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failure before components are built? We invite applications for a fully funded PhD project to develop microstructure-aware simulation models for fatigue and damage prediction in turbine wheels. Working in
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, enabling early detection of damage. Renewable Energy: Rapid, optimized design of wind turbine blades and structures for greener energy. Microstructures: Accurate, efficient analysis of devices like MEMS
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overseas candidates, starting in 2026. Successful applicants will investigate the relationships between processing, microstructure, and properties of metals through combined macro- and micro-mechanical
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their microstructure and local electronic properties with sub-molecular precision, the project aims to establish direct structure–function correlations and uncover the mechanisms that govern stability and charge
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greater stress. The understanding of the relation between the material microstructure – grain structure, grain orientations, defects – and the in-service performance of the wheel is limited at present
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strong background in physical metallurgy, materials science or chemistry is essential and experience in casting, heat treatment, microstructural characterisation, differential scanning calorimetry and
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for next-generation gas turbines. These geometries pose manufacturing challenges, particularly regarding heat transfer, microstructure evolution, and defect prevention. Building on recent doctoral research
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to overcome tritium permeation, with the following objectives: Uncover the mechanisms driving hydrogen penetration. Evaluate the processes of different sites as a function of surface chemistry, microstructure
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development of high strength aluminium alloys designed to provide better performance compared with existing alloys. The properties of this alloy depend on careful control of the microstructure, in particular
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) and hydrogen (H) – which can synergistically modify the microstructure development in materials [5]. This PhD will reveal the key irradiation-induced microstructure phenomenon in RAFM welds using in