Professor Margaret Stack

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Personal statement

My research interests are focused on the interactions of solid particle erosion and wear of materials in corrosive environments, with specific emphasis on the development of mapping techniques for understanding the mechanisms of materials loss. These include the marine renewable engineering, bio-medical and oil & gas fields. I head up the Tribology Research Group in the Department which has attracted over £2m of research funding since 2016. I am a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (CPhys, FInsP), of the Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals (FIMMM) and the Institution of Engineers of Ireland (CEng, FIEI).

I have led the EPSRC funded ReC-ASM (£1.1m) project which aims to optimize materials in marine and tidal energy conversion and currently lead a group of 15 PhD and MEng researchers including 3 Research Associates.

My group has authored approximately 200 publications (135 journal articles) and has a H index of 42.

Our research findings have been presented at over 70 international/national conferences.

I lead the International Network on Tribo-Corrosion (TrICorr-Net) and sit on several editorial boards including Tribology International.

Our group has founded the first journal in Tribo-Corrosion of which I am Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion (Springer).

I was Overseas Chair for Tribo-Corrosion V, Hyderabad, India, December 2016.

Publications

Mapping raindrop erosion of GFRP composite wind turbine blade materials : perspectives on degradation effects in offshore and acidic environmental conditions: Rasool Ghulam, Middleton Anna C, Stack Margaret M; Journal of Tribology (2019)
Review of analytical techniques for assessing rain drop erosion resistance of materials: Pugh K, Nash JWK, Raeburn G, Stack MM; 14th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (2019)
Tribo-Corrosion V 2016–a return to Hyderabad: Roy Manish, Stack Margaret M; Tribology International Vol 141 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2019.105945
Repeated impact of simulated hail ice on glass fibre composite materials: Macdonald Hamish, Nash David, Stack Margaret M; Wear Vol 432-433 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2019.06.001
Raindrop erosion of composite materials : some views on the effect of bending stress on erosion mechanisms: Pugh Kieran, Rasool Ghulam, Stack Margaret M; Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion Vol 5 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1007/s40735-019-0234-8
A note on a design protocol for deoxygenation of water: Zekos I, Stack MM; Electrochemistry Communications Vol 103, pp. 12-16 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2019.04.009

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Professional activities

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, External examiner PhD: Examiner; 1/2019
3rd International Brazilian Conference on Tribology: Participant; 3/12/2018
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India, External examiner PhD: Examiner; 1/10/2018
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, External examiner PhD.: Examiner; 9/2018
17th Nordic Symposium on Tribology: Keynote/plenary speaker; 14/6/2016
International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films: Member of programme committee; 23/4/2016

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Projects

REMS | Aghasibayli, Sabina: Brennan, Feargal (Principal Investigator) Stack, Margaret (Co-investigator) Aghasibayli, Sabina (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2021
Erosion-Corrosion Mapping in Oil/Water Solutions: Stack, Margaret (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2019
SPIRE 2 (Storage Platform for the Integration of Renewable Energy): Stack, Margaret (Principal Investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator); £1,079,092.99; 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2021
Marine Renewable Infrastructure Network for Enhancing Technologies 2 MARINET II: Johnstone, Cameron (Principal Investigator) Day, Sandy (Co-investigator) Stack, Margaret (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2021
Centre for Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy Generation: CAMREG: Stack, Margaret (Principal Investigator) Brennan, Feargal (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2020
APESA (H2020 MSCA EID): MacKenzie, Donald (Principal Investigator) Comlekci, Tugrul (Co-investigator) Dempster, William (Co-investigator) Galloway, Alexander (Co-investigator) Stack, Margaret (Co-investigator) Stickland, Matthew (Co-investigator) Thomason, James (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2019

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
James Weir Building

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