Rolf Sandström

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Biography: Rolf Sandström is professor emiritus in Applied Materials Technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. In recent years he has focused his research on developing basic models for mechanical properties without involving any adjustable parameters inspired by ab initio work. In this way the models become predictive, the models can be used to safely identify operating mechanism and the findings can be extrapolated to new conditions. He has successfully developed such basic models for

• Dislocation creep covering low to high stresses (including power law break down)
• Solid solution hardening during creep
• Precipitation hardening during creep
• Influence of prior cold work on the creep life
• Primary and tertiary creep
• Initiation and growth of creep cavities
• Development of cell and subgrain dislocation structure

Many of these efforts are still unique. He has about 500 publications including a recent book that is freely downloadable:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-49507-6

Invited Lecture: Modelling of creep deformation and damage with high precision