Catrin Davies

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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)

Paul Hooper

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Keywords:

• Advanced manufacturing, alloy development, welding, residual stress
• Sandwich structures, foams and lattices, laminated glass, auxetics
• Blast, impact, high strain-rate characterisation, Hopkinson Bar, Taylor Test
• Process-microstructure-performance, in-situ monitoring/inspection, simulation, process control, new process development, material development
• Digital twins, residual stress and defect prediction

Jun Jiang

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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

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• Manufacturing for lightweight hydrogen storages
• Process development
• Materials and process modelling
• Solid state additive manufacturing

Zhusheng Shi

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Keywords:

• Metal forming, creep age forming, extrusion, and materials modelling
• Solid state AM
• Process and heat treatment