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Studentships and scholarships

Metallic Materials

DTC Projects

• Four-year PhD in Materials Engineering with Enhanced Scholarship – Ten awards available

EngD Projects

• Mechanistic underpinning of the Empirically Derived Charpy Fracture Toughness Master Curve

• Residual stress characterisation in forgings for aeroengine application

PhD Projects

Spotlight PhD Studentship

An opportunity has arisen for exceptional graduates interested in doing a PhD in advanced metallurgy. The PhD project aims to characterise and study the microstructural development during forging of nickel base superalloys used by the aerospace industry. The project will make extensive use of the University's suite of state of the art characterisation equipment and advanced testing facilities to simulate the forging of these materials and help develop models of microstructure evolution.

Closing Date for Applications: 30th November 2011

For full details please download the PDF.

• Microstructure evolution during forging Nickel-base superalloys

 

• Advanced Wrought Magnesium Alloys

• Deformation and Damage Nucleation in Duplex Stainless Steels

• Deformation mechanisms in polycrystalline material studied by using Diffraction Contrast Tomography

• Deformation mechanisms in Two-Phase Titanium Alloys

• Flow forming of aeroengine materials

• Friction Joining Dissimilar Materials in Fuel Efficient Transport Applications (2 projects)

• Generation of Microstructure Gradients to Control Local Strain Distributions in Superplastic Forming

• High resolution imaging in 3D by X-ray tomography

• In-situ observation of short stress corrosion crack behaviour

• The Mechanical Properties of Nanowires

• Microstructure Control in Additive Manufacture with Titanium Alloys for Aerospace Applications

• Microstructural Evolution during Friction Stir Welding of Aerospace Aluminium Alloys

• Modelling Microstructural Evolution During Friction Stir Welding

• Nanomachining to measure stresses at the micron-scale

• Oxide Fracture in Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking (PERFORM 60)

• Residual stress and microstructural characterisation of zirconium oxide layers

• Texture and Microstructure Control in laminated Aluminium alloy Automotive Sheet Produced by the 'Fusion' Process

• Variant Selection in Titanium Alloys

Contact

For further information about PhD studentships and scholarships in the School of Materials, please contact our Postgraduate Team.