC DS and IN6203DS. Oxidation of Metals, 97(3-4)
- Mori S, Pidcock A, Sumner J, Simms N & Oakey J. (2022). Fireside Corrosion of Heat Exchanger Materials for Advanced Solid Fuel Fired Power Plants. Oxidation of Metals, 97(3-4)
- Mori S, Sumner J, Bouvet J & Simms NJ. (2022). Fireside and steamside performance in biomass power plant. Materials at High Temperatures, 39(2)
- Potter A, Sumner J & Simms N. (2022). The effects of water vapour on the hot corrosion of gas turbine blade materials at 700 °C. Materials at High Temperatures, 39(3)
- Sanusi T, Sumner J & Simms NJ. (2022). A comparative evaluation of waste wood and herbaceous biomass fireside corrosion behaviours. Fuel, 324(September)
- Abubakar SA, Mori S & Sumner J. (2022). A Review of Factors Affecting SCC Initiation and Propagation in Pipeline Carbon Steels. Metals, 12(8)
- Abubakar M, Omavuezi O & Sumner J. (2022). (Digital Presentation) Offshore Gas Turbines. ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2022-01(16)
- Ward D, Collu M & Sumner J. (2021). A Comparison of the Turbine Tower Damping Effects of a Series of Back Twisted Active Pitch-to-Stall Blades for a Spar and a Semi-Submersible FOWT. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 143(6)
- Chapman N, Gray S, Sumner J & Nicholls J. (2021). Stress Corrosion Testing of CMSX-4, CM247LC DS and IN6203DS Ni-Base Superalloys. Oxidation of Metals, 95(1-2)
- Chapman N, Gray S, Sumner J & Nicholls J. (2020). Surface Roughness Evolution to Identify Incubation Time for Hot Corrosion of Nickel-Base Superalloys: CMSX-4, CM247LC DS and IN6203DS at 550 °C. Oxidation of Metals, 94(5-6)
- Brooking L, Gray S, Dawson K, Nicholls JR, Simms NJ, .... (2020). Analysis of combined static load and low temperature hot corrosion induced cracking in CMSX-4 at 550°C. Corrosion Science, 163
- Ward D, Collu M & Sumner J. (2020). Analysis of the Effect of a Series of Back Twist Blade Configurations for an Active Pitch-To-Stall Floating Offshore Wind Turbine. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 142(6)
- Ward D, Collu M & Sumner J. (2019). Reducing Tower Fatigue through Blade Back Twist and Active Pitch-to-Stall Control Strategy for a Semi-Submersible Floating Offshore Wind Turbine. Energies, 12(10)
- Potter A, Sumner J & Simms NJ. (2018). The role of superalloy precipitates on the early stages of oxidation and type II hot corrosion. Materials at High Temperatures, 35(1-3)
- Brooking L, Gray S, Sumner J, Nicholls JR, Marchant G, .... (2018). Effect of stress state and simultaneous hot corrosion on the crack propagation and fatigue life of single crystal superalloy CMSX-4. International Journal of Fatigue, 116
- Chapman N, Brooking L, Sumner J, Gray S & Nicholls J. (2018). Corrosion fatigue testing: the combined effect of stress and high temperature corrosion. Materials at High Temperatures, 35(1-3)
- Brooking L, Gray S, Sumner J, Nicholls JR & Simms NJ. (2018). Interaction of hot corrosion fatigue and load dwell periods on a nickel-base single crystal superalloy. International Journal of Fatigue, 117
- Bouvet J, Sumner J & Simms NJ. (2018). Impacts of temperature and surface finish upon steam oxidation of austenitic steel TP347HFG. Materials at High Temperatures, 35(1-3)
- Brooking L, Sumner J, Gray S & Simms NJ. (2018). Stress corrosion of Ni-based superalloys. Materials at High Temperatures, 35(1-3)
- Sumner J, Potter A, Simms NJ & Oakey JE. (2017). Modeling gas turbine materials’ hot corrosion degradation in combustion environments from H2‐rich syngas. Materials and Corrosion, 68(2)
- Haight H, Potter A, Sumner J & Gray S. (2015). New Technique to Map Hot Corrosion Damage: CMSX-4 Example. Oxidation of Metals, 84(5-6)
- Sumner J, Potter A, Simms NJ & Oakey JE. (2015). Hot corrosion resistance of gas turbine materials in combusted syngas environments. Materials at High Temperatures, 32(1-2)
- Sumner J, Encinas‐Oropesa A, Simms NJ & Nicholls JR. (2014). Type
II hot corrosion: Behavior ofCMSX ‐4 andIN 738LC as a function of corrosion environment. Materials and Corrosion, 65(2) - Seraffon M, Simms NJ, Sumner J & Nicholls JR. (2014). Oxidation Behaviour of NiCrAl and NiCoCrAl Bond Coatings Under Industrial Gas Turbine Conditions. Oxidation of Metals, 81(1-2)
- Cruchley S, Sun JF, Taylor MP, Evans HE, Bowen P, .... (2014). Cautionary note on use of focused ion beam sectioning as technique for characterising oxidation damage in Ni based superalloys. Materials at High Temperatures, 31(1)
- Sumner J, Encinas-Oropesa A, Simms NJ & Nicholls JR. (2013). Type II Hot Corrosion: Kinetics Studies of CMSX-4. Oxidation of Metals, 80(5-6)
- Sumner J, Encinas-Oropesa A, Simms NJ & Oakey JE. (2013). High temperature oxidation and corrosion of gas turbine materials in burner rig exposures. Materials Science and Technology, 29(7)
- Simms NJ, Sumner J, Hussain T & Oakey JE. (2013). Fireside issues in advanced power generation systems. Materials Science and Technology, 29(7)
- Sumner J, Encinas-Oropesa A, Simms NJ & Oakey JE. (2011). High temperature oxidation and corrosion of gas turbine component materials in burner rig exposures. Materials at High Temperatures, 28(4)
- Seraffon M, Simms NJ, Sumner J & Nicholls JR. (2011). The development of new bond coat compositions for thermal barrier coating systems operating under industrial gas turbine conditions. Surface and Coatings Technology, 206(7)
- Seraffon M, Simms NJ, Nicholls JR, Sumner J & Nunn J. (2011). Performance of thermal barrier coatings in industrial gas turbine conditions. Materials at High Temperatures, 28(4)
- Oliver RA, Bennett SE, Sumner J, Kappers MJ & Humphreys CJ. (2010). Scanning capacitance microscopy studies of GaN grown by epitaxial layer overgrowth. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 209(1)
- Sumner J, Oliver RA, Kappers MJ & Humphreys CJ. (2009). Scanning capacitance microscopy studies of unintentional doping in epitaxial lateral overgrowth GaN. Journal of Applied Physics, 106(10)
- Oliver RA, Sumner J, Kappers MJ & Humphreys CJ. (2009). Morphological changes of InGaN epilayers during annealing assessed by spectral analysis of atomic force microscopy images. Journal of Applied Physics, 106(5)
- Das Bakshi S, Sumner J, Kappers MJ & Oliver RA. (2009). The influence of coalescence time on unintentional doping in GaN/sapphire. Journal of Crystal Growth, 311(2)
- Sumner J, Oliver RA, Kappers MJ & Humphreys CJ. (2008). Assessment of the performance of scanning capacitance microscopy for n-type gallium nitride. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena, 26(2)
- Sumner J, Oliver RA, Kappers MJ & Humphreys CJ. (2007). Practical issues in carrier‐contrast imaging of GaN structures. physica status solidi c, 4(7)
- Fraser IS, Oliver RA, Sumner J, McAleese C, Kappers MJ, .... (2007). Compositional contrast in AlxGa1−xN/GaN heterostructures using scanning spreading resistance microscopy. Applied Surface Science, 253(8)
- Oliver RA, Kappers MJ, Sumner J, Datta R & Humphreys CJ. (2006). Highlighting threading dislocations in MOVPE-grown GaN using an in situ treatment with SiH4 and NH3. Journal of Crystal Growth, 289(2)
- Oliver R, Kappers MJ, Sumner J, Datta R & Humphreys CJ. (2005). SiH4 exposure of GaN surfaces: A useful tool for highlighting dislocations. MRS Proceedings, 892(1)
- Mouganie T, Moram MA, Sumner J, Glowacki BA, Schoofs B, .... (2005). Chemical and Physical Analysis of Acetate-Oxide Sol-Gel Processing Routes for the Y-Ba-Cu-O System. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 36(1)
Conference Papers
- Mori S, Sumner J, Pidcock A, Nicholls JR & Simms NJ. (2021). Steam Oxidation Responses of Candidate Materials for a Novel Steam Transfer Pipe
- Simms NJ, Ekpe B, Riccio C, Mori S, Sumner J, .... (2019). Approaches to Modeling Fireside Corrosion of Superheater/Reheater Tubes in Coal and Biomass Fired Combustion Power Plants
- Abbas M, Simms N, Syed A, Malik OA & Sumner J. (2019). Evaluation of the effects of highly saline and warm seawaters on corrosivity of marine assets
- Kulkarni AA, Senga M, Kiliani SW, Summer J & Simms NJ. (2019). Component Level Hot Corrosion and Deposit Modeling for Large Gas Turbines
- Sumner J, Simms NJ & Kulkarni A. (2019). Modelling Hot Corrosion Damage in Industrial Gas Turbines
- Sanusi T, Sumner J & Simms NJ. (2019). Investigation of the combustion environment generated from combined biomass fuel categories
- Simms N, Mori S, Kilgallon P, Sumner J, Pidcock A, .... (2018). Fireside corrosion on superheater / reheater tubes for advanced ultra supercritical power systems
- Sumner J, Simms NJ, Stamm W & Oakey JE. (2017). Simulating novel gas turbine conditions for materials assessment: Cascade design and operation
- Sumner J, Aksoul Q, Delgado J, Potter A & Gray S. (2017). Impact of Deposit Recoat Cycle Length on Hot Corrosion of CMSX-4
- Wells J, Chapman N, Sumner J & Walker P. (2017). The Use of APS Thermal Barrier Coatings in Corrosive Environments
- Sumner J, Simms N, Shin A & Pearson J. (2017). Kinetics of Duplex Oxide Growth on 9Cr Steels Exposed in CO2: Application of Dimensional Metrology
- Potter A, Sumner J, Simms NJ & Oakey JE. (2015). Type II hot corrosion of environmentally resistant coatings in the next generation of industrial gas turbines
- Sumner J, Seraffon M, Simms NJ, Encinas-Oropesa A & Nicholls JR. (2012). Lifetime prediction for gas turbine materials in power generation
- Vichitrananda V, Simms N & Sumner J. (2012). Subsea Processing in Remote Marginal Fields
- Oliver RA, Bakshi SD, Sumner J & Kappers MJ. (2009). Scanning capacitance microscopy as a tool for the assessment of unintentional doping in GaN
- Sumner J, Bakshi SD, Oliver RA, Kappers MJ & Humphreys CJ. (2008). Unintentional doping in GaN assessed by scanning capacitance microscopy
- Sumner J, Oliver RA, Kappers MJ & Humphreys CJ. (2008). Assessment of scanning spreading resistance microscopy for application to n‐type GaN
- Oliver RA, Kappers MJ, McAleese C, Datta R, Sumner J, .... (2008). The origin and reduction of dislocations in Gallium Nitride
Books
- Simms NJ & Sumner J. (2023). High temperature corrosion In Aliabadi MHF & Soboyejo WO (eds), Comprehensive Structural Integrity (5). Elsevier.
- Simms NJ & Sumner J. (2023). High Temperature Corrosion In Comprehensive Structural Integrity. Elsevier.
- Simms NJ & Sumner J. (2023). High Temperature Corrosion In Comprehensive Structural Integrity. Elsevier.
- Sumner J, Oliver RA, Kappers MJ & Humphreys CJ. (2008). Calibration and Applications of Scanning Capacitance Microscopy: n-Type GaN In Cullis AG & Midgley PA (eds), Springer Proceedings in Physics (120). Springer Netherlands.
