Dr Brian Monaghan
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Pyrometallurgical Group Leader; Senior Lecturer Address: School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronics Univeristy of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522 Phone: 02 4221 4580 Fax: 02 4221 3112 Email: brian_monaghan@uow.edu.au Webpage: http://www.uow.edu.au/eng/staff/monaghan.html Research Group: UWollongong, Engineering, Mechanical Materials & Mechatronic, Materials |
Role in the network
Experienced Researcher (ER)Materials Research Focus
Materials solutions for advanced manufacturingCurrent Research Activities
Generally involved in research involving the kinetics and thermodynamics of high temperature materials processing. Current projects includeSurface tension effects on coke dissoltion in liquid iron
Coke reactivity at high temperatures
Slag reactivity and its effect on containment materials
Welding fume kinetics
Selected Publications
External Publication ListNightingale, S.A., Brooks, G.A, and Monaghan, B.J.: Degradation of MgO Refractory in CaO-SiO2-MgO-FeOx and CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-MgO-FeOx Slags under Complex Flow Conditions, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 36B, 2005, pp453-461.
Monaghan B.J and Brooks R.: Thermo-Physical Properties of Slags for Process Control, Ironmaking and Steelmaking, Vol. 29, 2002, p115.
Quested, P.N., Brooks, R.F., Monaghan, B.J. and Mills, K.C.: Some Cautionary Notes in the Measurement and use of Thermophysical Property, High Temperatures-High Pressures, Vol.34, 2002, p253.
Quested, P.N. and Monaghan B.J.: The Measurement of Thermophysical Properties of Molten Slags and Fluxes, High Temperature Materials and Processes, Vol. 20, 2001, p219.
Monaghan B.J. and Quested P.N.: Thermal Diffusivity of Iron at High Temperatures in both the Liquid and Solid States, ISIJ International, Vol. 41, 2001, p1524.
Monaghan, B.J.: A Four-Probe dc Method for Measuring the Electrical Resistivities of Molten Metals, International Journal of Thermophysics, Vol. 20, 1999, p677.
Nasu, M., Mills, K.C., Monaghan, B.J., Jakobsson, A., and Seetharaman, S.: The Effect of Slag Metal Interfacial Tension on the Kinetics of Dephosphorisation, Ironmaking and Steelmaking, Vol. 26, 1999, p353.
Monaghan, B. J., Pomfret, R.J. and Coley K.S.: The Kinetics of Dephosphorisation of Carbon Saturated Iron Using a Lime Based Slag, Metallurgical Transactions B, Vol. 29B, 1998, p111.
Mills, K. C., Monaghan, B.J. and Keene B.J.: Thermal Conductivities of Molten Metals: Part 1 Pure Metals, International Materials Reviews, Vol. 41, 1996, p 209.
Monaghan, B.J. , Pomfret, R. and Coley, K.: Kinetics of Hot Metal Dephosphorisation using Lime Based Slags, The Charles Benjamin Alcock Symposium on High Temperature Materials Chemistry, edt. Steele B.C.H., Institute of Materials, U.K., October 1993, p253
Membership/Fellowship of Key Organisations
Vice Chair of the Australian Chapter of the AISTMemeber of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
