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Organization: University of Cambridge - Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Location: Cambridge, UK

Field: Materials Science

Requirements:

Applicants should as a minimum have (or expect to be awarded) an upper second class UK Master's level degree (MSci, MPhys, MChem, MEng etc., or overseas equivalents) in a relevant subject. Students should meet UK residency criteria to be eligible for this studentship, which is available at the 'home fee' level. The stipend will be approximately £18,000 per annum.

Abstract:

Residual stresses are an anathema in welds because they are associated with distortion, they limit the magnitudes of the external stress that a weld can support, and influence the life of the joint in a variety of scenarios.

Description:

The purpose of this project is to exploit transformation induced plasticity to cancel out the stresses that develop as a weld cools. At the same time, the weld metal to be designed for this purpose must satisfy a range of mechanical and processing requirements in order to ensure structural intergrity. The research will involve a good combination of theory and experiments, some of which will involve synchrotron X-radiation.
The work will be done in collaboration with ESAB AB of Sweden, one of the largest manufacturer of welding consumables in the world. In Cambridge it will be supervised by Professor H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia and Dr Howard Stone.
 
 

Deadline: 30-07-2011

Contacts:

Link: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/gsprospectus/applying/

Email: hkdb@cam.ac.uk

Email: remw2@cam.ac.uk

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