Professor Julie Yeomans

Head of Department, Professor of Ceramic Materials, Director of the Industrial Doctorate Centre in Micro and Nanomaterials & Technologies

Qualifications: MA, PhD (Cantab), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, FIMMM, Chartered Engineer CEng and Chartered Scientist CSci

Email: j.yeomans@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9613
Room no: 29 AB 03

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Research Interests

Localised fracture in ceramics and ceramic matrix composites resulting from indentation, impact, wear and/or thermal shock
Production of toughened ceramics
Metal - ceramic interactions

Publications

Highlights

Millar L, Taherparvar H, Filkin N, Slater P, Yeomans J. (2008) 'Interaction of (La1-xSrx)(1-y)MnO3-Zr1-zYzO2-d cathodes and LaNi0.6Fe0.4O3 current collecting layers for solid oxide fuel cell application'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV SOLID STATE IONICS, 179 (19-20), pp. 732-739.
doi: 10.1016/j.ssi.2008.04.023
Yeomans JA. (2008) 'Ductile particle ceramic matrix composites - Scientific curiosities or engineering materials?'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 28 (7), pp. 1543-1550.
doi: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2007.12.009
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/712003/
Wright GJ, Yeomans JA. (2008) 'The influence of screen-printing parameters on the microstructure and gas permeance of a zirconia electrolyte'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 28 (4), pp. 779-785.
doi: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2007.09.027
Delaforce PM, Yeomans JA, Filkin NC, Wright GJ, Thomson RC. (2007) 'Effect of NiO on the phase stability and microstructure of yttria-stabilized zirconia'. BLACKWELL PUBLISHING JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 90 (3), pp. 918-924.
doi: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2006.01464.x
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/712565/

Journal articles

Kastritseas C, Smith PA, Yeomans JA. (2010) 'Thermal shock fracture in cross-ply fibre-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites'. TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE, 90 (31-32) Article number PII 923938348 , pp. 4209-4226.
doi: 10.1080/14786431003785621
Wright GJ, Yeomans JA. (2009) 'Three-step sintering of constrained yttria stabilised zirconia layers and its effect on microstructure and gas permeance'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 29 (10), pp. 1933-1938.
doi: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2008.12.013
Kastritseas C, Smith PA, Yeomans JA. (2008) 'Thermal shock behaviour of angle-ply and woven dense ceramic-matrix composites'. SPRINGER JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, 43 (12), pp. 4112-4118.
doi: 10.1007/s10853-007-2314-2
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/712005/
Wright GJ, Yeomans JA. (2008) 'Constrained Sintering of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Electrolytes: The Influence of Two-Step Sintering Profiles on Microstructure and Gas Permeance'. WILEY-BLACKWELL INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY, 5 (6), pp. 589-596.
doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7402.2008.02263.x
Wright GJ, Yeomans JA. (2008) 'The influence of screen-printing parameters on the microstructure and gas permeance of a zirconia electrolyte'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 28 (4), pp. 779-785.
doi: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2007.09.027
Yeomans JA. (2008) 'Ductile particle ceramic matrix composites - Scientific curiosities or engineering materials?'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 28 (7), pp. 1543-1550.
doi: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2007.12.009
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/712003/
Millar L, Taherparvar H, Filkin N, Slater P, Yeomans J. (2008) 'Interaction of (La1-xSrx)(1-y)MnO3-Zr1-zYzO2-d cathodes and LaNi0.6Fe0.4O3 current collecting layers for solid oxide fuel cell application'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV SOLID STATE IONICS, 179 (19-20), pp. 732-739.
doi: 10.1016/j.ssi.2008.04.023
Delaforce PM, Yeomans JA, Filkin NC, Wright GJ, Thomson RC. (2007) 'Effect of NiO on the phase stability and microstructure of yttria-stabilized zirconia'. BLACKWELL PUBLISHING JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 90 (3), pp. 918-924.
doi: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2006.01464.x
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/712565/
Kiani S, Pan J, Yeomans JA, Barriere M, Blanchart P. (2007) 'Finite element analysis of sintering deformation using densification data instead of a constitutive law'. ELSEVIER SCI LTD JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 27 (6), pp. 2377-2383.
doi: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2006.08.019
Kiani S, Pan J, Yeomans JA. (2006) 'A new scheme of finding the master sintering curve'. BLACKWELL PUBLISHING J AM CERAM SOC, 89 (11), pp. 3393-3396.
doi: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2006.01252.x
Kastritseas C, Smith PA, Yeomans JA. (2006) 'Damage characterisation of thermally shocked cross-ply ceramic composite laminates'. SPRINGER JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, 41 (3), pp. 951-962.
doi: 10.1007/s10853-006-6591-8
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/712257/

Professional Activities

Member of Strategic Advisory Team for the EPSRC's Materials, Mechanical and Medical Engineering Programme.
Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Ceramic Science Committee.
Member of the American Ceramic Society

Current Research Programmes

Microstructure - property relationships in ceramics for high strain rate applications.
Thermal shock of ceramic materials.
Effect of constraint on microstructural development in sintering