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Mikael Segersäll

Senior Associate Professor

I teach and perform research within the area of material science. To combine the meeting with students and participation in research projects is very stimulating.

Materials science plays an important role in a sustainable society

When aiming for a sustainable usage of the resources of the world, materials science plays an important role since we not only have to find new materials but also use the already existing materials in a more efficient way. To work with materials science is very interesting since it is a broad area which includes topics as for example physics, chemistry and environment.

Teaching in materials science

Our undergraduate teaching mainly concerns the connection between the mechanical properties of a material and its inner structure. The fact that a steel is stronger compared to a plastic material is probably obvious for most of us, but why is it like that? To understand why different materials behave like they do is of great importance when aiming for usage of the full material potential.

I teach materials science on different engineering programmes and also supervise projects and thesis workers within the area.The engineering programmes I teach:

  • Mechanical engineering (M),
  • Design and product development (DPU),
  • Industrial engineering and management (I),
  • Energy, environment and management (EMM).

Testing materials for turbines

My research concerns the development a more efficient power generation by gas turbines. Today, many gas turbines are used as a complement for renewable sources, for example when the wind is not blowing or when the sun is not shining, which means that the turbine runs differently compared to earlier, when it ran for longer time periods with a lower number of start-ups and shut-downs. This leads to different requirements on the materials used in critical turbine components compared to earlier.

Publications

2024

Mohamed Sahbi Loukil, Sergio Costa, Mats Bergwall, H. S. Deepthi Prasad, Florence Moreau, Mikael Segersäll, Zlatan Kapidzic, Robin Olsson (2024) Experimental and numerical investigation on bearing behavior of hybrid thin/thick-ply composite laminates Composite structures, Vol. 331, Article 117888 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Mattias Calmunger, Hugo Wärner, Guocai Chai, Mikael Segersäll (2023) Thermomechanical Fatigue of Heat Resistant Austenitic Alloys Procedia Structural Integrity, Vol. 43, p. 130-135 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Ahmed Azeez, Daniel Leidermark, Mikael Segersäll, Robert Eriksson (2023) Numerical prediction of warm pre-stressing effects for a steam turbine steel Theoretical and applied fracture mechanics (Print), Vol. 125, Article 103940 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Stefan B. Lindstrom, Hannes Wemming, Zlatan Kapidzic, Mohamed Sahbi Loukil, Mikael Segersäll (2023) Integrated digital image correlation for mechanical characterization of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer plates Composite structures, Vol. 305, Article 116501 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2022

Mohamed Sahbi Loukil, Mats Bergwall, Deepthi Prasad, Florence Moreau, Mikael Segersäll, Zlatan Kapidzic (2022) EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON BEARING BEHAVIOR AND FAILURE MECHANISM OF HYBRID THIN/THICK-PLY COMPOSITE LAMINATES ECCM 2022 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability, p. 999-1006 (Conference paper)

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CV

  • PhD, Engineering materials, Linköping University, 2014.
  • MSc, Mechanical engineering, Linköping University, 2009.

Commitment 

  • Director of studies at the division of Engineering materials.

Publications

2024

Mohamed Sahbi Loukil, Sergio Costa, Mats Bergwall, H. S. Deepthi Prasad, Florence Moreau, Mikael Segersäll, Zlatan Kapidzic, Robin Olsson (2024) Experimental and numerical investigation on bearing behavior of hybrid thin/thick-ply composite laminates Composite structures, Vol. 331, Article 117888 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Mattias Calmunger, Hugo Wärner, Guocai Chai, Mikael Segersäll (2023) Thermomechanical Fatigue of Heat Resistant Austenitic Alloys Procedia Structural Integrity, Vol. 43, p. 130-135 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Ahmed Azeez, Daniel Leidermark, Mikael Segersäll, Robert Eriksson (2023) Numerical prediction of warm pre-stressing effects for a steam turbine steel Theoretical and applied fracture mechanics (Print), Vol. 125, Article 103940 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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