Development of advanced robust predictive tools for Design, Manufacturing and Life prediction of industrial components operating at harsh environments.
- To design and develop models with applications in industrial components operating at corrosive environments
- To design and develop models with applications in industrial components operating at high temperature environments
- Using computational models to enhance the critical safety and reliability of industrial components operating in harsh environments
- Structural Integrity Assessment
- Micro-mechanical modeling
- Creep, Fatigue and Fracture
- Corrosion and Oxidation
- Offshore Engineering
- Power plant safety and reliability
- Remaining life assessment
- Failure analysis
- Residual stress measurement
- Advanced manufacturing technology
- Welding simulation
- Protective coating
- International collaborative projects
- Winter and summer schools
- Online courses
- Dual degree programs
- Conferences, workshops and talks
Steering Committee Members
DML
Dr. Soheil Nakhodchi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran
- Experimental Mechanics
- Stress Analysis
- Residual Stress Measurment and Prediction
- Welding
- Life estimation and LifeTime Extension (LTE)
Dr. Peter Flewitt
Department of Physics, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Materials and Devices
Dr. Kamran Nikbin
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
- Structural Integrity of Metallic Structures
Dr. Xijia Wu
National Research Council Canada (NRC), NRC Aerospace, Ottawa, Canada
- Aerospace Engineering
- Materials Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Feargal Brennan
Director of Energy and Power, Offshore Energy Engineering Centre. Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
- Structural integrity and its application to ships
- Offshore renewables and the Oil & Gas sector
Dr. Brian G. Thomas
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA
- Fluid Mechanics
- Solid Mechanics
- Thermo and Heat Transfer
- Applied Physics
- Chemistry
- Dynamics and Controls
- Computation and Applied Math
Dr. Ali Mehmanparast
Offshore Energy Engineering Centre, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Instrumentation, Sensors and Measurement Science
- Energy Asset Management
- Renewable Energy
- Structures and Materials
Dr. Ehsan Hosseini
Head of high temperature integrity group (HTIG), Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Analytical and finite element (FE) analysis of components and structures
- Mechanical integrity evaluation of additive manufactured (AM) structures
- Phenomenological modelling of deformation and damage behaviour (FE implementation)
- Development of creep-fatigue assessment procedures
Dr. Stuart Holdsworth
Stuart Holdsworth, Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Material Characterization
- Mechanical Behavior of Materials
- Microstructure