Our Cohorts

CURRENT COHORTS

2023 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Mostafa Salem	Modelling and simulation of microstructure and defect evolution in Additive Manufacturing	Hector Basoalto-Ibarra	GKN
Tom Cole	In-Situ Tensile Compression Total Scattering Measurements	Lewis Owen	ISIS
Dillon Frith	Development of In-Process NDE Machining Force Feedback Analysis for Titanium Alloy Component Analysis	Martin Jackson	Rolls-Royce
Jack Krohn	Development of a Powder Based Manufacturing Route for Affordable Titanium Aluminide Sheet for Nacelle Engine Applications	Martin Jackson	Boeing
Lucas Cook	Development of the Conform Process to Recycle Titanium Alloy Swarf into Wire for Sustainable Additive Manufacturing Feedstock	Martin Jackson	DSTL
Józef McGowen	Understanding the Machinability of Titanium Alloy Components From a Range of Processing Routes to Inform Tooling Solutions for Next Generation Closed Loop Recycling Technologies	Martin Jackson	Sandvik
Richard Thomson	Real time optical monitoring to understand railway rail wear and its dependence on steel metallurgy	David Fletcher	British Steel
Grey Bell	Increasing the Use of Scrap Steel - Challenges and Opportunities	Richard Thackray	Sustain
Kate Bowers	Development of new copper based wires for green energy sector from recycled feedstocks using continuous extrusion	Martin Jackson	Wieland
Grace Fidler	Retained Austenite Decomposition, and its Effect on Microstructure and Properties in Low-Alloy Steels.	Ed Pickering	Rolls-Royce
Olivia Broadbent-Clark	Improving Tolerance of Aluminium Alloys to Impurity Elements	Joe RObson	Novelis
Matthew Williamson	Environmentally Assisted Cracking of High Strength Al Alloys – Transition from Initiation to Sustainable Cracking	Tim Burnett	Airbus
Xavier Ojeda	Thermo mechanical effects on Ti deformation mechanisms in cold dwell	Joao Fonseca	Rolls-Royce
Eamonn Lawlor	Ti-64 cold dwell fatigue loading - effect of stress concentrations and fatigue crack growth rates	Phil Prangnell	Airbus
Sydney Coates	Understanding the materials performance of additive manufactured stainless steel components in high temperature water	Fabio Scenini	Rolls-Royce
Ramzy Abou-Zeid	X-ray Computer Tomography and Microstructural Characterisation of Additive Structures for Advanced Repair of Aeroengine Components	John Francis	Rolls-Royce
Riccardo Sorrill	Application of In-process monitoring to enhance the quality of alloy parts obtained by additive manufacturing	Adam Boyce
Yvonne Omowunmi-Kayode	Laser texturing of ultrasonic probe tip for enhanced anti-fouling properties		Stryker
Andrea Villano	Investigation of the use of 5G to enhance additive manufacturing processing performance	Denis Dowling
Meric Ikiz	Laser processing for improved surface anti-fouling profile control
Pouya Rajaee	Influence of print processing parameters on the properties of alloy parts obtained using additive manufacturing	Di Nguyen
Ali Geranmayeh	Develop the next generation of nitinol based actuators
Micaela Villa Rosero	Process parameters for improved control of ink production, viscosity, nanoparticle size and phase structure for a flexible solar cell exemplar production
Ajai Sankar	Printing of novel alloy microstructures using additive manufacturing	Mert Celkin

2022 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Aidan Ha	A Digital Twin of abnormally coarse grain structures in critical titanium forgings for military aircraft applications	Joao Fonseca	DSTL
Ciaran Miles	High Entropy Alloy Coatings for Corrosion Protection of Automotive Stamped Steel	Adrian Leyland	Volkswagen
Durga Tilak	Eddy Current Reduction in Automotive Permanent Magnets	Julian Dean	Volkswagen
Joseph Hopkinson	Development of enhanced titanium alloys from recycled powder through the FAST processing route for next generation	Martin Jackson	Rolls Royce
Martin Tse	Alloy development for blue hydrogen steam reformer applications	Katerina Christofidou	Paralloy
Miles Cooke	Effect of Irradiation and Microsegregation on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties on Low-Alloy Steel Welds	Ed Pickering	Rolls Royce
Niels Schreiner	High temperature total scattering studies of metallic systems	Lewis Owen	Diamond Light Source
Philomenah Holladay	Extending rail life through metallurgical understanding of modern rail steels	David Fletcher	Network Rail
Samuel Eka	Datacentric Engineering for Materials and Structures	Norman Paton	Rolls Royce
Samuel Yeates	Low-activation multicomponent alloy development for fusion armour applications	Amy Gandy	UKAEA
Sampreet Rangaswamy	Development and Validation of Thermal Models of the Additive Manufacturing of Nickel Based Alloys	Dermot Brabazon	ANSYS
Mina Sadet Mousavi	Investigation of the use of Additive Manufacturing for the printing of Tantalum	Denis Dowling	Croom Precision Tooling
Saeid Heidarinassab	Abrasive Discs Product Performance Enhancement and Benchmarking and Development of Online Quality Control	Dermot Brabazon	Abcon

2021 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Elif Sen	Heterogeneous case-carburised bearing steel microstructures	Enrique Jimenez-Melero	Timken
Samuel Engel	Microstructural simulation tools for fusion materials	Pratheek Shanthraj	UKAEA
James Sharples	Thermo mechanical effects on Ti deformation mechanisms in cold dwell	Joao Fonseca
Mehreen Khan	Comparing Hydrogen Transport and Trapping Mechanisms: Controlling Embrittlement as a Function of Charging Method in Steels and Nickel Alloys	Brian Connolly	Element
Tom Hughes	In-situ loading during irradiation of materials for fusion applications	Ed Pickering	UKAEA
Sian Odell	Novel Zirconium Refined Magnesium Alloys	Joe Robson	Luxfer
Ashutosh Gupta	Advancing Gear Oil Insights - tribofilm and subsurface correlation focusing on ashless versus organometallic chemistries	Allan Matthews	BP
Alex Sloane	Managing microstructure and defect populations in Engineering Alloys	Iain Todd	Boeing
Ben Jolly	Novel analytical methods for assessing local environments in multicomponent systems for nuclear applications	Lewis Owen	ISIS Neutron Facility
Jacob Whittle	Engineering performance and sustainability metrics to drive optimisation of steel in low carbon rail transport networks	David Fletcher.	British Steel
Will Robertson	Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Residual and Critical Elements in Steel:Removal, Recovery and Substitution	Richard Thackray	Tata Steel
Kamila Nowosad	Using Historic Materials Data from Assurance Testing to Optimise Future Manufacturing Processes of High Integrity Components	Dan Cogswell	Element
Dennis Premoli	In-process machining force feedback for titanium alloy digital twins	Martin Jackson	Rolls-Royce
Joshua Taylor	Development of machining digital twins that predict microstructural damage and service life for a range of titanium alloy processing routes	Martin Jackson	Seco Tools AB
Siti Ahmed	Environmental Impact of Alternative Blast Furnace Ironmaking Materials	Richard Thackray	British Steel
Josephine Ryan Murphy	Additive Manufacturing of MP35N alloy tubing and wire	Dermot Brabazon	FW Metals
Theo Mossop	Development of a low-notch sensitive, fatigue resistant titanium alloy for additive manufacturing flow paths	Mert Celikin	STryker
Neha Agarwal	Additive Manufacturing of NiTi stents of various designs	Dermot Brabazon	FW Metals
Ali Shayegh	Simulating extreme metal forming deformations in high-strength steels	Philip Cardiff	NV Bekaert SA, Belgium
Tina Hashemi	Osteoinduction Augmented Magnesium Medical Implants for Skeletal Repair	Nicolas Dunne

2020 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Alex Hanson	Understanding the Effect of Strain on Microstructure Properties and Environmental Degradation of AGR Fuel Cladding	Dirk Engleberg	NNL
Callum Andrew	Effect of vanadium and copper on defect structure generation during neutron irradiation of zirconium-based materials	Philipp Frankel	Westinghouse
Cameron Grant	Integrated Computational-Experimental Study of Microstructurally Short Crack Propagation in AA7xxx alloys	Pratheek Shanthraj	Airbus
Emilios Leonidas	Development of Innovative Instrumentation and Modelling for 21st Century CNC Machining	Jon Wilmott	AMRC
Enn Veikesaar	The evolution of microstructure and toughness in multipass welds that contain acicular ferrite	John Francis	Framatome
Fran Synnott	Developing high Co-containing Ni-based superalloys with improved oxidation behaviour for future jet-engine applications	Kathy Christofidou	Rolls Royce
Henry Boyle	Development of new innovative materials and CNC processing routes	Martin Jackson	Sandvik
Jake Larkin	Irradiation damage and recovery of zirconium-based alloys	Chris Race	Westinghouse
Jamie McGregor	Quantification of damage in heavy metals as investigated through X-ray CT	Tim Burnett	AWE
Joshua Berry	Material and process design for additive manufacturing of hard metals	Kathy Christofidou	Oerlikon
Laura Gonzalez	Crystal Plasticity and Microstructure Modelling for Rolled Aluminium Sheet	Joe Robson	Novelis
Molly Cao	Understanding the interaction of galling and oxidation in hard facing materials	Fabio Scenini	Rolls Royce
Natasha Sweeney Fort	Powder Metallurgical Processing For Graded Alloy Microstructures	Richard Thackray	Johnson Matthey
Oluwawunmi Olukoya	Understanding the interaction between automative silver tracks and lead-free solders	Russell Goodall	Johnson Matthey
Patrick Curran	Understanding micro-texture heterogeneity effects on the micromechanical behaviour of Ti aerospace forgings	Joao Fonseca	Airbus
Sulayman Khan	Development of Advanced High Modulus Steels for Automotive Applications	Eric Palmiere	VW
Alison Clarke	3D printing of continuous stainless steel wire composite parts	Denis Dowling	Bekaret
Mark Swayne	Anticorrosive and anti-fouling surface modification of Pulsed Electric Field electrodes using laser processing	Demot Brabazon	Pro Stainless
Federico Mazzanti	Development of novel numerical methods for analysing metal forming of high-strength steels	Philip Cardiff	Bekaret

2019 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Guy Bowker	Modelling the microstructure evolution during hot working of Ti alloys	Pratheek Santhraj	Airbus
Mike White	Developing a "microstructural fingerprint" of titanium alloys - metallurgy in the information age	Chris Race	Rolls Royce
Huda Al-Jurani	Surface Modification of Metallic Reaction Vessels to Resist Scaling by Calcium Salts	David Lewis	BP
Sakina Rehman	Modelling environmentally assisted cracking in Ni-based superalloys	Pratheek Santhraj	Rolls Royce
Josh Collins	A Comparison of Steels for Nuclear Bolting Applications	Ed Pickering	Rolls Royce
Ashley Scarlett	Small Scale Laboratory to Large Scale Component Manufacture - Scaling of Heat Treatment Behaviour of Low Alloy Steels	Eric Palmiere	Rolls Royce
Elizabeth Davis-Fowell	Development of novel permanent magnet designs for electric vehicle motors	Russell Goodall	VW
Frances Livera	Brazing for Additive Manufacture and Additive Manufacture for Brazing	Russell Goodall	UKAEA
Lucy Farquhar	Development of Laser Powder Bed Fusion process for Complex Concentrated Alloys	Russell Goodall	Boeing
Sam Lister	Development of hybrid advanced manufacturing FAST-forge route for next generation aerospace components	Martin Jackson	Rolls Royce
Xavier Morrel	Development of Novel Nickel Brazing Filler Metals Based on High Entropy Alloys	Russell Goodall	VBC Group
Kavi Sharma	Cladding behaviour of high enrichment and high burn-up nuclear fuel: determining the impact of radiation damage on storage and corrosion	Amy Gandy	NNL
Anesu Nyabadza	Development of high concentration magnesium composite and elemental production, for process quality control and targeted application	Mercedes Vazques	Oriel
Bryan Naab	Fatigue Performance of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V Material	Denis Dowling	Stryker
Josiah Chekotu	Additive Manufacturing (AM) and characterisation of heat exchange component	Dermot Brabazon	Exergyn
Nikoletta Sargioti	3D Printed Medical-Grade Metal-based Microneedles as a Modular Platform for Minimally Invasive Therapeutic Delivery	Nicholas Dunne	pHion

PAST COHORTS

2018 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Kirstie Bruce	Heat Treatment Optimisation of Electron Beam Welded Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels	Ed Pickering	Rolls Royce
Elliot Cooksey-Nash	Tailored Properties in Aluminium Automotive Body Sheet	Phil Prangnell	Primetals
Ryan Euesden	The EAC initiation behavior of 7xxx series aluminium alloys	Tim Burnett	Airbus
Francesco Guarracino	The Effect of Accelerated Ageing of Hybrid-Hot Formed Aluminium Automotive Panels on Corrosion Resistance	Joe Robson	Impression Technologies
Wayne Heatman	The effects of microstructure on the ductility of aerospace titanium alloys	Joao Fonseca	Rolls Royce
Niall Hughes	Novel Aluminium Alloys for Defence Applications	Joe Robson	DSTL
Daniel Jensen	Microstructural Engineering for Ultra High Strength Wire	Mark Rainforth	British Steel
Omer Koc	Irradiation damage in Zr alloys	Michael Preuss
Elaine Livera	Defect Identification and Characterization in Blown Powder Additively Manufactured Parts	Iain Todd	GKN Aerospace
Ziyu Ma	Dynamic Precipitation of Aluminum Alloy during Warm Forming	Joe Robson	Constellium
James Pepper	Computational investigation into SPS for Ti and additional complex alloys for potential use in the aerospace and biomedical sector	Martin Jackson	DSTL
Paul Stavroulakis	Investigation of the elastic properties of Cu-Ni and β-Ti systems using DFT	Russell Goodall	Volkswagen
Mark Taylor	The Performance of Novel Ultra-High-Strength Steels for Future Aerospace Applications	Tim Burnett	Rolls Royce
Paul Twine	The Stability of Triple Junctions	Chris Race
Tongyu Wang	Modelling for Advanced Steel Manufacture	Eric Palmiere	Sheffield Forgemasters
Adam Wilby	Predictive Rail Investigation for Damage Evaluation	David Fletcher	British Steel
Yichao Yao	The modelling of alloy element diffusion between oxides layer and matrix in 7xxx al alloys	Pratheek Shanthraj	Airbus

2017 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Florian Buschek	Tailoring of Material Properties via Microstructure control during Metallic Additive Manufacturing	Iain Todd	GKN Aerospace
Louise Chan	Processing Beta Titanium Alloys in Powder-Based Additive Manufacturing	Iain Todd	GKN Aerospace
Simon Graham	Ore-to-More: Creating new markets for novel low-cost titanium alloys from synthetic rutile	Martin Jackson	Metalysis
Athanasios Gredis	Environmental effect on the integrity of 316 stainless steel in AGR coolant	Fabio Scenini	EDF
Callum Hunt	Chromium-coated Zirconium alloys for Accident Tolerant Fuel Cladding	Michael Preuss	Westinghouse
Philip Kearns	An investigation on the degradation mechanism and optimization design of high temperature abradable coatings	Xiaorong Zhou	Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials
Oliver Levano Blanch	Development of a hybrid solid state joining process – FAST-weld – for next generation aerospace components using dissimilar titanium alloy powders	Martin Jackson	Rolls Royce
Pablo Rodriguez Lago	Evaluation of weld deposited novel iron based hard facings	Mark Rainforth	Rolls Royce
Pawel Stuglik	Developing novel iron-based hard-facing alloys for nuclear applications	Michael Preuss	Rolls Royce
Alex Wilson	Environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) of Ultra-High Strength Steels	Fabio Scenini	Airbus
Ben Wilson	Understanding the Role of Hy	Joe Robson	Airbus

2016 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Sam Armson	The importance of grain nucleation versus growth in the evolution of oxides in Zr alloys	Philipp Frankel	Rolls Royce
Ioannis Bellos	Understanding the Effects of Banded Microstructures in Material Addition Repairs for Aerospace Components	Phil Prangnell	Rolls Royce
Beatriz Fernandez Silva	Investigating the effect of thermomechanical processing on microtexture in Ti834 compressor disc alloy	Martin Jackson	Rolls Royce
Alex Garrett	Simulation of precipitate formation under irradiation in low-alloy pressure vessel steels via novel manufacturing	Chris Race	Rolls Royce
Liam Hardwick	Development of Novel Nickel Brazing Alloys	Russell Goodall	VBC Group
Alistair Lyle	Printability Maps for Additive Manufacture of Nickel Aerospace Component	Iain Todd	GKN Aerospace
Chris Martin	The Effect of Thermomechanical Processing on the Microstructural Evolution of Ni-Based Alloys	Grace Burke	Rolls Royce
Dhinisa Patel	High entropy alloys for fusion: Exploration of novel processing routes and HEA stability in extreme environments	Amy Gandy	CCFE
Daniel Suarez Fernandez	Effect of variation in machining-induced damage in aeroengine high performance materials	Martin Jackson	Rolls Royce

2015 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Alessandro Cattivelli	Mechanisms of underclad intergranular cracking in a reactor pressure vessel steel after post-weld heat treatment	John Francis	Areva
Claudius Dichtl	The role of microstructure on strain localization in near-alpha titanium alloy	Michael Preuss	Rolls Royce and Timet
Shaun Earl	Surface degradation mechanisms in rail steels	Mark Rainforth	British Steel
Robert Howell	Tantalum-based alloys for high heat flux environments	Brad Wynne	Metalysis
Benjamin Jones	The influence of composition and wire drawing on the microstructure and properties of high strength wire rod steels	Mark Rainforth	British Steel
Marta Muniz Mangas	Welding of bainitic rail steels	Eric Palmiere	British Steel
Zaheen Shah	Characterising and modelling precipitation in zirconium alloys	Joe Robson	Westinghouse and Sandvik
Sarah Smyth	Low cost titanium wire for additive manufacturing of defence equipment	Martin Jackson	DSTL
Emmanouil Stavroulakis	Functionally graded components for nuclear applications	Michael Preuss	Rolls Royce
Thomas Woodward	Understanding environment-induced degradation of steels using novel in-situ analytical transmission electron microscopy techniques	Grace Burke	BP

2014 Cohort

Student Name	Project Title	Lead Supervisor	Industrial Partner
Michael Atkinson	Reverse loading in aero-engine relevant alloys	João Quinta da Fonseca	Rolls Royce
Charlotte Boig	Selective laser melting of nickel-base superalloys for turbocharger applications	Iain Todd	Cummins Turbo Technologies
Emily Davison	Processing of material addition repairs for aerospace components	Iain Todd	Rolls Royce
Joseph Fixter	Aluminium alloy development for large scale additive manufacturing of aerospace components	Phil Prangnell	Constellium
Rebecca Jones	The effect of niobium on the microstructural evolution of Zr alloys during proton irradiation	Philipp Frankel	Rolls Royce
Michael Kenyon	Effect of chromium containing dispersoids on microstructure evolution of Al-Mg-Si alloys	Joe Robson	Novelis
Jacob Pop	Investigation into the HOLLOFORM hybrid manufacturing process to produce cylindrical components from dissimilar titanium alloys	Martin Jackson
Bhushan Rakshe	Precipitation and recrystallisation behaviour in microalloyed steels containing dilute Nb additions	Eric Palmiere	CBMM
Nicolas Tankov	Processing of Nb-silicide based alloys	Panos Tsakiropoulos	Rolls Royce
Rhys Thomas	Delayed hydride cracking of Zr LWR cladding with proton irradiation	Philipp Frankel	Rolls Royce
Petit Wiringgalih	The role of oxygen in mitigating pellet-cladding interaction in zirconium alloys	Philipp Frankel

2013 Cohort

Project Title	Industrial Partner
Wear forensics	BP Castrol
Corrosion fatigue cracking in CO2/H2S environments under biaxial stress loading	BP
The effect of proton irradiation on the corrosion of Zr LWR cladding	Rolls Royce
Ore-to-More: Creating new markets for novel low-cost titanium alloys from natural and synthetic rutile	Metalysis
Hydrogen embrittlement in next generation nuclear reactor steels under irradiation
High performance magnesium alloys for aerospace applications	Magnesium Elektron
Processing of Nb-silicide based alloys	Rolls Royce
Control of cosmetic corrosion in aluminium automotive alloys	AkzoNobel
Heat treatment aspects in the production of large forgings	Sheffield Forgemasters and Rolls Royce
Modelling the interaction of alloying elements with irradiation in zirconium nuclear fuel cladding	Rolls Royce
Modelling for high quality heat treatment of large forgings	Sheffield Forgemasters
Predicting damage in corrosion resistant alloys (CRAs) under combined effects of stress and corrosion	BP
Rapid prototyping of new materials and heat treatments for large scale forgings by undertaking microstructure/mechanical property assessment at the correct length scale	Sheffield Forgemasters
Manufacture testing and validation of hybrid ALM components	GKN Aerospace
Direct observation of the movement of the austenite-ferrite interface in steels
The effect of hot working and heat treatment parameters on the microstructure and properties of ZERON 100 super duplex stainless steel forgings	NeoNickel
Understanding the oxidation of zirconium alloys with atomistic simulation

2012 Cohort

Project Title	Industrial Partner
Metallic nanostructures for printed electronics applications
Cobalt free hard facing materials for nuclear applications	Rolls Royce
Performance characterisation of a new generation nickel-base alloy for oil & gas well environment applications	Special Metals
Thermomechanical Processing of Magnesium Alloy Elektron 43	Magnesium Elektron
Elucidating sour corrosion scales	BP
Radiation-induced microstructural evolution of ODS steel welds for next generation nuclear reactors	TWI
The effect of microstructure on the performance of nickel-based alloys for use in oil and gas applications	BP
Organic finishes on coil-coated steel: surface treatments and cut edges	AkzoNobel
Development of new magnetic materials using high throughput approaches	European Space Agency
Industrial symbiosis within the steel industry	Tata Steel
Modelling of hot titanium extrusions for enhanced shape, microstructure and crystallographic texture control	Alcoa
Breakaway growth in neutron and proton irradiated Zr alloys	National Nuclear Laboratory

2011 Cohort

Project Title	Industrial Partner
The supply and recovery of strategically important steel alloying elements	Tata
Development of the mechanistic understanding of pond corrosion of AGR cladding	NNL
Advanced Aluminium Alloy 2139 for Armour Applications	DSTL
Understanding the pit-crack transition in offshore structural materials	BP
Deposition and properties of nickel-based superalloys by electron beam additive layer manufacture
A comparison of neutron, ion and proton irradiation on the microstructure evolution of zirconium alloys	Rolls Royce
Processing and Testing for the Rapid Discovery of New Alloys	ESA
Microstructural and fractographic characterisation of air and environmentally-assisted fatigue (corrosion fatigue) in 304SS (Serco)	Serco Assurance
Characterising dental implant osseointegration: Surface modification and properties
Application of Taper-Rolling to the Near-Net Shape Production of Aluminium Wing Skins	Siemens
Irradiation induced growth in Zr alloys
Controlled martensite phase transformation for ultrahigh strength press hardened steel design for automotive structural components	ArcelorMittal
Integration of Computational Materials Engineering with Aerospace Structures	Boeing
Excessive grain coarsening in IN718 engine disc forgings	Otto-Fuchs
Deformation mechanisms in nanostructured materials
Direct particle rolling of novel titanium alloy feedstocks and chemistries for the next generation of armour and defence applications	DSTL
Microstructure evolution and mechanical properties evalaution in stationary shoulder friction stir welding of high strength aluminium alloy
Microstructure Simulation and In-situ Measurement of ALM Processes	EADS

2010 Cohort

Project Title	Industrial Partner
Novel Shape Memory Alloys
The development of aluminium foams with tailored mesostructure for enhanced heat transfer	Alcan
Microstructure modelling and property prediction of nickel based superalloys for aerospace applications	Firth Rixson
Solid state processing of novel metastable beta titanium alloys	Boei/ Metalysis
Solidification Processing of Nb Silicide Based Alloys For Next Generation Gas Turbines	Rolls Royce
Environmentally friendly novel coatings for aerospace alloys	Airbus
Understanding Texture Weakening in Magnesium Rare Earth Alloys	Magnesium Elektron
Elucidating sweet and sour corrosion scales	BP
Development of material deposition strategies and lifting models for structural aerospace metallic components	Rolls Royce
Microstructure formability relationships in new generation high strength aluminium automotive alloys	Alcan
The effect of macrozones on crack initiation and propagation in titanium alloys	Rolls Royce
Particle Effects on Local Deformation, Recovery, and Stored Energy in Aluminium Alloys by Measurement and Simulation	Novelis
Structural optimisation of components for additive manufacture
Investigating the effect of oxide texture on the corrosion performance of Zirconium alloys	Rolls Royce

2009 Cohort

Project Title	Industrial Partner
Development of oxidation resistant coatings for Niobium-Silicide based alloys	Rolls Royce
Development of ultra high strength steels for reduced carbon emissions in automotive vehicles	Corus
Deformation mechanisms in nickel-based superalloys	Rolls Royce
Assessment of the stationary shoulder FSW technique for producing T-joints	TWI
Microstructural Characterisation and Performance of Steels used in Structural Bolting Assemblies in Fire
Development of new alloys for next generation gas turbines	Rolls Royce
Probing metal oxide-electrolyte interfaces at the nanoscale: Enabling science for corrosion control
In-situ studies of Corrosion Fatigue of High Strength Steel for Offshore Oil and Gas Applications	Capcis
The relationship between processing, recrystallization and texture in Zr-alloys	Westinghouse
Controlling corrosion and hydrogen evolution in magnesium alloys for biomedical applications
Performance of Lean 7000 Alloys	Alcan