Current projects

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

Current Projects

Fionn Dunne

Computational Mechanics Group


Research Areas:

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

Ben Britton

Experimental Micromechanical Characterisation Group

Research Areas:

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

David Dye

Adventures in Alloys Group!


Research Areas:

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

Current Projects_CMG_MW_MSP

Chris Gourlay

Solidification Processing Group

Research areas:

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

Mark Wenman

Nuclear Materials Group

Research areas:

- Computational Mechanics
- Materials Characterisation
- Residual Stress and Structural Integrity

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_BG

Stella Pedrazzini

Environmental Degradation Group

Research areas:

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

Atomic-scale Characterisation Group

Research areas:

- Atom probe tomography
- Precipitation and partitioning in engineering alloys
- Effect of hydrogen in metals

Engineering Alloys

Engineering Alloys