Metal forming and modelling (includes SmartForming)
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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
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)
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
Zhusheng Shi
Keywords:
- Metal forming, creep age forming, extrusion, and materials modelling
- Solid state AM
- Process and heat treatment
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