Dr Joe Cavallaro

I started my full time employment at ACeSSS in January 2008. As seen from my CV (attached hopefully!), between the years of 1999 and 2007 I was employed by CSIRO’s Division of Infrastructure Technologies where I held the positions of Team Leader (2003-2005) and Deputy Team Leader (2005-2007). While at CSIRO, my duties were mainly focused on team management and leadership roles as well as industrially sponsored research projects. I have been supervising three post graduate students: Xu Ning, Rong Fang and Anaand Chandra. Over the last 18 months, I have contributed to a variety of projects including the recently awarded ARC Linkage Grant “ Enhanced pigment weathering resistance by coating with high dielectric ceramic” in which I am a CI.

• Materials engineering
• Surface engineering
• Steel metallurgy and thermal processing

Member ofthe ASM

PhD. awarded in 1995 by the University of South Australia Ph.D. programme sponsored by a local gear manufacturer and financed by Postgraduate Industry Research Awards at the Gartrell School of Mining, Metallurgy and Applied Geology. Title of thesis: "Fatigue Properties of Carburised Gear Steels". This project dealt specifically with the metallurgy of carbon rich diffusion layers in low alloy steels and their resistance to crack growth. This work consisted of a systematic investigation into the effects of case depth, cryogenic treatment, and residual stress distributions (developed from both thermal treatments of the gears and from a glass bead peening process) on the fatigue properties (both bending and contact) of carburised gears. The relevant recommendations were implemented by industry on their production processes resulting in increases in efficiencies which led to significant cost savings.

• Surface engineering for tribilogical applications
• High temperature synthesis
• Synchrotron based micro diffraction

Smart St Clair R. Arora P.S., Stevenson M., Kawashima N., Cavallaro G.P., Ming H., Skinner W.M.:" New Approaches to Metal-Ceramic and Bioceramic Interfacial Bonding” in “Ceramic interfaces : properties and applications “ Roger St C. Smart and Janusz Nowotny London: IOM Communications , 1998 ISBN: 1-86125-064-9

Wilks T.P., Cavallaro G.P., and Strafford K.N.,:” Fatigue of Surface-Hardened Gears”, chapter 18 in “Surface Engineering-Processes and Applications” (ed. K.N. Strafford, R.St.C. Smart, I. Sare and C. Subramanian), Technomic, 1995.ISBN 1566761549

Palmer R., Gao. K., Green L. Cavallaro G.P.:” "Pressure infiltrated syntactic foams-process development and mechanical properties". Materials Science and Engineering A. Volume 464, Issues1-2, August 2007, p. 85-92.

S. Gredelj, S. Kumar, A.R. Gerson and G.P. Cavallaro, Radio Frequency Nitriding of Aluminium at Higher Power Levels, Thin Solid Films, 515, 1480-1485 (2006).

Gredelj S.,. Gerson A.R, Kumar S. and Cavallaro G.P, Inductively coupled plasma nitriding of aluminium, Applied Surface Science, 199, 183-194 (2002)

Gredelj S., Gerson A.R., Kumar S. and. Cavallaro G.P, Plasma nitriding and in situ characterisation of aluminium, Applied Surface Science, 199, 234-247 (2002)

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Materials Engineering

• Surface engineering
• Gear performance
• Steel metallurgy
• Fatigue and wear