
Iikka Virkkunen
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor
T212 Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Professor
Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Professor
Materials to Products
Research topics include materials degradation and non-destructive testing. In materials degradation, focus is on energy materials (nuclear, in particular), fatigue, thermal fatigue and residual stresses. Recent research focuses on measuring and understanding weld residual stresses in complex nuclear welds, dissimilar metal welds and weld repairs and their possible relaxation during in-service use.
In non-destructive testing, the research focus is on reliability assessment of various NDT methods, probability of detection determination and advanced NDT data processing.
Full researcher profile
Email
iikka.virkkunen@aalto.fi
Phone number
+358503475557
Areas of expertise
Materials, Residual stresses, Probability of detection, NDT, Fatigue, 216 Materials engineering, Metals
Research groups
- Materials to Products, Adjunct Professor
Publications
Gonçalo Sorger, Iikka Virkkunen, Christer Söderholm
2025
NDT and E International
Laura Sirkiä, Siddharth Suman, Pentti Arffman, Noora Hytönen, Iikka Virkkunen
2024
Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
Topias Tyystjärvi, Oskari Jessen-Juhler, Tuomas Koskinen, Iikka Virkkunen
2024
61st Annual Conference of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, NDT 2024, in conjunction with Materials Testing Exhibition, MT 2024
Topias Tyystjärvi, Peter Fridolf, Anders Rosell, Iikka Virkkunen
2024
Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation
N. Hytönen, Y. Ge, Z. Que, S. Lindqvist, P. Nevasmaa, I. Virkkunen, P. Efsing
2023
Journal of Nuclear Materials
Tuomas Koskinen, Topias Tyystjärvi, Oskari Jessen-Juhler, Iikka Virkkunen
2023
60th Annual Conference of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, NDT 2023
Iikka Virkkunen, Tuomas Koskinen, Oskar Siljama
2023
Nuclear Engineering and Design
Marija Bertovic, Iikka Virkkunen
2022
Handbook of Nondestructive Evaluation 4.0
Noora Hytönen, Zaiqing Que, Sebastian Lindqvist, Jari Lydman, Yanling Ge, Iikka Virkkunen, Ulla Ehrnstén, Paavo Rautala, Pål Efsing, Björn Forssgren
2022
Heikki Keinänen, Juha Kuutti, Noora Hytönen, Pekka Nevasmaa, Caitlin Huotilainen, Iikka Virkkunen, Suprit Bhusare, Aloshious Lambai, Gaurav Mohanty
2022
ASME 2022 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference : Materials and Fabrication