Materials engineering for arts conservation: effect of environmental control

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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

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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

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Imperial College London