Publications
Further links to publications can be found via: google scholar; Scopus; ORCID.
The Spiral and ArXiv links below often provide free (author's versions) of each manuscript.
Pre-prints (under review)
Tianbi Zhang, Lukas Berners, Jakub Holzer, T. Ben Britton "Comparison of Kikuchi Diffraction Geometries in Scanning Electron Microscope" https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13018
Tianhong Gu, Finn Giuliani and Ben Britton "Accessing slip activity in high purity tin with electron backscatter diffraction and measurement of slip strength" https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02681
Tianhong Gu, Chris Gourlay and Ben Britton "The role of lengthscale in the creep of Sn-3Ag-0.5 Cu solder microstructures" https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08266
Pre-prints (in Limbo)
These preprints are usually orphaned, either because we have moved on, something wasn't quite right, or the review process was too annoying to deal with.
Vivian Tong, Euan Wielewski, Ben Britton "Characterisation of slip and twinning in high rate deformed zirconium with electron backscatter diffraction" https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00236
Vivian Tong, Euan Wielewski, and Ben Britton "Understanding plasticity in zirconium using in-situ measurement of lattice rotations" https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04187
J L R Hickey, S Rouland & T B Britton - Heterogeneous local plastic deformation revealed using in-situ tensile testing and high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02017
In Press
118. Graeme Francolini and Ben Britton "Microstructural characterization to reveal evidence of shock deformation in a Campo del Cielo meteorite fragment" https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16901 and accepted for publication in Materials Characterization.
2025
117. Max Emmanuel, Zhuoqi Lucas Li, Harry Heptinstall, Oriol Gavalda-Diaz, Rachid M'saoubi, Tomas Persson, Susanne Norgren, Thomas Benjamin Britton, Finn Giuliani, Katharina Marquardt "Effect of chromium doping on the grain boundary character of WC-Co" International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials (2025) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263436824004025
116. Ruth M Birch, T. Ben Britton, and Warren Poole "Improving parent-austenite twinned grain reconstruction using electron backscatter diffraction in low carbon austenite" https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16788 and Scripta Materialia (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2024.116459.
2024
115. Tianhong Gu, Yilin Xu, Christopher M Gourlay, Fionn P E Dunne, and T Ben Britton "Understanding the deformation creep and role of intermetallic compound-microstructure in Sn-Ag-Cu solders" in Materials Science and Engineering A (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2024.147429
113. Ning Fang, Yang Liu, Finn Giuliani, Ben Britton "Characterisation of the strain rate sensitivity of basal, prismatic and pyramidal slip in Zircaloy-4 using micropillar compression" https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09600 and published in Materials Science and Engineering A (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2024.146802
114. Ruth Birch and Ben Britton "Improved understanding of the growth of blocky alpha in welded Zircaloy-4" Acta Materialia (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120151 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17093
112. Ning Fang, Ziyao Zhou, Ben Britton "The performance of different etchants on the microstructure and carbides of Ni600 & Ni625" Metals (2024) https://doi.org/10.3390/met14010091
111.Tianbi Zhang and Ben Britton "A simple, static and stage mounted direct electron detector based electron backscatter diffraction system" Micron (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2023.103582 & preprint available https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14888
110. Tianbi Zhang and Ben Britton "Multi-exposure diffraction pattern fusion applied to enable wider-angle transmission Kikuchi diffraction with direct electron detectors" Ultramicroscopy (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2023.113902 & preprint available https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14167
2023
109. Sarah Hiew Sze Kei, Willem Maarten van Haaften, Ben Britton, Stella Pedrazzini “Review of Factors Contributing to Sulfide Stress Cracking in TMCP Seamless Pipeline Steels” – invited review in Advanced Engineering Materials (2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300406
108. S. Pedrazzini, M. E. Pek, A. K. Ackerman, H. Ali, H. Ghadbeigi, K. Mumtaz, T. Dessolier, T.B. Britton, P. Bajaj, E. Jägle, B. Gault, A. J. London, E. Galindo-Nava "Influence of powder-bed temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V produced by selective laser melting" Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11661-023-07070-4 and open access ArXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08288
107. Ruth M. Birch, James O. Douglas, T. Ben Britton "Characterization of local deformation around hydrides in Zircaloy-4 using conventional and high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction" https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08311 and Materials Characterization (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2023.112988
106. Baptiste Gault, Heena Khanchandani, T.S. Prithiv, Stoichko Antonov, T. Ben Britton "Transmission Kikuchi diffraction mapping induces structural damage in atom probe specimens" https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06362 and Microscopy and Microanalysis (2023) https://doi.org/10.1093/micmic/ozad029
2022
106. Yilun Xu, Tianhong Gu, Jingwei Xian, Finn Giuliani, T Ben Britton, Christopher M Gourlay, Fionn PE Dunne "Multi-scale plasticity homogenization of Sn–3Ag-0.5Cu: From β-Sn micropillars to polycrystals with intermetallics" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2022.143876
105. Ning Fang, Ruth Birch, and T. Ben Britton "Optimizing broad ion beam polishing of zircaloy-4 for electron backscatter diffraction analysis" https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02501 and published in Micron (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2022.103268
104. Chen Huang, Pinelopi Kyvelou, Ruizhi Zhang, T. Ben Britton and Leroy Gardner "Mechanical Testing and Microstructural Analysis of Wire Arc Additively Manufactured Steels" Materials and Design (2022) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4004790
103. Tea-Sung Jun, Ayan Bhowmik, Xavier Maeder, Giorgio Sernicol, Tommaso Giovannini, Igor Dolbnya, Johann Michler, Finn Giuliani, Ben Britton "In-situ diffraction based observations of slip near phase boundaries in titanium through micropillar compression" Materials Characterisation (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111695
102. Ruth Birch, Thomas Benjamin Britton "Effective structural unit analysis in hexagonal close packed alloys - reconstruction of prior beta microstructures & crystal orientation post processing analysis" Journal of Applied Crystallography (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10648 & https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576721011584
2021
101. Yang Liu, Suki Adande, T. Ben Britton, Fionn P.E. Dunne "Cold dwell fatigue analyses integrating crystal-level strain rate sensitivity and microstructural heterogeneity" International Journal of Fatigue (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2021.106398
100. Ben Britton, Jennifer Carter, Matthew Korey, Liz Roccoforte "Material Goals Towards Equity Along the STEM and LGBTQIA+ Spectra" JOM (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04829-1
99. Ruizhi Zhang, Craig Buchanan, Ville-Pekka Matilainen, Dafni Daskalaki-Mountanou, T. Ben Britton, Heidi Piili, Antti Salminen, Leroy Gardner "Mechanical properties and microstructure of additively manufactured stainless steel with laser welded joints" Journal of Materials and Design https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109921
98. Thibaut Dessolier, Thomas McAuliffe, Wouter J. Hamer, Chrétien G.M. Hermse, T. Ben Britton "Effect of high temperature service on the complex through-wall microstructure of centrifugally cast HP40 reformer tube" https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07429 and data https://zenodo.org/record/4001600#.X0d7P8hKiMo, Materials Characterisation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111070
97. Max Emmanuel, Oriol Gavalda-Diaz, Giorgio Sernicola, Rachid M'saoubi, Tomas Persson, Susanne Norgren, Katharina Marquardt, T. Ben Britton, Finn Giuliani "Fracture Energy Measurement of Prismatic Plane and Σ2 Boundary in Cemented Carbide" https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04638-6
96. Zhuocheng Xu, Ben Britton and Yi Guo "Casting voids in nickel superalloy and the mechanical behaviour under room temperature tensile deformation" https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04042 and Materials Science and Engineering A (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.140800
95. Chris Bilsland, Andrew Barrow, T. Ben Britton "Correlative statistical microstructural assessment of precipitates and their distribution, with simultaneous electron backscatter diffraction and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy"https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03279 and Materials Characterisation (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111071
94. Yi Guo, Cui Zong, Ben Britton "The development of local plasticity around void during tensile deformation" https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11890 and Materials Science and Engineering A (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.141227
93. Philip Ball, T. Benjamin Britton, Erin Hengel, Philip Moriarty, Rachel A. Oliver, Gina Rippon, Angela Saini, and Jessica Wade "Gender issues in fundamental physics: Strumia's bibliometric analysis fails to account for key confounders and confuses correlation with causation" https://psyarxiv.com/2hfny/ and Quantitative Science Studies (2021) https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00117
92. Isabelle Mouton, Yanhong Chang, Poulami Chakraborty, Siyang Wang, Leigh T. Stephenson, T. Ben Britton, Baptiste Gault "Hydride growth mechanism in Zircaloy-4: investigation of the partitioning of alloying elements" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08073 and Materialia (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2021.101006
91. Thomas P McAuliffe, Ioannis Bantounas, Lucy R Reynolds, Alex Foden, Mark Hardy, T Ben Britton, David Dye "Quantitative precipitate classification and grain boundary property control in Co/Ni-base superalloys" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00948 and Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (2021) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11661-021-06156-1
90. Vivian Tong, Thomas Benjamin Britton "TrueEBSD: correcting spatial distortions in electron backscatter diffraction maps" https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00347 and Ultramicroscopy (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.113130
2020
89. Yilun Xu, Tianhong Gu, Jingwei Xian, Finn Giuliani, T. Ben Britton, Christopher M. Gourlay, and Fionn P.E. Dunne "Intermetallic size and morphology effects on creep rate of Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu solder" International Journal of Plasticity (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2020.102904
88. Thomas P McAuliffe, David Dye, T Ben Britton "Spherical-angular dark field imaging and sensitive microstructural phase clustering with unsupervised machine learning" https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10581 and Ultramicroscopy (2020)
87. Siyang Wang, Finn Giuliani, T. Ben Britton "Slip-hydride interactions in Zircaloy-4: Multiscale mechanical testing and characterisation" https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13610 and Acta Materialia (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.09.038
86. Tianhong Gu, Vivian Tong, Christopher M Gourlay, T Ben Britton "In-situ study of creep in Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu solder" Acta Materialia (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.013 and preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05904
85. Pinelopi Kyvelou, Harry Slack, Dafni Daskalaki Mountanou, Ahmer M Wadee, T. Ben Britton, Craig Buchanan and Leroy Gardner "Mechanical and microstructural testing of wire and arc additively manufactured sheet material" Materials & Design (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2020.108675
84. Catriona McGilvery, Jun Jiang, Nick Routhwaite, Rod Williams, Finn Giuliani, Benjamin Britton "Characterisation of Carbonaceous Deposits on Diesl Injector Nozzles" Fuel (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117629
83. Ayan Bhowmik, Junyi Lee, Ming Koh, Tea-Sung Jun, Giorgio Sernicola, Ben Britton, Catherine Rae, Daniel Balint, Finn Giuliani "Investigating spatio-temporal deformation in single crystal Ni-based superalloys using in-situ diffraction experiments and modelling" Materialia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2020.100635 (2020)
82. T.P. McAuliffe, A. Foden, C. Bilsland, D. Daskalaki-Mountanou, D. Dye, T.B. Britton "Advancing characterisation with statistics from correlative electron diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy, in the scanning electron microscope" https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04084 and Ultramicroscopy (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.112944
81. Tianhong Gu, Christopher M. Gourlay, T. Ben Britton "In-situ electron backscatter diffraction of thermal cycling in a single grain Cu/Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu/Cu solder joint" Scripta Materialia (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.09.003 and preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00401
2019
80. Yi Guo, David Collins, Edmund Tarleton, Felix Hofmann, Angus Wilkinson, Ben Britton "Dislocation density distribution at slip band-grain boundary intersections" Acta Materialia (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.10.031 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00674
79. Ralf Hielscher, Felix Bartel, and T Ben Britton "Gazing at crystal balls - Electron backscatter diffraction indexing and cross correlation on a sphere" Ultramicroscopy (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2019.112836 and preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03211
78. Alexander Foden, David Collins, Angus Wilkinson, Thomas Benjamin Britton "Indexing Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns with a Refined Template Matching Approach" Ultramicroscopy (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2019.112845 and PrePrint https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11313
77. Siyang Wang, Szilvia Kalácska, Xavier Maeder, Johann Michler, Finn Giuliani, T. Ben Britton "The effect of δ-hydride on the micromechanical deformation of Zircaloy-4 studied by in situ high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction" Scripta Materialia (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.08.006 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11558
76. David Wallis Lars N. Hansen T. Ben Britton Angus J. Wilkinson "High-angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction as a new tool for mapping lattice distortion in geological minerals" https://eartharxiv.org/mbwf6/ and https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08393, and https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017867 Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (2019)
75. Daniel S. Gianola, T. Ben Britton, Stefan Zaefferer "New techniques for imaging and identifying defects in electron microscopy" https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06909 and https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2019.125
74. Isabelle Mouton, Andrew J. Breen, Siyang Wang, Yanhong Chang, Agnieszka Szczepaniak, Paraskevas Kontis, Leigh T. Stephenson, Dierk Raabe, M. Herbig, T. Ben Britton, Baptiste Gault "Quantification challenges for atom probe tomography of hydrogen and deuterium in Zircaloy-4" Microscopy and Microanalysis (2019) https://doi.org/10.1017/S143192761801615X and https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03556
73. Siyang Wang, Finn Giuliani, and Ben Britton "Microstructure and formation mechanisms of δ-hydrides in variable grain size Zircaloy-4 studied by electron backscatter diffraction" Acta Materialia (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.02.042 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12442
72. Aimo Winkelmann, T. Ben Britton, and Gert Nolze "Constraints on the Effective Electron Energy Spectrum in Backscatter Kikuchi Diffraction" Physical Review B (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09525 and https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.064115
71. Tea-Sung Jun, Xavier Maeder, Ayan Bhowmik, Gaylord Guillonneau, Johann Michler, Finn Giuliani, T. Ben Britton "The role of β-titanium ligaments in the deformation of dual phase titanium alloys" Materials Science and Engineering A (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07250 and https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.01.032
70. Siyang Wang, Finn Giuliani, and Ben Britton "Variable temperature micropillar compression to reveal <a> basal slip properties of Zircaloy-4" Scripta Materialia (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.12.014
69. Vivian S Tong, Alexander J Knowles, David Dye, T Ben Britton "Rapid Electron Backscatter Diffraction Mapping: Painting by Numbers" https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07283 and Materials Characterization (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2018.11.014
68. Ruth Birch, Siyang Wang, Vivian Tong, Thomas Benjamin Britton "Short Communication: The effect of cooling rate and grain size on hydride formation in Zircaloy-4" https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11927 and Journal of Nuclear Materials https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.11.011
67. Tianhong Gu, Chis Gourlay, and T. Ben Britton "Evaluating Creep Deformation in Controlled Microstructures 7 of Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu Solder" Journal of Electronic Materials (2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-018-6744-1
2018
66. Thomas Benjamin Britton, Vivian Tong, Jim Hikey, Alex Foden, and Angus Wilkinson "AstroEBSD: exploring new space in pattern indexing with methods launched from an astronomical approach" Journal of Applied Crystallography (2018) https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576718010373 (& preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02602 )
65. Bo Lan, T. Ben Britton, Tea-Sung Jun, Weimin Gan, Michael Hofmann, Fionn P E Dunne, and Michael J.S. Lowe "Direct volumetric measurement of crystallographic texture using acoustic waves" (2018) Acta Materialia https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.08.037
64. Qinmeng Luan, Thomas Benjamin Britton and Tea-Sun Jun "Strain rate sensitivity in commercial pure titanium: the competition between slip and deformation twinning" Materials Science and Engineering A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2018.08.010
63. Mathew Niania, Renaud Podor, T. Ben Britton, Cheng Li, Samuel J. Cooper, Nikolai Svetkov, Stephen Skinner and John Kilner " In situ study of strontium segregation in La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3−δ in ambient atmospheres using high-temperature environmental scanning electron microscopy" Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2018) http://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA01341A
62. A.J. Breen, I. Mouton, W. Lu, S. Wang, A. Szczepaniak, P. Kontis, L.T. Stephenson, Y. Chang, A.K. da Silva, C. Liebscher, D. Raabe, T.B. Britton, M. Herbig, B. Gault "Atomic scale analysis of grain boundary deuteride growth front in Zircaloy-4" Scripta Materialia (2018) https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10286 and https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.06.044
61. Britton, T.B., Goran, D., Tong, V. "Space rocks and optimising scanning electron channelling contrast" Materials Characterization (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2018.06.001 (open access preprint also available https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08754)
60. Bhowmik, A., Lee, J., Britton, T.B., Liu, W., Jun, T.S., Sernicola, G., Karimpour, M., Balint, D., and Giuliani, F. "Deformation behaviour of [001] oriented MgO using combined in-situ nano-indentation and micro-Laue diffraction" Acta Materialia (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.12.002
2017
59. Wallis, D., Hansen, L., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. "Dislocation interactions in olivine revealed by HR-EBSD" Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014513
58. Jing, Y., Su, D., Yue, X., Britton, T.B. and Jiang, J. "The development of high strength brazing technique for Ti-6Al-4V using TiZrCuNi amorphous filler" Materials Characterisation (2017) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2017.07.039
57. Sernicola, G., Giovannini, T., Patel, P., Kermode, J.R., Balint, D.S., Britton, T.B., and Giuliani, F. "In situ stable crack growth at the micron scale" Nature Communications (2017) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00139-w
56. Knowles, A.J., Jun, T.S., Bhowmik, A., Jones, N.G., Britton, T.B., Giuliani, F., Stone, H.J., and Dye, D. "A new beta titanium alloy system reinforced with superlattice intermetallic precipitates" Scripta Mat (2017) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.06.038
55. Britton, T.B. Comment on "An Experimental Study on Evolution of Grain-Scale Stress/Strain and Geometrical Necessary Dislocations in Advanced TA15 Titanium Alloy during Uniaxial Tension Deformation" Advanced Engineering Materials (2017) https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adem.201700051
54. Tong, V., Joseph, S., Ackerman, A.K., Dye, D., and Britton, T.B. "Using transmission Kikuchi diffraction to characterise α variants in an α + β titanium alloy" Journal of Microscopy (2017) https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmi.12569
53. Ashton, P.J., Jun, T.S., Zhang, Z., Britton, T.B., Harte, A.M., Leen, S.B., and Dunne, F.P.E. "The effect of the beta phase on the micromechanical response of dual-phase titanium alloys" International Journal of Fatigue (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2017.03.020
52. Tong, V. and Britton, T.B. "Formation of very large ‘blocky alpha’ grains in Zircaloy-4" Acta Materialia (2017) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359645417301817
51. Jiang, J., Dunne, F.P.E., and Britton, T.B. "Toward predictive understanding of fatigue crack nucleation in Ni-based superalloys" JOM (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11837-017-2307-9
50. Guo, Y., Abdolvand, H., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J. Growth of {11-21} twins in titanium: A combined experimental and modelling investigation of the local state of deformation Acta Materialia (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.12.066
49. Guan, Y., Chen, B., Zou, J., Britton, B., Jiang, J. and Dunne, F.P.E. Crystal Plasticity Modelling and HR-DIC measurements of Slip Activation and Strain Localisation in Single and Oligo-crystal Ni Alloys under Fatigue International Journal of Plasticity (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2016.10.001
2016
48. Zhang, Z., Jun, T-S., Britton, T.B., and Dunne, F.P.E. Intrinsic anisotropy of strain rate sensitivity in single crystal alpha titanium Acta Materilia (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.07.044 #OpenAccess
47. Jiang, J., Yang, J., Zhang, T., Wang, Y., Dunne, F.P.E., and Britton, T.B. Microstructurally sensitive crack nucleation around inclusions in powder metallurgy nickel based superalloys Acta Materialia (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.07.023 #OpenAccess
46. Zhang, Z., Jun, T-S., Britton, T.B., and Dunne, F.P.E. Determination of Ti-6242 alpha and beta slip properties using micro-pillar test and computational crystal plasticity Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2016.06.007
45. Wallis, D., Hansen, L.N., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Geometrically necessary dislocation densities in olivine obtained using high-angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction Ultramicroscopy (2016) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2016.06.002
44. Zhang, T., Jiang, J., Britton, T. B., Shollock, B., Dunne, F.P.E. Crack nucleation using combined crystal plasticity modelling, HR-DIC and HR-EBSD in a superalloy containing non-metallic inclusions under fatigue Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2016) https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0792 and https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/32247
43. T.B. Britton, J. Jiang, Y. Guo, A. Vilalta-Clemente, D. Wallis, L. Hansen, A. Winkelmann, A.J. Wilkinson Tutorial: Crystal orientations and EBSD — Or which way is up? Materials Characterization (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2016.04.008 and https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/31250, Supplementary code can be found here
42. Bhowmik, A., Dolbnya, I.P., Britton, T.B., Jones, N.G., Sernicola, G., Walter, C., Gille,P., Dye, D., Clegg, W.J. and Giuliani, F. Using coupled micropillar compression and micro-Laue diffraction to investigate deformation mechanisms in a complex metallic alloy Al13Co4 Applied Physics Letters (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4944486
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/29969
41. Jun, T.S., Armstrong, D.E.J. and Britton, T.B. A nanoindentation investigation of local strain rate sensitivity in dual-phase Ti alloys Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.02.146
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/29534
40. Jun, T.S., Zhang, Z., Sernicola, G., Dunne, F.P.E., Britton, T.B. Local strain rate sensitivity of single α phase within a dual-phase Ti alloy Acta Materialia (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.01.057
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/29031
39. Jiang, J., Zhang, T., Dunne, F.P.E., and Britton T.B. Deformation compatibility in a single crystalline Ni superalloy Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0690
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/28345
38. Jun, T.S., Sernicola, G., Dunne, F.P.E., Britton, T.B. Local deformation mechanisms of two-phase Ti alloy Materials Science and Engineering A (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2015.09.016
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/26966
2015
37. Antusch, S., Armstrong, D.E.J., Britton, T.B. ,Commin, L., Gibson, J.S. K-L,, Greuner, H., Hoffmann, J., Knabl, W., Pintsuk, G., Rieth, M., Roberts, S.G., Weingaertner, T. Mechanical and microstructural investigations of tungsten and doped tungsten materials produced via powder injection moulding Nuclear Materials and Energy (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2015.04.002
36. Jiang, J, Yang, J., Zhang, T., Dunne, F.P.E. and Britton, T.B. On the mechanistic basis of fatigue crack nucleation in Ni superalloy containing inclusions using high resolution electron backscatter diffraction Acta Materialia (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.06.035
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/26580
35. Zhang, T., Jiang, J., Shollock, B.A., Britton, T.B., and Dunne, F.P.E. Slip localization and fatigue crack nucleation near a non-metallic inclusion in polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy Materials Science and Engineering A (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2015.06.070
34. Gong, J., Britton, T.B., Cuddihy, M., Dunne, F.P.E., and Wilkinson, A.J. <a> Prismatic, <a> Basal, and <c+a> Slip Strengths of Commercially Pure Zr by Micro-cantilever Tests Acta Materialia (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.06.020
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/31552
33. Guo, Y., Collins, D.M., Tarleton, E., Hoffman, F., Tischler, J., Liu, W., Xu, R., Wilkinson, A.J. and Britton, T.B. Measurements of Stress Fields near Grain Boundaries: Exploring Blocked Arrays of Dislocations Acta Materialia (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.05.041 #OpenAccess
32. Britton, T.B., Wilkinson, A.J., and Dunne, F.P.E. On the mechanistic basis of micromechanical deformation in hexagonal close packed metals Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2014.0881
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/23387
31. Tong, V., Jiang, J., Wilkinson, A.J. and Britton, T.B. The effect of pattern overlap on the accuracy of high resolution electron backscatter diffraction measurements Ultramicroscopy (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.04.019 #OpenAccess
30. Jiang, J., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Evolution of intragranular stresses and dislocation densities during cyclic deformation of polycrystalline copper Acta Materialia (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.04.031
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/23463
29. Weekes, H., Vorontsov, V., Dolbnya, I., Plummer, J., Giuliani, F, Britton, T.B., and Dye, D. In situ micropillar deformation of hydrides in Zircaloy-4 Acta Materialia (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.03.037
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/24044
28. Jiang, J., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. The orientation and strain dependence of dislocation structure evolution in monotonically deformed copper International Journal of Plasticity (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2015.02.005
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/25966
27. Xian, J.W., Belyakov, S.A., Britton, T.B. and Gourlay, C.M. Heterogenous nucleation of Cu6Sn5 in Sn-Cu-Al Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.08.251
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/19491
2014
26. Wilkinson, A.J., Tarleton, E. Vilalta-Clemente, A., Jiang, J., Britton, T.B. and Collins, D.M. Measurement of probability distributions for internal stresses in dislocated crystals Applied Physics Letters (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4901219
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/19489
25. Armstrong, D.E.J. and Britton, T.B. Effect of dislocation density on improved radiation hardening resistance of nano-structured tungsten-rhenium Materials Science and Engineering A (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2014.06.013 #OpenAccess
24. S.C. Speller, P. Dudin, S. Fitzgerald, G.M. Hughes, K. Kruska, T.B. Britton, A. Krzton-Maziopa, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, A. Barinov, and C.R.M. Grovenor High resolution characterisation of microstructural evolution in RbxFe2ySe2 crystals on annealing Physical Review B (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.024520
23. Guo, Y., Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Slip band-grain boundary interactions in commercial-purity titanium Acta Materiala (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2014.05.015
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/25973
22. Rugg, D., Britton, T.B., Gong, J., Wilkinson, A.J., Bagot, P.A. In-service materials support for safety critical applications – A case study of high strength Ti-alloy using advanced experimental and modelling techniques Materials Science and Engineering A (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2014.01.031
2013
21. Jiang, J., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J. Evolution of dislocation density distributions in copper during tensile deformation Acta Materiala (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2013.08.027
20. Britton, T.B., Jiang, J., Clough, R., Tarleton, E., Kirkland, A.I., and Wilkinson, A.J. Assessing the precision of strain measurements using electron backscatter diffraction – part 2: experimental demonstration Ultramicroscopy (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2013.08.006
19. Britton, T.B., Jiang, J., Clough, R., Tarleton, E., Kirkland, A.I., and Wilkinson, A.J. Assessing the precision of strain measurements using electron backscatter diffraction – part 1: detector assessment Ultramicroscopy (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2013.08.005
18. Jiang, J., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J., Mapping type III intragranular residual stress distributions in deformed copper polycrystals Acta Materialia (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2013.06.038
17. Britton, T.B., Jiang, J., Karamched, P.S., and Wilkinson, A.J. Probing deformation and revealing microstructural mechanisms with cross-correlation-based, high-resolution electron backscatter diffraction JOM (2013 - invited)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0680-6
16. Wilkinson, A.J., Moldovan, G., Britton, T.B., Bewick, A., Clough, R., and Kirkland, A.I. Direct detection of electron backscatter diffraction patterns Physical Review Letters (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.065506
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/12047
15. Jiang, J, Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J. Measurement of Geometrical Necessarily Dislocation Density with High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction: Effects of Detector Binning and Step Size Ultramicroscopy (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.11.003
14. Murdock, A.T., Koos, A.A, Britton, T.B., Houben, L., Batten,T., Zhang, T., Wilkinson, A.J., Dunin-Borkowski, R., Lekka, C.E., Grobert, N, Controlling orientation, edge geometry and thickness of CVD graphene ACS Nano (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn3049297
2012
13. Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Stress fields and geometrically necessary dislocation density distributions near the head of a blocked slip band Acta Materialia (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2012.07.004
12. Wilkinson A.J. and Britton, T.B. Strains, Planes and EBSD in Materials Science Materials Today (2012 - invited)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1369-7021(12)70163-3
11. Jiang, J, Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Accumulation of Geometrically Necessary Dislocations near Grain Boundaries in Deformed Copper Philosophy Magazine Letters (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500839.2012.700412
10. S. C. Speller, T. B. Britton, G. M. Hughes, A. Krzton-Maziopa, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, A. T. Boothroyd, C. R. M. Grovenor Microstructural analysis of phase separation in iron chalcogenide superconductors Superconductor Science and Technology (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-2048/25/8/084023
9. Britton T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. High resolution electron backscatter diffraction measurements of elastic strain variations in the presence of larger lattice rotations Ultramicroscopy (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.01.004
2011
8. Speller, S.C., Britton, T.B., Hughes, G., Lozano-Perez, S., Boothroyd, A.T., Pomjakushina, E., Conder, K., Grovenor, C.R.M. Analysis of local chemical and structural inhomogeneities in FeySe1-xTex single crystals Applied Physics Letters (2011) and selected for the Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3659302
7. Britton, T.B. and Wilkinson, A.J. Measurement of Residual Elastic Strain and Lattice Rotations with High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction Ultramicroscopy (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2011.05.007
6. Littlewood, P., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson A.J. Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Density Distributions in Ti-6Al-4V Deformed in Tension Acta Materiala (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2011.07.016
2010
5. Britton, T.B., Maurice, C., Fortunier, R., Driver, J.H., Day, A.P., Meaden, G., Dingley, D.J., Mingard, K. Wilkinson, A.J. Factors affecting the accuracy of high resolution electron backscatter diffraction when using simulated patterns Ultramicroscopy (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.08.001
4. Britton, T.B., Birosca, S., Preuss, M., Wilkinson, A.J. Electron Back Scatter Diffraction Study of Dislocation Content of a Macrozone in Hot Rolled Ti-6Al-4V alloy Scripta Materialia (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2010.01.010
3. Wilkinson, A.J., Clarke, E.E., Britton, T.B., Littlewood, P., Karamched, P.S. High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction: An Emerging Tool for Studying Local Deformation Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design (2010 - invited)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/03093247JSA587
2009
2. Britton, T.B., Liang, H., Dunne, F.P.E., and Wilkinson, A.J. The effect of crystal orientation on the indentation response of commercially pure titanium: experiments and simulations Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2009.0455
1. Britton, T.B., Randman, D. and Wilkinson, A.J. Nanoindentation study of slip transfer phenomenon at grain boundaries Journal of Materials Research (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2009.0088
Conference Publications
11. Birch, R. and Britton, T.B. "In situ EBSD Studies of Blocky Grain Growth in Welded Zircaloy-4" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-and-microanalysis/article/in-situ-ebsd-studies-of-blocky-grain-growth-in-welded-zircaloy4/88D76FF8EB9AE8DBA5D71EBA0297834B
10. Foden, A.F., Previero, A., and Britton, T.B. Advances in electron backscatter diffraction, proceedings article for the Risoe 40th International Symposium on Metal Microstructures in 2D, 3D and 4D
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04860
9. Britton, T.B.B, and Hickey, J.L.R. Understanding deformation with high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD) Accepted for publication in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00728
8. Jiang, J., Zhang, T., Dunne, F.P.E. and Britton, B. The Power of Correlative Microscopy–Understanding Deformation Compatibility with HR-EBSD and HR-DIC microscopy & microanalysis
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927616010497
7. Britton, T.B.B, and Hickey, J.L.R. Understanding deformation with high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction (HR-EBSD) Book of Tutorials and Abstracts of the EMAS 2017 Workshop / IUMAS-7 Meeting
Pre-print on ArXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00728
6. Rounthwaite, N.J., Williams, R., McGivery, Jiang, J., Giuliani, F. and Britton, T.B. A Chemical and Morphological Study of Diesel Injector Nozzle Deposits - Insights into their Formation and Growth Mechanisms SAE International (2017)
https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/2017-01-0798
5. J.W. Xian, S.A. Belyakov, T.B. Britton and C.M. Gourlay Heterogeneous Nucleation of Bulk Cu6Sn5 in Sn-Ag-Cu-Al and Sn-Cu-Al Solders Electronic Components & Technology Conference (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECTC.2015.7159915
4. Gui, Y., Britton, T.B., and Wilkinson, A.J. Stress concentrations, slip bands and grain boundaries in commercially pure titanium Proceedings of the World Titanium Conference (2015)
3. Jun, T.-S., Zhang, Z. , Dunne, F.P.E., Britton, T.B. Evaluation of local rate sensitivity in a dwell-sensitive Ti6242 using micropillar compression Proceedings of the World Titanium Conference (2015)
2. Wilkinson, A.J., Karamched, P.S., Britton, T.B. High resolution EBSD – 3D Strain Tensors, and Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Densities Proceedings of the 31st Risoe International Symposium on Materials Science: Challenges in materials science and possibilities in 3D and 4D characterisation techniques (2010)
1. Wilkinson, A.J., Britton, T.B., Jiang, J., and Karamched, P.S. A review of advances and challenges in EBSD strain mapping IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/55/1/01202
Articles
1. High angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction: measurement of strain in functional and structural materials | Ben Britton, Ian Holton, Graham Meaden and David Dingley | May 2013
http://www.microscopy-analysis.com/sites/default/files/2013_May_Britton.pdf
2. Energizing Our Future | Ben Britton | July 2019
https://issuu.com/jumpstartmagazine/docs/july_covers (page 17) and https://jumpstartmag.com/energizing-our-future/
3. The reward and risk of social media for academics | Ben Britton, Jess Wade, and Chris Jackson | August 2019
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-019-0121-3 & https://osf.io/5x6mr/
4. Get Talking - Pride in STEM | Ben Britton | July 2019
https://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2019/jul/01/get-talking-pride-stem
5. Lab Profile: Dr Ben Britton | Laurie Winkless
https://www.materialstoday.com/lab-profile-dr-ben-britton/
6. Get Talking - Pride in STEM | Ben Britton | July 2019
https://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2019/jul/01/get-talking-pride-stem
7. Get Talking - Dealing with Sexual Harassment in Materials Science | Rachel Oliver, Tanvir Hussain, Ben Britton, and Clara Barker | August 2019
8. Equality, diversity and inclusion in 2019: the good, the bad and the bigoted| Dr Jess Wade; Dr Ben Britton; Dr Clara Nellist; Professor Rachel Oliver; Dr Brian Patton
Data
An iron EBSD data set has been released here by Jim and Ben.
Theses
Vivian Tong (PhD 2016) - "EBSD characterisation of heterogeneous microstructures in zirconium alloys" https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10044/1/55106