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Stacking faults in shock-compressed copper

Shock-induced stacking faults in dynamically compressed copper modelled using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations

Patrick Heighway

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Research theme

  • Lasers and high energy density science

Sub department

  • Atomic and Laser Physics

Research groups

  • Oxford Centre for High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS)
patrick.heighway@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Molecular dynamics simulation of double-slip in a bcc crystal
Giving the slip to a metal deformation mystery

A kinematic model uses X-ray diffraction patterns to identify active slip systems during the dynamic compression of metals

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Image of the GP03 (Resonances and Harmonics) experiment from the physics Practical Course.
The GP03 (Resonances and Harmonics) experiment in the General Physics laboratory, in which students study the harmonic modes of a taut wire.

Within the Department, I am a Senior Demonstrator in the first-year General Physics teaching laboratory for Oxford's undergraduate physics Practical Course. In this lab, our first-years carry out experiments illustrating the physics of harmonic and normal-mode motion, rotational motion, wave-particle duality, and radioactive decay. They are also brought up to speed on the basics of error analysis and scientific report writing. I have also demonstrated these experiments in an outreach context, and have demonstrated on the first-year Data Analysis course.

I am currently the Coordinating Tutor for Physics at St Hilda's College, where I teach the first- and second-year Mathematics courses and second-year Thermal Physics. I was also a Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics at New College for two years. In this role, I taught second-year Electromagnetism & Mathematical Methods and first-year Normal Modes & Waves. I also carried out undergraduate admissions interviews as part of that post.

Outside the University, I was an external teacher of A-Level Further Mathematics at a local sixth form during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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