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BEng(Hons), MSc, PhD

Sarinova Simandjuntak was graduated and gained her PhD from Imperial College London. Her specialist areas include defect and life assessment, root cause failure analysis, fitness-for-Service & Risk-Based Engineering. Her expertise has been built up from involving in many projects and development work in an industry prior to her appointment at the University of Portsmouth. Some of the projects/development work she was involved in are: software development of Risk Based Management (RBM) and Defect assessment, development of Lifing Procedure for high temperature power plant life assessment, electronic atlas of ageing power plant microstructures, failure analysis tool, and cyclic capability study for HRSG, CCGT and Co-Generation plants. Her current research area is on life assessment and monitoring external and internal oxidation of high temperature tubing.

Teaching

• Advance Materials
• Integrated Engineering Group Business
• Product Analysis / Material Selection
• Solid Mechanics and Dynamics

Publications

• S Simandjuntak, A Shibli. “Practical use of defect assessment procedures for industrial component integrity assessment”. Materials at High Temperature (MAHT), Vo. 28, No. 3, 2011.
• AH Yaghi, TH Hyde, AA Becker, W Sun, G Hilson, S Simandjuntak, PEJ Flewitt, MJ Pavier, DJ Smith. “Measuring and modelling residual stresses in butt welded P91 steel pipe including effects of phase transformations”. Energy Materials, Vol 4. No. 3. 2009.
• AH Yaghi, T Hyde, AA Becker, W Sun, G Hilson, S Simandjuntak, M Pavier, D Smith. “A comparison between measured and modelled residual stresses in a circuferentially butt-welded P91 steel pipe”. International Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 132, Issue 1, February 2010.
• G. Hilson, S. Simandjuntak, P. Flewitt, K. Hallam, M. Pavier, D. Smith. “Spatial variation of residual stresses in a welded pipe for high temperature applications”. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, Vo. 86, Issue 11, November 2009, pp. 748-756.
• Martyn Pavier, David Smith, Nova Simandjuntak, Hassan Alizadeh. “Predicting fatigue crack growth in aerospace alloys: Including the effect of plasticity induced closure”. Engineering integrity, 21 (2007), pp. 6-9.

Current research

Sarinova has been awarded a grant to support a PhD Studentship for a research project entitled: “Modelling of Internal Oxidation for Life Assessment and Monitoring of High Temperature Steam Tubes”. The project starts in October 2012.

For further information about the project, please visit www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/eng/research/phdstudentship/