Ti-6Al-4V alloys manufactured by selective laser melting (SLM)

• Effect of SLM processing parameters and subsequent heat treatment on microstructure and texture.
• Simulation of the SLM process and the diffusion in heat treatment.

SLM stainless steel 316L lattice structures

• Constitutive equation of individual SLM struts in the lattice.
• FE modelling of deformation and failure behaviour for the design and optimisation of lattices.

Micromechanism for the high rate behaviour of Ti-6Al-4V alloys

The 3D interaction between porosity and fatigue crack evolution in cast aluminium alloys

Open-cell Inconel foams

• The slurry coating technique developed to manufacture the open-cell foam.
• Effect of slurry composition (Φ) on microstructure and mechanical properties.
• Unit cell size effect on the sound absorption capability.

Closed-cell magnesium foams

• Unit cell homogeneity enhanced by the improved thermal stability during foaming.
• Strain rate dependent fracture mechanisms related to rate sensitivity of bulk properties.

Syntactic foams

• The 3D real time failure process in cenosphere epoxy syntactic foams.
• FE modelling of the effect of cenosphere volume fraction for virtual design of the foam.
• Strain rate dependent failure mechanism in 3D.

Carbon fibre reinforced polymeric (CFRP) laminates [+45/-45/0]2s

• Statistical analysis and prediction of flexural fatigue life.
• Characterisation and quantification of 3D fatigue damage by x-ray tomography.

Multiscale failure phenomena in armour ceramics

• Voronoi cell finite element modelling of the intergranular fracture mechanism in polycrystalline alumina.
• SHPB tests and FE modelling of dynamic failure and fracture mechanism in alumina.

Multiscale, through-process modelling to predict the fatigue life of cast aluminium alloy components

• Simulating the microstructure, and residual stress in each processing stage.
• Prediction of the fatigue life of Al alloy wheel by linking each simulation.