Angus J. Wilkinson

Angus J. Wilkinson is a professor of materials science based at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. He is a specialist in micromechanics, electron microscopy and crystal plasticity. He assists in overseeing the MicroMechanics group while focusing on the fundamentals of material deformation. He developed the HR-EBSD method for mapping stress and dislocation density at high spatial resolution used at the micron scale in mechanical testing  and micro-cantilevers to extract data on mechanical properties that are relevant to materials engineering.

Selected publications

 * Wilkinson AJ, Meaden G, Dingley DJ. High-resolution elastic strain measurement from electron backscatter diffraction patterns: New levels of sensitivity. Ultramicroscopy 2006;106:307–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2005.10.001.
 * Wilkinson AJ, Hirsch PB. Electron diffraction based techniques in scanning electron microscopy of bulk materials. Micron 1997;28:279–308. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-4328(97)00032-2.
 * Wilkinson AJ, Britton T. Strains, planes, and EBSD in materials science. Materials Today 2012;15:366–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1369-7021(12)70163-3.
 * Wilkinson AJ, Randman D. Determination of elastic strain fields and geometrically necessary dislocation distributions near nanoindents using electron back scatter diffraction. Philosophical Magazine 2010;90:1159–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786430903304145.
 * Guo Y, Britton TB, Wilkinson AJ. Slip band–grain boundary interactions in commercial-purity titanium. Acta Mater 2014;76:1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ACTAMAT.2014.05.015.
 * Britton TB, Wilkinson AJ. High resolution electron backscatter diffraction measurements of elastic strain variations in the presence of larger lattice rotations. Ultramicroscopy 2012;114:82–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ULTRAMIC.2012.01.004.
 * Zhai T, Wilkinson AJ, Martin JW. A crystallographic mechanism for fatigue crack propagation through grain boundaries. Acta Mater 2000;48:4917–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1359-6454(00)00214-7.