Ming-Chun ZHAO

Special Research Fellow (Postdoctoral)
Metallurgical Processing Group
Steel Research Center
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Research Topics

1. Thermo-mechanical processing: mechanism, microstructure & control.
   
   
2. Microstructure and property of structural steels: pipeline steels, acicular ferrite/bainite steels.
   
   
3. Hydrogen brittlement: hydrogen induced cracking, sulfide stress cracking, stress corrosion cracking.
   
   
4. The trade-off between strength and toughness of metals.

List of Articles

Paper in Journal -indexed by Sci/Ei (only the first author's listed):

1. Grain growth and Hall-Petch relaion in dual-sized ferrite/cementite stel with nano-sized cementite particles in a heterogeneous and dense distribution, Scripta Materialia, 54, 6, 1193-1197, 2006
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Toshihiro Hanamura, Hai Qiu, Kotobu Nagai and Ke Yang
   
   
2. Dependence of strength-elongation balance on the volumen fraction of cementite particles in ultrafine grained ferrite/cementite steels, Scripta Materialia, 54, 7, 1385-1389, 2006
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Toshihiro Hanamura, Hai Qiu, Kotobu Nagai and Ke Yang
   
   
3. Precipitation of Carbonitrides and Their Strengthening upon Non-quench Aging for Micro-alloyed Acicular Ferrite Pipeline Steels, Mater. Trans., 46, 4, 784-789, 2005, indexed by Sci & Ei.
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Toshihiro Hanamura, Hai Qiu, Ke Yang
   
   
4. Effects of Nano-sized Microalloyed Carbonitrides and High-density Pinned Dislocations on Sulfide Stress Cracking Resistance of Pipeline Steels, Journal Materials Research, vol.20(9),2248-2251, 2005, indexed by Sci & Ei.
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Ke Yang
   
   
5. Microstructural evolution of sub-micron sized ferrite in ultrafine-ferrite/cementite microstructure by sub-critical annealing, Metall Mater Trans. A, accepted and in press, 2006, indexed by Sci & Ei.
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Toshihiro Hanamura, Hai Qiu, Ke Yang
   
   
6. Strengthening and improvement of sulfide stress cracking resistance in acicular ferrite pipeline steels by nano-sized carbonitrides, Scripta Mater., 52, 881-886, 2005, indexed by Sci & Ei.
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Ke Yang
   
   
7. Lath boundary thin-film martensite in acicular ferrite ultralow carbon pipeline steels, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 395, 327-332, 2005, indexed by Sci & Ei.
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Toshihiro Hanamura, Hai Qiu, Ke Yang
   
   
8. Difference in the role of non-quench aging on mechanical properties between acicular ferrite and ferrite-pearlite pipeline steels, ISIJ Int. 45, 116-120, 2005, indexed by Sci & Ei.
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Toshihiro Hanamura, Hai Qiu, Kotobu Nagai, Yi-Yin Shan and Ke Yang
   
   
9. Effect of Aging Treatment on Mechanical Property and H2S Resistant Behavior of Acicular Ferrite Pipeline Steels, Acta Metall. Sin., 40, 9, 948-954, 2004, indexed by Sci & Ei.
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Ke Yang
   
   
10. Role of microstructure on sulfide stress cracking of oil and gas pipeline steels, Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 34A, 1089-1096, 2003, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Bei Tang, Yi-Yin Shan, Ke Yang
    
    
11. Continuous cooling transformation of undeformed and deformed low carbon pipeline steels, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 355, 126-136, 2003, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Ke Yang, Fu-Ren Xiao, Yi-Yin Shan
    
    
12. Comparison on strength and toughness behaviors of microalloyed pipeline steels with acicular ferrite and ultrafine ferrite, Mater. Lett., 57, 1496-1500, 2003, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Ke Yang, Yi-Yin Shan
    
    
13. Acicular ferrite formation during hot plate rolling for pipeline steels, Mater. Sci. Technol., 19, 355-359, 2003, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Fu-Ren Xiao, Ke Yang
    
    
14. The effects of thermo-mechanical control process on microstructures and mechanical properties of a commercial pipeline steel, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 335, 14-20, 2002, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Ke Yang, Yiying Shan
    
    
15. Investigation on the H2S-resistant behaviors of acicular ferrite and ultrafine ferrite, Mater. Lett., 57, 141-145, 2002, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Ying Shan, Fu Ren Xiao, Ke Yang, Yu Hai Li
    
    
16. Microstructural characteristic and toughening of an ultralow carbon acicular ferrite pipeline steel, Acta Metall. Sin., 38, 283-287, 2002, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Fu-Ren Xiao, Yi-Yin Shan, Yu-Hai Li, Ke Yang
    
    
17. Formation and strength-toughness behavior of acicular ferrite in an ultralow carbon steel for line pipe, Chinese J. Mater Res. (in Chinese), 16, 619-624, 2002, indexed by Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Ke Yang, Yu-Hai Li, Xing-Hua Jiang
    
    
18. Effect of thermomechanical control process on mechanical property of a low carbon steel for line pipe, Chinese J. Mater. Res. (in Chinese), 15, 669-674, 2001, indexed by Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Zhen-Guo Yang, Fu-Ren Xiao, Ke Yang, Yu-Hai Li
    
    
19. Study on formation and strength & toughness behavior of acicular ferrite in a pipeline steel, Mater. Sci. & Technical (in Chinese), 9, 356-358, 2001, indexed by Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Fu-Ren Xiao, Yu-Hai Li, Ke Yang
    
    
20. Effect of microstructure on sulfide stress corrosion cracking of pipeline steels, Acta Metall. Sin., 37, 1087-1092, 2001, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Yu-Hai Li, Ke Yang
    
    
21. Acicular ferrite formation in a pipeline steel with thermo-mechanical control process, Acta Metall. Sin., 37, 820-824, 2001, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Jin-Bo Qu, Fu-Ren Xiao, Yong Zhong, Ke Yang
    
    
22. Effects of thermo-mechanical control process on microstructures and mechanical properties of X60 pipeline steel, Acta Metall. Sin., 37, 179-183, 2001, indexed by Sci & Ei.
    Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Jin-Bo Qu, Ke Yang, Shan Gao, Lei Zheng
    
    
    

Paper in Proceedings (only the first author's listed):

1. 1. Comparison on anti-H2S behaviors of micro-alloyed pipeline steels with acicular ferrite and ultrafine ferrite, Microalloyed Steels 2002, Proceedings from Materials Solutions Conference 2002, ASM International, (7-9 October, 2002, Columbus, Ohio, USA), p78-83.
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Yi-Kang Wang, Fu-Ren Xiao, Ke Yang
   
   
2. Study on strength & toughness behavior and H2S corrosion resistance of acicular ferrite, CSM 2001 annual meeting proceedings, Metallurgical Industry Press (in Chinese), Beijing, Oct. 2001, 891-893,
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Jin-Bo Qu, Fu-Ren Xiao, Yong Zhong, Ke Yang
   
   
3. Investigation on hydrogen induced cracking and stress corrosion cracking of acicular ferrite and ultrafine ferrite in H2S enviroments, Workshop on new generation steel (in Chinese), Beijing, Nov. 2001, 363-366,
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Fu-Ren Xiao, Zhen-Guo Yang, Ke Yang, Yu-Hai Li
   
   

Patents (National invent patents):

1. A technique for improving the strength of hot rolling plates for acicular ferrite pipeline steels, (China invent patent No. 02130812.8, 2002.9.23).
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Yi-Yin Shan, Fu-Ren Xiao, Ke Yang
   
   
2. A technique for improving the H2S resistance of hot rolling plates for acicular ferrite pipeline steels (China invent patent No. 200310119050.3, 2003.12.12).
   Ming-Chun Zhao, Ke Yang, Yi-Yin Shan
   
   
3. A designed method of a pipeline steel with high purity and high strength & toughness for gas transportation, (China invent patent No.00123128.6, 2000.10.26).
   Yi-Yin Shan, Jin-Bo Qu, Ming-Chun Zhao, Ke Yang
   
   
4. An ultralow carbon pipeline steel with sulfide hydrogen resistance and high toughness for gas transportation, (China invent patent No. 00123185.5, 2000.11.01).
   Yi-Yin Shan, Jin-Bo Qu, Ming-Chun Zhao, Ke Yang
   
   
   

Education and working experiences

• 2004-present: Postdoctoral researcher,
  National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
  
  
• 1998-2003: Awarded PH.D Degree,
  Institute of Metal Research (IMR),
  Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
  Supervisor: Prof. Ke Yang
  Title of PH.D dissertation: gMicrostructure and Property of New-generation Acicular Ferrite Pipeline Steelh.
  
  
• 1996-1998: Assistant Engineer,
  Institute of Changsha Mine Research, Changsha, China
  
  
• 1992-1996: Awarded Bachelor Degree
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
  Central South University,
  Changsha, China
  Majoring in Materials Engineering
  
  
  

Honors and awards (since 2000)

1. First Prize Scholarship for Master, IMR, 2000.
   
   
2. Shi Chang-Xu Prize for Master, IMR, 2001.
   
   
3. Liu Yong-Ling Prize for Master, CAS, 2001.
   
   
4. Excellent CITIC|CBMM paper prize for Nb application, China International Trust and Investment Coporation (CITIC) Microalloying Technology Center, 2001.
   
   
5. Excellent Scholarship for Doctor, IMR, 2002.
   
   
6. First Shi Chang-Xu Prize for Doctor, IMR, 2003.
   
   
7. Excellent Prize of 2003 President Scholarship for Doctor, CAS, 2003.