Mary Wells

Mary Wells is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. She is also the Associate Dean of Outreach in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Professor Wells’ research focuses on the development and manufacturing of advanced metallic products used in the transportation sector. This involves developing mathematical models of the manufacturing processes used to make the metallic products, as well as understanding the microstructure and property changes that occur in the material. A materials final properties and structure depend on the process or manufacturing history such as thermal and deformation conditions. The mathematical models developed help manufacturers design casting and deformation processes that optimize a metal’s microstructure.

Professor Wells and her colleagues are working on the development of new processes to create laminate or clad metallic products via casting or deformation. The product resulting from these process are ones where the products surface will have different properties from its core, for example, a surface that is designed for corrosion and a core that is tailored for strength.

• Process Modelling
• Hot Deformation Of Metallic Materials
• Casting Of Light Metals
• Boiling Water Heat Transfer
• Microstructure/Processing Models
• Automotive
• Digital Factories
• Lightweight Materials
• Structural Crashworthiness

• 1996, Doctorate, Metals and Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia
• 1987, Bachelor's, Metallurgical Engineering, McGill University

• ME 340 - Manufacturing Processes
• ME 738 - Special Topics in Materials

• Wei, Guo-bing and Peng, Xiao-dong and Hu, Fa-ping and Hadadzadeh, Amir and Yan, YANG and Xie, Wei-dong and Wells, Mary A, Deformation behavior and constitutive model for dual-phase Mg--Li alloy at elevated temperatures, Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 26(2), 2016, 508 - 518
• Hadadzadeh, Amir and Wells, Mary A and Javaid, Amjad, Warm and Hot Deformation Behavior of As-Cast ZEK100 Magnesium Alloy, Experimental Mechanics, 56(2), 2016, 259 - 271
• Mahmoodkhani, Yahya and Wells, Mary A, Co-extrusion process to produce Al--Mg eutectic clad magnesium products at elevated temperatures, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 232, 2016, 175 - 183
• Di Ciano, Massimo and Weckman, DC and Wells, MA, Development of an Analog System to Simulate Interface Formation During Fusion™ Casting, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 47(2), 2016, 905 - 919
• Wei, Guobing and Mahmoodkhani, Yahya and Peng, Xiaodong and Hadadzadeh, Amir and Xu, Tiancai and Liu, Junwei and Xie, Weidong and Wells, Mary A, Microstructure evolution and simulation study of a duplex Mg--Li alloy during Double Change Channel Angular Pressing, Materials & Design, 90, 2016, 266 - 275
• Mahmoodkhani, Yahya and Wells, Mary A and Poole, Warren J and Grajales, Lina and Parson, Nick, The Development of Grain Structure During Axisymmetric Extrusion of AA3003 Aluminum Alloys, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 46(12), 2015, 5920 - 5932
• Scherer, Martin and Wells, Mary, Designing Age Appropriate Engineering Outreach Activities, Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, 2015
• Grauer, SJ and Caron, EJFR and Chester, NL and Wells, MA and Daun, KJ, Investigation of melting in the Al--Si coating of a boron steel sheet by differential scanning calorimetry, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 216, 2015, 89 - 94
• Mieske, Joel and Scherer, Martin and Wells, Mary, Cultivating High School Leaders through Engineering and Science, Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, 2015
• Di Ciano, Massimo and Caron, EJFR and Weckman, DC and Wells, MA, Interface Formation During Fusion™ Casting of AA3003/AA4045 Aluminum Alloy Ingots, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 46(6), 2015, 2674 - 2691
• Shi, Cangji and Daun, Kyle J and Wells, Mary A, Spectral emissivity characteristics of the Usibor® 1500P steel during austenitization in argon and air atmospheres, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 91, 2015, 818 - 828
• Wei, Guobing and Peng, Xiaodong and Hadadzadeh, Amir and Mahmoodkhani, Yahya and Xie, Weidong and Yang, Yan and Wells, Mary A, Constitutive modeling of Mg--9Li--3Al--2Sr--2Y at elevated temperatures, Mechanics of Materials, 89, 2015, 241 - 253
• Hadadzadeh, A and Wells, MA, Inverse and centreline segregation formation in twin roll cast AZ31 magnesium alloy, Materials Science and Technology, 31(14), 2015, 1715 - 1726
• Wells, Mary A and Hadadzadeh, Amir, Twin Roll Casting (TRC) of Magnesium Alloys-Opportunities and Challenges., Materials Science Forum, 2014
• Caron, Etienne JFR and Pelayo, Rosa E Ortega and Baserinia, Amir R and Wells, Mary A and Weckman, David C and Barker, Simon and Gallerneault, Mark, Direct-Chill Co-Casting of AA3003/AA4045 Aluminum Ingots via Fusion™ Technology, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 45(3), 2014, 975 - 987
• Bardelcik, Alexander and Worswick, Michael J and Wells, Mary A, The influence of martensite, bainite and ferrite on the as-quenched constitutive response of simultaneously quenched and deformed boron steel--Experiments and model, Materials & Design, 55, 2014, 509 - 525
• Hadadzadeh, Amir and Wells, Mary A and Jayakrishnan, Vignesh, Development of a mathematical model to study the feasibility of creating a clad AZ31 magnesium sheet via twin roll casting, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 73(1-4), 2014, 449 - 463
• Mahmoodkhani, Y and Wells, Mary A and Grajales, Lina and Poole, Warren J and Parson, Nick C, Material Flow and Grain Deformation During Extrusion., Materials Science Forum, 2014
• Mahmoodkhani, Yahya and Wells, Mary A and Parson, Nick and Poole, WJ, Numerical modelling of the material flow during extrusion of aluminium alloys and transverse weld formation, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 214(3), 2014, 688 - 700
• Colley, Leo J and Wells, Mary A and Poole, Warren J, Microstructure--yield strength models for heat treatment of Al--Si--Mg casting alloys II: modelling microstructure and yield strength evolution, Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 53(2), 2014, 138 - 150
• Etienne, J and Caron, R and Rosa, E and Pelayo, Ortega and Baserinia, Amir R and Wells, Mary A and Weckman, David C and Barker, Simon and Gallerneault, Mark and others, Direct-Chill Co-Casting of AA3003/AA4045 Aluminum Ingots via Fusion (TM) Technology, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 45(3), 2014
• Caron, Etienne JFR and Daun, Kyle J and Wells, Mary A, Experimental heat transfer coefficient measurements during hot forming die quenching of boron steel at high temperatures, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 71, 2014, 396 - 404
• Colley, LJ and Wells, MA and Poole, WJ, Microstructure--strength models for heat treatment of Al--Si--Mg casting alloys I: microstructure evolution and precipitation kinetics, Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 53(2), 2014, 125 - 137
• Mahmoodkhani, Yahya and Wells, Mary and Parson, Nick and Jowett, Chris and Poole, Warren, Modeling the formation of transverse weld during billet-on-billet extrusion, Materials, 7(5), 2014, 3470 - 3480
• Hadadzadeh, Amir and Wells, Mary A and Jung, In-Ho, Scale-up modeling of the twin roll casting process for AZ31 magnesium alloy, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 16(4), 2014, 468 - 478
• Hadadzadeh, Amir and Wells, Mary A, Mathematical modeling of thermo-mechanical behavior of strip during twin roll casting of an AZ31 magnesium alloy, Journal of Magnesium and Alloys, 1(2), 2013, 101 - 114
• Baserinia, Amir R and Caron, Etienne JFR and Wells, Mary A and Weckman, David C and Barker, Simon and Gallerneault, Mark, A numerical study of the direct-chill co-casting of aluminum ingots via fusion™ technology, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 44(4), 2013, 1017 - 1029
• Du, Q and Poole, WJ and Wells, MA and Parson, NC, Microstructure evolution during homogenization of Al--Mn--Fe--Si alloys: Modeling and experimental results, Acta Materialia, 61(13), 2013, 4961 - 4973
• Hadadzadeh, Amir and Wells, Mary, Mathematical Modeling of the Effect of Roll Diameter on the Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of Twin Roll Cast AZ31 Magnesium Alloy Strips, Magnesium Technology 2013, 2013, 371 - 375
• Franco, GA and Wells, MA and Militzer, M, Effect of nozzle configuration on cooling of a hot moving steel plate, Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 2013
• Hadadzadeh, A and Wells, MA, Thermal fluid mathematical modelling of twin roll casting (TRC) process for AZ31 magnesium alloy, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 26(4), 2013, 228 - 238
• Caron, Etienne and Daun, Kyle J and Wells, Mary A, Experimental characterization of heat transfer coefficients during hot forming die quenching of boron steel, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 44(2), 2013, 332 - 343
• Shi, CJ and Daun, KJ and Wells, MA, Effect of Heating Atmosphere on the Spectral Emissivity of the Usibor® 1500P Steel During Austenitization, ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, January 2015
• Poole, Warren J and Wells, Mary A and Azizi-Alizamini, Hamid and Parson, Nick C, Through process modelling of extrusion for AA3xxx alloys, Materials Science Forum, January 2014, 682 - 690
• Chester, NL and Wells, MA and Daun, KJ, Experimental measurements of spectral emissivity of Al-Si coated steel blanks undergoing rapid heating, ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, January 2014
• Caron, Etienne and Daun, Kyle J and Wells, Mary A, High Temperature Heat Transfer During Hot Forming Die Quenching of Boron Steel, ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, January 2013