Here you can find descriptions of projects currently being researched within the group:

Current Projects_DD_CG_MSP

Adventures in Alloys Group!

Research Areas:

- Alloy Processing and Solidification
- Residual Stress and Structural Integrity
- Materials Characterisation

Solidification Processing Group

Research Areas:

- Phase Transformations
- Microstructure and defect formation
- Mushy zone mechanics
- X-ray imaging & EBSD

Material Design for Advanced Manufacturing Group

Research Areas:

- Additive manufacturing: designing printable alloys and microstructure
- Architected materials and mechanical meta-materials
- Crystal plasticity modelling
- Fatigue and creep of steels and alloys

Current Projects_SP_MW_NH

Metals Electrochemistry Group

Research Areas:

- Corrosion
- Oxidation
- Reactions of metals with the environment with/without applied stress and/or radiation
Mark Wenman

Nuclear Materials Group

Research Areas:

- Computational Mechanics
- Materials Characterisation
- Residual Stress and Structural Integrity
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Microstructure Engineering Group

Research Areas:

- Additive Manufacturing
- Grain boundaries and interface
- Steels and engineering alloys
- Correlative electron microscopy

Current Projects_AA_TBB_FD

Hydrogen Interactions in Metals Group

Research Areas:
- Green steel
- Hydrogen embrittlement
- Circular economy
- Climate conscious extraction, reduction and processing

Experimental Micromechanical Characterisation Group

Research Areas:

- Mechanics
- Deformation
- Microscopy
- Electron backscatter diffraction
- Crystal plasticity
- Data science

Computational Mechanics Group

Research Areas:

- Micromechanics
- Discrete Dislocation
- Crystal Plasticity
- Fatigue
- Failure
- Sonics for Texture