PhD Candidate
Dep. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Nicol Hall, 60 Union Street, Kingston, K7L 3N6, Ontario, Canada
Tel: (613) 533 6000(ext)77594
Email:
Idreesy[at]me[dot]queensu[dot]ca
Biography
M.Sc. Applied physics (2006)
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
B.Sc. (2004)
University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Current research field:
- Nuclear Materials
- Radiation Induced Damage
- Electron Microscopy
Research Interests
Extensive research on Zirconium and its alloys used to manufacture power reactors has demonstrated that radiation induced damage has dramatic and deleterious effects on properties of these materials. During irradiation, microstructure evolves into a complicated combination of vacancy and interstitial type dislocation loops and other less well defined microstructural features. Microstructural characterization, with Transmission Electron Microscopy, is imperative because it underpins the mechanistic understanding of the radiation induced microstructural features, which is essential for predicting materials properties at higher doses. The main focus of my current research is the characterization of the radiation induced damage. Among the many questions in this area, the most important is to characterize the nature of different kind of dislocation loops generated during irradiation.