Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Engineering

Dr Tim Hilditch
  Phone   +61 3 522 72265
Email   tim.hilditch@deakin.edu.au
Position   Senior Lecturer
Campus   Geelong

Dr. Tim Hilditch is the Associate Head of School (Research) in Engineering at Deakin University. He
completed his PhD on sheet metal forming in conjunction with the Ford Motor Company of
Australia. Since then he has worked closely with automotive OEMs in Australia and the US on a
range of projects including stamping, spot-welding, tool wear, and the use of wrought magnesium
and aluminium in automotive structures. His current interests include the fatigue of complex
microstructures.

Research interests

  1. Fatigue and fracture
  2. Metal deformation
  3. Automotive materials and manufacturing


Key publications

Malekjani, S., Hodgson, P.D., Cizek, P., and Hilditch, T.B. (2011) Cyclic deformation response of ultrafine pure Al Acta Materialia 59 (13), pp. 5358-5367 Elsevier

Kashef, S., Asgari, A., Hilditch, T.B., Yan, W., Goel V.K. and Hodgson, P.D., (2010) Fracture toughness of titanium foams for medical applications Materials Science and Engineering A 527 (29-30), pp. 7689-7693 Elsevier

Hilditch T.B., Timokhina I.B., Robertson L.T., Pereloma E.V. and Hodgson P.D. (2009) Cyclic deformation of advanced high strength steels – mechanical behaviour and microstructural analysis Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A Vol 40, No 2, pp. 342-353 TMS

Robertson L.T., Hilditch T.B. and Hodgson P.D. (2008) The Effect of Prestrain and Bake Hardening on the Low-Cycle Fatigue Properties of TRIP Steel International Journal of Fatigue Vol 30, No 4, pp. 587-594 Elsevier

Hilditch T.B., Speer J.G., and Matlock D.K. (2007) Effect of susceptibility to interfacial fracture on fatigue properties of spot-welded high strength sheet steel Materials and Design Vol 28, No 10, pp. 2566-2576 Elsevier

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Postdoctoral fellows

NameProject title
Shokoufeh MalekjaniLCF of ultrafine aluminium alloys  

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Shokoufeh Malekjani Cyclic Deformation Behaviour of Ultrafine-Grained Aluminium Leigh RobertsonFatigue Characterisation of HSS and AHSS Sadaf KashefBiomechanical Properties of Porous Metal Scaffolds as Implant Materials  

 

Teaching areas

Materials
Manufacturing Processes
Material Failure


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8th February 2013