Find out more about the research expertise of staff in our division:
Research expertise by staff member
Daniel Balint
Keywords:
- Hydrogen in metals for nuclear and storage applications (e.g. delayed hydride cracking, hydrogen enhanced plasticity)
- Dislocation plasticity in ionic crystals (as battery materials)
- Mechanical recyling of plastics
- Multilayer paint film evolution and failure under hygrothermal cycling
- Irradiation hardening, strain softening and fracture in in zirconium alloys for PWR fuel pin cladding
- Semi-analytical crack network modelling, integrity of auxetics, failure of thermal barrier and wear coatings
- Elastodynamic discrete dislocation plasticity
- Fatigue in titanium alloys, lifetime prediction of thermal barrier coatings
- Discrete dislocation plasticity, size effects and defect-solute interactions
- Metal forming methods and associated materials modelling
- Environmental barrier coatings
Bamber Blackman
Keywords:
- Recycling of plastics, cost advantages for joining techniques, repair using adhesively bonded solutions
- Fracture mechanics and structural integrity of bonded joints, lightweight structures, laminates etc.
- Impact and high strain rate fracture properties of lightweight materials
- Use of fracture mechanics to guide performance increases
- Fatigue and durability of lightweight materials and structures
Research expertise by staff member
Maria Charalambides
Keywords:
- Mechanical recycling of plastic packaging
- Environmental fatigue in mulitlayered works of art
- Mechanical behaviour and modelling of adhesion, foams, particulate composites
- Material modelling and mechanical characterisation of soft polymeric solids and comsposites including rheology and high rate properties
- Micromechanics models of particulate composites, peeling of coatings, cohesive zone models for interfaces
- Rain erosion of wind turbine blade coatings
- Experimental and numerical modelling of industrial food manufacturing processes as well as oral and gastric processes
- Sustainable food manufacturing
Catrin Davies
Keywords:
- Fracture, fatigue, welding, residual stress, creep, creep crack growth
- Microstructure prediction during forming, quenching
- Process simulation, fracture analysis, resiidual stress prediction and measurement, material property characterisation
- Optimisation of welding, quenching, rolling of metals (includes digital twins and residual stress prediction)
Research expertise by staff member
John Dear
Keywords:
- Life-time assessment/damage modelling
- Impact/damage modelling
- High-rate properties/damage development
- Damage development
Paul Hooper
Keywords:
- Advanced manufacturing, alloy development, welding, residual stress
- Sandwich structures, foams and lattices, laminated glass, auxetics
- Blast, impact, high strain-rate characterisation, Hopkinson Bar, Taylor Test
- Process-microstructure-performance, in-situ monitoring/inspection, simulation, process control, new process development, material development
- Digital twins, residual stress and defect prediction
Research expertise by staff member
Jun Jiang
Keywords:
- Robotic flexible rolling for incremental forming large sheet components
- Solid state diffusion/pressure bonding dissimilar metals
- Thermal cycle fatigue of chips or DB joints
- In-situ thermal-mechancial testing and characterization of dislocation density using EBSD
- Superplastic forming modelling with Professor Jianguo Lin
- Hybrid AM+radial forging
- Diffusion bonding process and RS prediction
Jianguo Lin
Keywords:
- Manufacturing for lightweight hydrogen storages
- Process development
- Materials and process modelling
- Solid state additive manufacturing
John and Kamran
Monica Marinescu
Keywords:
- Hydrogen and fuel cells, energy storage, carbon utilisation
- Lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors, next generation batteries, electrochemical synthesis
Gregory Offer
Keywords:
- Fuel cells, electrochemistry of reaction, systems engineering, balance of plant
- Batteries, lithium ion, next generation, thermal management, degradation modelling, battery pack design, novel experiments
- Circular economy for batteries, recycling, second life, lifecycle analysis, technoeconomic analysis
Liliang and Maria
Yatish Patel
Keywords:
- Hydrogen and fuel cells, energy storage, carbon utilisation
- Lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors, next generation batteries, electrochemical synthesis
Soraia Pimenta
Keywords:
- Recycled composites. Recycled plastics. Life-cycle analysis
- Fibre-reinforced composites: continuous (high-performance), discontinuous (high-volume), recycled (sustainability)
- Interface modelling
- Fibre-reinforced composites: continuous (high-performance), discontinuous (high-volume), recycled (sustainability)
Monica and Nasrin
Zhusheng Shi
Keywords:
- Metal forming, creep age forming, extrusion, and materials modelling
- Solid state AM
- Process and heat treatment
Ambrose Taylor
Keywords:
- Post-consumer recycling, mechanical recycling, adhesive repairs
- Consolidants & fills, cracking, fracture, effects of RH and light
- Fibre composite fracture & fatigue, syntactic foams, bonded structures
- High-rate properties, fracture of polymers, adhesives & composites
- Toughening, analytical modelling of toughness
- Lifetime prediction & durability of adhesives & composites, coating durability
- Microstructural characterisation
- Coil-coating
- Ceramic particle modified polymers, toughening polymers using ceramic particles
- Food processing
Paul and Soraia
Huizhi Wang
Keywords:
- Electrochemical science and engineering (batteries, fuel cells, electrolysers), transport phenomena, microfluidics and nanofluidics
- Multiphysics modeling, high-throughput experimentation
Liliang Wang
Keywords:
- Mettery of things (MOT)
- Metal Forming technologies; SmartForming; Manufacturing process simulation and optimisations; Tribology in metal forming; Advanced material characterisation; Digital characteristics in metal forming; Data guided approaches in manufacturing; Data science in metal forming; Cloud applications in metal forming
- Welding of metals
PhD study
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