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Senior ProfessorHuijun Li

Senior Professor

School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering

Orcid identifier0000-0002-2896-3867
  • Senior Professor
    School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering
  • Associate Dean (Higher Degree Research)
    School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering
  • +61 2 4221 8197
  • University of Wollongong, Engineering and Information Sciences, Northfields Ave, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The effect of welding thermal cycles on microstructure and mechanical properties of Zircaloy-4
Nuclear-material interaction research (neutron irradiation, neutron diffraction, positron life time spectroscopy, etc)
National and International safeguards and security research (anti-terrorism research)
Research on CRC for light metals
Creep properties of P91 and P92 steel welds
Prequalifying emergency welding (temper bead welding)
Integrity of high energy piping (CRC project)
Coatings for high temperature steam valve spindles (CRC project)
Synroc for immobilising nuclear waste
Mechanised girth welding, (CRC project)
Welding galvanised steel, (CRC project)
Hot cracking in high strength cellulosic electrode weld metal, (CRC project)
Electric resistance welding of high strength pipe line, (CRC project)
Transverse cracking in submarine steel weld metal, (CRC project)
The application of shape memory couplings for high pressure fuel pipe, (CRC project)
Hydrogen induced embrittlement in metallic materials
High entropy alloys
Life estimation of welded pressure equipment, (CRC project)
High productivity welding of stainless steels, including duplex stainless steels, ferritic stainless steels and austenitic stainless steels, characterising corrosion failure of welding joints, (CRC project)
Cold cracking of HSLA pipe line steels weldment, including X70 and X80,, (CRC project)
Investigation of pipeline corrosion in Northern China oil fields, iron based shape memory alloy pipe joints have been developed for oil pipelines.
Study of Fe-Mn-Si based shape memory alloys, the purpose of this research was to develop new corrosion resistant shape memory alloys for commercial application (ARC project)

FUNDING

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  • OTHER RESEARCH PROJECT
    Recovery of Lithium using ball milling technique under controlled atmosphere
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028
    People funded by this grant:
  • OTHER RESEARCH PROJECT
    In-situ microstructural evolution of glass-ceramics for the immobilisation of sulphate-rich nuclear wastes
    UOW2 Apr 2025 - 1 Apr 2026
    People funded by this grant:
  • PROGRAMME
    Novel Microstructure Control in Welded Joints of High-Frequency Welded Pipes for Enhanced Sour Service Performance
    Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development Centre21 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2028
    People funded by this grant:
  • PROGRAMME
    ARC Training Centre for Battery Recycling
    Australian Research Council16 Dec 2024 - 15 Dec 2029
    People funded by this grant:
  • PROJECT GRANT
    Advanced refractory alloy components for aerospace and energy sectors
    Australian Research Council1 Feb 2024 - 30 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
  • OTHER RESEARCH PROJECT
    UOW Engineering Student Practicum in China with Focus on Electronics and Information Engineering
    New Colombo Plan1 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
  • PROGRAMME
    A BDI Agent Platform for Smart Modelling and Integrated Simulation of Production Scheduling, Cargo Loading, and Logistics in the Steel Industry
    Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development Centre1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
  • SEED FUNDING
    Advanced Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries: Enhancing Performance and Safety
    University of Wollongong1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
  • INFRASTRUCTURE
    In-situ nanomechanical testing for materials under extreme environments
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Li H,
    • Li H,
    • Huang Z,
    • Yang L
  • INFRASTRUCTURE
    In-situ nanomechanical testing suite for materials under extreme environments
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Li H
  • PROGRAMME
    Investigating Solidification Defects and Improving the Quality of Nitrogen-Containing Steel using Electric Furnace Smelting and Continuous Casting
    Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development Centre1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
  • INFRASTRUCTURE
    Benchtop Scanning Electron Microscope
    University of Wollongong1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
  • PREVIOUS (NON-WOLLONGONG) GRANT
    Improved Heavy haul insulated Rail Joints (IRJ)
    Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    University of Wollongong
  • SEED FUNDING
    Multi-Modal Defect Detection During Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
    University of Wollongong1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
  • SEED FUNDING
    Novel additive manufacturing approaches for 3D synthesis of superalloys
    University of Wollongong1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Li H
  • PROGRAMME
    ARC Research Hub for Australian Steel Innovation
    Australian Research Council1 Jul 2021 - 31 Dec 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • PREVIOUS (NON-WOLLONGONG) GRANT
    RAM Data Railway reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) data collection and management
    Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation (ACRI)1 Mar 2020 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    University of Wollongong
  • INFRASTRUCTURE
    Australian Stress Engineering Facility
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Li H,
    • Li H
  • PROJECT GRANT
    Design of Cost-effective Compositionally Complex Alloys
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Li H,
    • Li H
  • OTHER GRANT
    Development of molten corrosion resistant and radiation damage tolerant high-entropy alloys (HEA) and HEA coatings by additive manufacturing for applications in MSR systems
    University of Wollongong1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wang Z,
    • Li H
  • SEED FUNDING
    Synthesising improved ultra-high temperatures ceramics
    Defence Innovation Network (DIN)1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wexler D,
    • Wexler D,
    • Li H
  • PREVIOUS (NON-WOLLONGONG) GRANT
    9.74 - Steel Characterisation and grade selection for future steels
    DMTC1 Jan 2019 - 1 Jul 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Van Duin S,
    • Li H,
    • Carpenter K
    University of Wollongong
  • PROGRAMME
    Analysis and solutions of pipeline girth weld failure under the longitudinal stress due to strength mis-matching
    Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development Centre1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
  • OTHER RESEARCH PROJECT
    BlueScope: Welded Beam Line Automation and Welding Analysis
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
  • INFRASTRUCTURE
    The 6th Conference of the Combined Australian Materials Societies (CAMS 2018)
    New South Wales Department of Industry1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Li H