Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Corrosion Research Group Leader, Director of SAgE Faculty Services and Director of SAgE Faculty Foundation Year.

Qualifications

BSc, PhD, FICorr, CChem, MRSC, Senior Corrosion Technologist (NACE International)

Memberships

FRMS, FRAS and member of the Welding Institute (TWI)

Research Interests

I trained as an electrochemist but have worked in the area of metals and alloys for many years. My research is mainly on corrosion and electrochemical topics associated with alloys used in the power-generating industry and in pipeline systems. I have an interest in high temperature measurements of pH and potential and in all types of envronment assisted cracking from hydrogen embrittlement to corrosion fatigue.

Research themes:

Other Expertise

I direct an analytical support service for the faculty and have expertise in scanning electron microscopy and spectroscopic analysis.

Postgraduate Supervision

Jinwei Chen 1998-2003 (100%)
Shahinoor Dulal 1999-2003 (50% share)
Carly De Silva 2000-unsubmitted (100%)
Wenzhong Zhang 1999-2004 (100%)
Mirjan Vicevic 2003-2008 (70% share)
Alahji Mustapha 2006- (90% share)
Katrina McDonaugh 2005- (10% share part-time)
Octavio Albores 2007- (70% share)

Esteem Indicators

Chartered Chemist, 2001
Fellow of the Institute of Corrosion, 2002
Assistant Editor of international journal, Electrochimica Acta, 2000 -2002

Industrial Relevance

Consultancy

Specialist Expertise
Electron microscopy service and chemical analysis services - see ACMA website: www.ncl.ac.uk/acma/ and Adanced Materials Group website: research.ncl.ac.uk/advmat/index.htm

Specialist Equipment
See ACMA website: www.ncl.ac.uk/acma/ and Advanced Materials Group website: research.ncl.ac.uk/advmat/index.htm

Patents

UK 2227365 in respect of an electrical level sensor

Undergraduate Teaching

Modules in chemistry, corrosion, materials science and materials engineering from Foundation Year through to Masters level.
I am module leader for eight modules, Course Director for Foundation Year, Chair of Board of Studies and Chair of Staff Student Committee for Foundation Year.

Postgraduate Teaching

Modules in corrosion and materials science to MSc across several Schools. I am DPD for the Materials MSc programme.

• Charles EA, Ness MG. Crevice corrosion of implants recovered after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy in dogs. Veterinary Surgery 2006, 35(5), 438-444.
• Zhang W, Charles EA. A thermodynamic approach to calculate the yttria-stabilized zirconia pH sensor potential. Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 2003,33 11 1025-1033.
• Li GF, Charles EA, Congleton J. Effect of post weld heat treatment on stress corrosion cracking of a low alloy steel to stainless steel transition weld. Corrosion Science 2001, 43(10), 1963-1983.
• Dulal SMSI, Charles EA, Roy S. Characterisation of Co-Ni(Cu)/Cu multilayers deposited from a citrate electrolyte in a flow channel cell. Electrochimica Acta 2004,49 12 2041-2049.
• Hardie D, Xu J, Charles EA, Wei Y. Hydrogen embrittlement of stainless steel overlay materials for hydrogenators. Corrosion Science 2004,46 12 3089-3100.
• Congleton J, Charles EA, Sui G. Review on effect of cyclic loading on environmental assisted cracking of alloy 600 in typical nuclear coolant waters. Corrosion Science 2001, 43(12), 2265-2279.
• Hardie D, Charles EA, Lopez AH. Hydrogen embrittlement of high strength pipeline steels. Corrosion Science 2006, 48(12), 4378-4385.
• Dulal SMSI, Charles EA, Roy S. Dissolution from electrodeposited copper-cobalt-copper sandwiches. Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 2004,34 2 151-158.
• Zhang W, Charles EA, Congleton J. Thermodynamic foundation for high temperature electrochemistry. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities 2004,20 4 494-500.
• Congleton J, Charles EA. Some uses of slow strain rate testing under applied potential control in studying SCC of materials in nuclear power plant. In: TMS International Conference on Hydrogen Effects on Material Behaviour and Corrosion Deformation Interactions. 2003, Moran, Wyoming, USA: The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
• Congleton J, Charles EA. Stress corrosion of iron base alloys in high temperature water. In: TMS annual meeting (in honour of Roger Staehle). 2001, USA: TMS.
• Mustapha A, Charles EA, Hardie D. Evaluation of environment-assisted cracking susceptibility of a grade X100 pipeline steel. Corrosion Science 2012, 54, 5-9.
• Mustapha A, Charles EA, Hardie D. The effect of microstructure on stress-strain behaviour and susceptibility to cracking of pipeline steels. Journal of Metallurgy 2012, Article ID 638290.
• Albores-Silva OE, Charles EA, Padovani C. Effect of chloride deposition on stress corrosion cracking of 316L stainless steel used for intermediate level radioactive waste containers. Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology 2011, 46(2), 124-128.
• Ahchawarattaworn J, Charles E, Thompson D, Freer R. Perovskite-type oxynitride dielectrics. In: The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society: 3rd International Conference on Processing Materials for Properties (PMP III). 2009, Bangkok, Thailand: The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).
• Congleton J, Charles EA. Some uses of slow strain rate testing under applied potential control in studying SCC of materials used in nuclear power plants. In: Hydrogen Effects on Material Behaviour and Corrosion Deformation Interactions - Proc. of the International Conference on Hydrogen Effects on Material Behaviour and Corrosion Deformation Interactions. 2003, Moran, Wyoming, USA: The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
• Congleton J, Charles EA. Stress corrosion of iron-base alloys in high temperature water environments. In: Symposium on Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking - A Symposium Honoring the Contributions of RW Staehle. 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.