LightForm: Embedding Materials Engineering in Manufacturing with Light Alloys
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
Forming components from light alloys (aluminium, titanium and magnesium) is extremely important to sustainable transport because they can save over 40% weight, compared to steel, and are far cheaper and more recyclable than composites. This has led to rapid market growth, where light alloys are set to dominate the automotive sector. Remaining globally competitive in light metals technologies is also critical to the UK's, aerospace and defence industries, which are major exporters. For example, Jaguar Land Rover already produces fully aluminium car bodies and titanium is extensively used in aerospace products by Airbus and Rolls Royce. 85% of the market in light alloys is in wrought products, formed by pressing, or forging, to make components.
Traditional manufacturing creates a conflict between increasing a material's properties, (to increase performance), and manufacturability; i.e. the stronger a material is, the more difficult and costly it is to form into a part. This is because the development of new materials by suppliers occurs largely independently of manufacturers, and ever more alloy compositions are developed to achieve higher performance, which creates problems with scrap separation preventing closed loop recycling. Thus, often manufacturability restricts performance. For example, in car bodies only medium strength aluminium grades are currently used because it is no good having a very strong alloy that can't be made into the required shape. In cases when high strength levels are needed, such as in aerospace, specialised forming processes are used which add huge cost.
To solve this conundrum, LightForm will develop the science and modelling capability needed for a new holistic approach, whereby performance AND manufacturability can both be increased, through developing a step change in our ability to intelligently and precisely engineer the properties of a material during the forming of advanced components. This will be achieved by understanding how the manufacturing process itself can be used to manipulate the material structure at the microscopic scale, so we can start with a soft, formable, material and simultaneously improve and tailor its properties while we shape it into the final product. For example, alloys are already designed to 'bake harden' after being formed when the paint on a car is cured in an oven. However, we want to push this idea much further, both in terms of performance and property prediction. For example, we already have evidence we can double the strength of aluminium alloys currently used in car bodies by new synergistic hybrid deformation and heat treatment processing methods.
To do this, we need to better understand how materials act as dynamic systems and design them to feed back to different forming conditions. We also aim to exploit exciting developments in powerful new techniques that will allow us to see how materials behave in industrial processes in real time, using facilities like the Diamond x-ray synchrotron, and modern modelling methods. By capturing these effects in physical models, and integrating them into engineering codes, we will be able to embed microstructure engineering in new flexible forming technologies, that don't use fixed tooling, and enable accurate prediction of properties at the design stage - thus accelerating time to market and the customisation of products.
Our approach also offers the possibility to tailor a wide range of properties with one alloy - allowing us to make products that can be more easily closed-loop recycled. We will also use embedded microstructure engineering to extend the formability of high-performance aerospace materials to increase precision and decrease energy requirements in forming, reducing the current high cost to industry.
Traditional manufacturing creates a conflict between increasing a material's properties, (to increase performance), and manufacturability; i.e. the stronger a material is, the more difficult and costly it is to form into a part. This is because the development of new materials by suppliers occurs largely independently of manufacturers, and ever more alloy compositions are developed to achieve higher performance, which creates problems with scrap separation preventing closed loop recycling. Thus, often manufacturability restricts performance. For example, in car bodies only medium strength aluminium grades are currently used because it is no good having a very strong alloy that can't be made into the required shape. In cases when high strength levels are needed, such as in aerospace, specialised forming processes are used which add huge cost.
To solve this conundrum, LightForm will develop the science and modelling capability needed for a new holistic approach, whereby performance AND manufacturability can both be increased, through developing a step change in our ability to intelligently and precisely engineer the properties of a material during the forming of advanced components. This will be achieved by understanding how the manufacturing process itself can be used to manipulate the material structure at the microscopic scale, so we can start with a soft, formable, material and simultaneously improve and tailor its properties while we shape it into the final product. For example, alloys are already designed to 'bake harden' after being formed when the paint on a car is cured in an oven. However, we want to push this idea much further, both in terms of performance and property prediction. For example, we already have evidence we can double the strength of aluminium alloys currently used in car bodies by new synergistic hybrid deformation and heat treatment processing methods.
To do this, we need to better understand how materials act as dynamic systems and design them to feed back to different forming conditions. We also aim to exploit exciting developments in powerful new techniques that will allow us to see how materials behave in industrial processes in real time, using facilities like the Diamond x-ray synchrotron, and modern modelling methods. By capturing these effects in physical models, and integrating them into engineering codes, we will be able to embed microstructure engineering in new flexible forming technologies, that don't use fixed tooling, and enable accurate prediction of properties at the design stage - thus accelerating time to market and the customisation of products.
Our approach also offers the possibility to tailor a wide range of properties with one alloy - allowing us to make products that can be more easily closed-loop recycled. We will also use embedded microstructure engineering to extend the formability of high-performance aerospace materials to increase precision and decrease energy requirements in forming, reducing the current high cost to industry.
Planned Impact
Involving key industry players to achieve economic impacts
We plan to ensure high impact from our research on UK global competitiveness through actively managing the innovation chain, from discovery to pilot scale demonstration. This will be achieved by working closely with industry, with a planned high value in leveraged projects (>£8M is targeted and £7M has already been pledged), and collaboration with software and technology demonstrator companies. We will also collaborate with the WMG and AFRC Catapult Centres, to allow us to demonstrate new innovations. In addition, we will maximise knowledge transfer and inform our strategic direction, by establishing an Information Exchange Forum that will provide road mapping and network with industry and professional bodies (e.g. IOM3 and European Aluminium).
Owing to their high recyclability and importance in light weight design, innovation in light alloys is extremely important to future UK economic growth. Transport manufacturing is worth £21Bn to GDP and employs 430k skilled workers. Formed light alloy products are also essential in packaging and defence. Export leaders, like Jaguar Land Rover, Airbus and Rolls Royce, are fully dependent on light alloy components. In addition, major industries have substantial supply chain activities in the UK (e.g. Stadco, Timet, MEL). The market positon of all these companies is highly dependent on innovation in wrought light alloy components. Over 20 companies will be active partners in the project and will directly benefit from the EPSRC funded enabling research.
Potential Impacts of the research include:
Short term (2-3 years): engineering models for advanced hybrid and flexible forming processes, materials models for dynamic microstructure and texture evolution in forming.
Modifications to existing forming processes (e.g. HFQ-Hot-Form-Quench) with embedded materials engineering.
Medium 3-6 years: intelligent forming simulation codes, that capture dynamic microstructure effects, deployed in industry - allowing a step change in precision of shape and property prediction; forming of higher strength alloys with greater consistency, lower energy and lower cost; using knowledge-based processing to increase recyclability; industrial application of new processes designed specifically for embedded materials engineering proven to early technology readiness.
Long Term High Value Innovations (5-15 years): full digital design of flexibly formed components with embedded materials engineering, accelerating time to market and allowing mass customisation; property and thickness tailoring; lower cost titanium formed and near-net shaped forged parts; warm formed Mg components.
Creating new knowledge and building skills
Our ambitious science programme and holistic approach to materials and manufacturing, will advance the metallurgical science and modelling required to cost-effectively engineer innovative higher-performance light alloy wrought products. This critical capability gap is currently missing from the UK landscape.
Through alignment with Centres of Doctoral Training LightForm will train 50 students in a multidisciplinary environment in skills critical to future UK economic growth, where there is an acknowledged shortfall. We will thus provide the next generation of engineers needed by industry.
Societal Impacts
Substantial benefits will include impact on future employment and standards of living by ensuring global competiveness in advanced manufacturing. Light metals are critical to low carbon technologies. LightForm will enable greater emissions benefits to be realized at a lower cost and with reduced environmental impact.
Impact on policy
LightForm will collaborate with industrial bodies, such as the Northern Automotive Alliance, to influence government policy on research into innovation in high-value-added, light metal products and sustainability within UK manufacturing.
We plan to ensure high impact from our research on UK global competitiveness through actively managing the innovation chain, from discovery to pilot scale demonstration. This will be achieved by working closely with industry, with a planned high value in leveraged projects (>£8M is targeted and £7M has already been pledged), and collaboration with software and technology demonstrator companies. We will also collaborate with the WMG and AFRC Catapult Centres, to allow us to demonstrate new innovations. In addition, we will maximise knowledge transfer and inform our strategic direction, by establishing an Information Exchange Forum that will provide road mapping and network with industry and professional bodies (e.g. IOM3 and European Aluminium).
Owing to their high recyclability and importance in light weight design, innovation in light alloys is extremely important to future UK economic growth. Transport manufacturing is worth £21Bn to GDP and employs 430k skilled workers. Formed light alloy products are also essential in packaging and defence. Export leaders, like Jaguar Land Rover, Airbus and Rolls Royce, are fully dependent on light alloy components. In addition, major industries have substantial supply chain activities in the UK (e.g. Stadco, Timet, MEL). The market positon of all these companies is highly dependent on innovation in wrought light alloy components. Over 20 companies will be active partners in the project and will directly benefit from the EPSRC funded enabling research.
Potential Impacts of the research include:
Short term (2-3 years): engineering models for advanced hybrid and flexible forming processes, materials models for dynamic microstructure and texture evolution in forming.
Modifications to existing forming processes (e.g. HFQ-Hot-Form-Quench) with embedded materials engineering.
Medium 3-6 years: intelligent forming simulation codes, that capture dynamic microstructure effects, deployed in industry - allowing a step change in precision of shape and property prediction; forming of higher strength alloys with greater consistency, lower energy and lower cost; using knowledge-based processing to increase recyclability; industrial application of new processes designed specifically for embedded materials engineering proven to early technology readiness.
Long Term High Value Innovations (5-15 years): full digital design of flexibly formed components with embedded materials engineering, accelerating time to market and allowing mass customisation; property and thickness tailoring; lower cost titanium formed and near-net shaped forged parts; warm formed Mg components.
Creating new knowledge and building skills
Our ambitious science programme and holistic approach to materials and manufacturing, will advance the metallurgical science and modelling required to cost-effectively engineer innovative higher-performance light alloy wrought products. This critical capability gap is currently missing from the UK landscape.
Through alignment with Centres of Doctoral Training LightForm will train 50 students in a multidisciplinary environment in skills critical to future UK economic growth, where there is an acknowledged shortfall. We will thus provide the next generation of engineers needed by industry.
Societal Impacts
Substantial benefits will include impact on future employment and standards of living by ensuring global competiveness in advanced manufacturing. Light metals are critical to low carbon technologies. LightForm will enable greater emissions benefits to be realized at a lower cost and with reduced environmental impact.
Impact on policy
LightForm will collaborate with industrial bodies, such as the Northern Automotive Alliance, to influence government policy on research into innovation in high-value-added, light metal products and sustainability within UK manufacturing.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Lead Research Organisation)
- Impression Technologies Ltd (Collaboration)
- Timet UK Ltd (Collaboration)
- PTDF Petroleum Technology Development Fund Nigeria (Collaboration)
- Norsk Hydro (Collaboration)
- Primetals technologies ltd (Collaboration)
- Innoval Technology (Collaboration)
- Rolls Royce Group Plc (Collaboration)
- Doncasters Group Ltd (Collaboration)
- Magnesium Elektron (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- BIAM Foundation (Collaboration)
- Novelis (Collaboration)
- Otto Fuchs (Collaboration)
- Airbus Group (Collaboration)
- Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) (Collaboration)
- Luxfer MEL Technologies (Collaboration)
- Constellium (Collaboration)
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Collaboration)
- Doncasters (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Crown Packaging (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Otto Fuchs (Germany) (Project Partner)
- Bombardier Aerospace (Project Partner)
- Innoval Technology (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Bejing Institute of Aeronautical Materials (Project Partner)
- WMG Catapult (Project Partner)
- Novelis Inc (Project Partner)
- Titanium Metals Corporation (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Tata Motors (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Hermith GmbH (Project Partner)
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (Project Partner)
- Rolls-Royce (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Impression Technologies (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Sapa Technology (Project Partner)
- PAB Coventry Ltd (Project Partner)
- Stadco Automotive Ltd (Project Partner)
- Volkswagen Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Luxfer Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Constellium (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Primetals Technologies (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Airbus (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Norsk Hydro (Norway) (Project Partner)
- Northern Automotive Alliance (Project Partner)
- ESI (United States) (Project Partner)
- Luxfer Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- BAE Systems (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Aboura Y
(2022)
Understanding the environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) initiation and propagation of new generation 7xxx alloys using slow strain rate testing
in Corrosion Science
Altiparmak S
(2021)
Challenges in additive manufacturing of high-strength aluminium alloys and current developments in hybrid additive manufacturing
in International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture
Atkinson M
(2019)
Comparing local deformation measurements to predictions from crystal plasticity during reverse loading of an aerospace alloy
in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Awang Draup A
(2022)
Modelling of friction stir welded AA2139 aluminium alloy panels in tension and blast
in International Journal of Impact Engineering
Balaskas A
(2020)
Corrosion protection mechanism of 2-mercaptobenzothiazole and its potential synergistic effect with cerium ions for treatment of AA 2024-T3
in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
Bignon M
(2023)
Interactions between plastic deformation and precipitation in Aluminium alloys: A crystal plasticity model
in Acta Materialia
Bignon M
(2022)
Modelling dynamic precipitation in pre-aged aluminium alloys under warm forming conditions
in Acta Materialia
Byres N
(2021)
The evolution of abnormally coarse grain structures in beta-annealed Ti-6Al%-4V% rolled plates, observed by in-situ investigation
in Acta Materialia
Byres N
(2020)
Analysis of the Development of Abnormal Grains Structures During Beta Annealing of Ti-64 Wrought Products
in MATEC Web of Conferences
Caballero A
(2022)
Microstructural characterisation and mechanical properties of Ti-5Al-5V-5Mo-3Cr built by wire and arc additive manufacture
in Philosophical Magazine
| Title | 3D Printing Titanium with a Conical Electron Beam |
| Description | We teamed up with xBeam 3D Metal Printing (https://xbeam3d.com/) to characterise Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) parts 3D printed using wire and a conical electron beam. In this video, I analyse the ß-grain structures of the xBeam test parts, built with 3 different deposition strategies, and present a post-build heat treatment trial to demonstrate that the xBeam process can replicate wrought titanium aerospace parts. Original research paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2021.101202 xBeam 3D Metal Printing: https://xbeam3d.com/ Research credits: Alec. E Davis, J. R. Kennedy, D. Strong, D. Kovalchuk, S. Porter, P. B. Prangnell. Video credits: Produced, written, recorded, and performed by Alec E. Davis. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | 6 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7620199 |
| Title | Additional Materials for Superalloys & High Performance Materials Lecture Course |
| Description | This additional course material accompanies the Superalloys & High Performance Materials lecture videos and includes;- Copies of the lecture slides for the online video- Copies of lecture slides for the 'live' session.- Practice questions.- Further reading suggestions. This course material was taken from lectures by Dr Christopher Daniel and Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Additional_Materials_for_Superalloys_High_Performan... |
| Title | Additional Materials for Superalloys & High Performance Materials Lecture Course |
| Description | This additional course material accompanies the Superalloys & High Performance Materials lecture videos and includes;- Copies of the lecture slides for the online video- Copies of lecture slides for the 'live' session.- Practice questions.- Further reading suggestions. This course material was taken from lectures by Dr Christopher Daniel and Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Additional_Materials_for_Superalloys_High_Performan... |
| Title | Additively Manufactured Titanium 'Alloy-Alloy Composites' and Site-Specific Property Design |
| Description | Paper links: Journal of Materials Characterization: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111577 Research Gate (free preprint): https://bit.ly/3xy1Ldm Video written and produced by Alec Davis and Jacob Kennedy. Research was conducted at the University of Manchester and Cranfield University, UK, by Jacob Kennedy, Alec Davis, Armando Caballero, Michael White, Jon Fellowes, Ed Pickering, and Phil Prangnell. This work was supported by grants: NEWAM (EPSRC EP/R027218/1), Lightform (EPSRC EP/R001715/1), and Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (EPSRC EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1, and EP/P025498/1). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | 2 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7014853 |
| Title | Beta-Stabilised Titanium Alloys - Superalloy lecture 7 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Beta-Stabilised Titanium Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 7. This part of the course was taught by Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 covers the history, general properties, and classification of beta-stabilised titanium alloys.Video 2 covers the phases and age hardening behaviour of beta-stabilised titanium, and a brief overview of the characterisation techniques is also given.Video 3 covers the thermomechanical processing of beta-stabilised titanium alloys.The live lecture includes a group discussion on thermomechanical processing and covers the "Beta-stabilised titanium alloys" topic. It was recorded on Thursday 18th March 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Beta-Stabilised_Titanium_Alloys_-_Superalloy_lectur... |
| Title | Beta-Stabilised Titanium Alloys - Superalloy lecture 7 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Beta-Stabilised Titanium Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 7. This part of the course was taught by Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 covers the history, general properties, and classification of beta-stabilised titanium alloys.Video 2 covers the phases and age hardening behaviour of beta-stabilised titanium, and a brief overview of the characterisation techniques is also given.Video 3 covers the thermomechanical processing of beta-stabilised titanium alloys.The live lecture includes a group discussion on thermomechanical processing and covers the "Beta-stabilised titanium alloys" topic. It was recorded on Thursday 18th March 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Beta-Stabilised_Titanium_Alloys_-_Superalloy_lectur... |
| Title | Deformation Mechanisms in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys - Superalloys Lecture 3 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Deformation Mechanisms in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 3. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 describes explains how slip contributes to grain reorientation and recalls the equations for calculating the resolved shear stress (RSS), the critically resolved shear stress (CRSS) and the Schmid factor.Video 2 will recall the main slip systems in both titanium and zirconium alloys and describe how the slip system activities change with temperature.Video 3 explains how twinning contributes to grain reorientation and presents the main twinning types in titanium and zirconium alloys.Video 4 describes the driving forces for recrystallization and recovery processes in terms of boundary and stored energy, which can be used to describe the microstructural changes during annealing (or hot-deforming) of titanium and zirconium materials.This live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Deformation Mechanisms in Ti and Zr Alloys" topic and was recorded on Monday 22nd February 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Deformation_Mechanisms_in_Titanium_and_Zirconium_Al... |
| Title | Deformation Mechanisms in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys - Superalloys Lecture 3 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Deformation Mechanisms in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 3. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 describes explains how slip contributes to grain reorientation and recalls the equations for calculating the resolved shear stress (RSS), the critically resolved shear stress (CRSS) and the Schmid factor.Video 2 will recall the main slip systems in both titanium and zirconium alloys and describe how the slip system activities change with temperature.Video 3 explains how twinning contributes to grain reorientation and presents the main twinning types in titanium and zirconium alloys.Video 4 describes the driving forces for recrystallization and recovery processes in terms of boundary and stored energy, which can be used to describe the microstructural changes during annealing (or hot-deforming) of titanium and zirconium materials.This live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Deformation Mechanisms in Ti and Zr Alloys" topic and was recorded on Monday 22nd February 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Deformation_Mechanisms_in_Titanium_and_Zirconium_Al... |
| Title | Degradation of Zirconium Alloys - Superalloys Lecture 9 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Degradation of Zr Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 9. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will describe why the nuclear reactor environment causes complex processes that degrade the properties of the zirconium cladding.Video 2 will explain how the stages of periodic corrosion observed in zirconium alloys can be described by changes in the oxide microstructure, as well as describing how second phase particles (SPPs) can improve the corrosion properties.Video 3 will describe the processes of hydrogen pickup, hydride formation and delayed hydride cracking (DHC) to explain the importance of hydrogen in degrading zirconium cladding properties both in the reactor and out of service in dry storage.Video 4 will explain how neutron irradiation changes material properties and affects the in-reactor behaviour of the zirconium cladding, including a description of irradiation induced growth in terms of the accumulation of vacancy and interstitial dislocation loops.Video 5 will describe the processes of irradiation enhanced creep and the mechanism of pellet cladding interaction (PCI), which can degrade the zirconium cladding and limit the power manoeuvring of nuclear power stations.Video 6 will explain the advantages and disadvantages of alternative cladding materials that could replace zirconium alloys to provide superior accident tolerance.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Degradation of Zr Alloys" topic and was recorded on Tuesday 13th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Degradation_of_Zirconium_Alloys_-_Superalloys_Lectu... |
| Title | Degradation of Zirconium Alloys - Superalloys Lecture 9 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Degradation of Zr Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 9. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will describe why the nuclear reactor environment causes complex processes that degrade the properties of the zirconium cladding.Video 2 will explain how the stages of periodic corrosion observed in zirconium alloys can be described by changes in the oxide microstructure, as well as describing how second phase particles (SPPs) can improve the corrosion properties.Video 3 will describe the processes of hydrogen pickup, hydride formation and delayed hydride cracking (DHC) to explain the importance of hydrogen in degrading zirconium cladding properties both in the reactor and out of service in dry storage.Video 4 will explain how neutron irradiation changes material properties and affects the in-reactor behaviour of the zirconium cladding, including a description of irradiation induced growth in terms of the accumulation of vacancy and interstitial dislocation loops.Video 5 will describe the processes of irradiation enhanced creep and the mechanism of pellet cladding interaction (PCI), which can degrade the zirconium cladding and limit the power manoeuvring of nuclear power stations.Video 6 will explain the advantages and disadvantages of alternative cladding materials that could replace zirconium alloys to provide superior accident tolerance.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Degradation of Zr Alloys" topic and was recorded on Tuesday 13th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Degradation_of_Zirconium_Alloys_-_Superalloys_Lectu... |
| Title | How many large samples can you scan with EBSD at once? |
| Description | In this video, I helped Xiaohan Zeng set up an EBSD run of 10 Ti-6Al-4V samples in a row on a Thermo Fisher high throughput Apreo SEM equipped with an Oxford Instruments' Symmetry 2 detector at the University of Manchester, UK. EBSD scan setup by Xiaohan Zeng (assisted by Dr Alec E Davis), sample preparation by Xiaohan Zeng, EBSD mapping calculator created by Dr Jack Donoghue. This research was supported by grants: NEWAM (EPSRC EP/R027218/1), LightForm (EPSRC EP/R001715/1), Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (EPSRC EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1, and EP/P025498/1). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | 8 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5384029 |
| Title | Introduction to Superalloys and their Applications - Superalloys Lecture 10 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on an "Introduction to Superalloys and their Applications" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 10. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will define the term "superalloys" and summarise the advantages and disadvantages of different iron, nickel and cobalt base superalloy materials, as well as summarising their different applications.Video 2 will introduce the high complexity of nickel superalloy chemistry, outline how processing and heat-treatments can be used to improve material properties, and introduce the different nickel superalloy types and categories.Video 3 will describe the degradation processes that affect the in-service properties of nickel superalloys throughout their operational lifetime, including oxidation, corrosion, stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and hot-corrosion.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Introduction to Superalloys and their Applications" topic and was recorded on Thursday 15th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Introduction_to_Superalloys_and_their_Applications_... |
| Title | Introduction to Superalloys and their Applications - Superalloys Lecture 10 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on an "Introduction to Superalloys and their Applications" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 10. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will define the term "superalloys" and summarise the advantages and disadvantages of different iron, nickel and cobalt base superalloy materials, as well as summarising their different applications.Video 2 will introduce the high complexity of nickel superalloy chemistry, outline how processing and heat-treatments can be used to improve material properties, and introduce the different nickel superalloy types and categories.Video 3 will describe the degradation processes that affect the in-service properties of nickel superalloys throughout their operational lifetime, including oxidation, corrosion, stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and hot-corrosion.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Introduction to Superalloys and their Applications" topic and was recorded on Thursday 15th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Introduction_to_Superalloys_and_their_Applications_... |
| Title | Introduction to Zirconium Alloys for Nuclear Applications - Superalloys Lecture 4 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Introduction to Zirconium Alloys for Nuclear Applications" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 4. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will recall the history of zirconium alloy development and explain the reasons behind trends for increasing or decreasing certain alloying additions.Video 2 will describe the fabrication process for zirconium cladding tubes, including a description of the pilgering process.Video 3 will explain how changes to the processing and annealing of zirconium materials can affect their in-reactor performance.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Introduction to Zr Alloys for Nuclear Applications" topic and was recorded on Tuesday 23rd February 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Introduction_to_Zirconium_Alloys_for_Nuclear_Applic... |
| Title | Introduction to Zirconium Alloys for Nuclear Applications - Superalloys Lecture 4 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Introduction to Zirconium Alloys for Nuclear Applications" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 4. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will recall the history of zirconium alloy development and explain the reasons behind trends for increasing or decreasing certain alloying additions.Video 2 will describe the fabrication process for zirconium cladding tubes, including a description of the pilgering process.Video 3 will explain how changes to the processing and annealing of zirconium materials can affect their in-reactor performance.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Introduction to Zr Alloys for Nuclear Applications" topic and was recorded on Tuesday 23rd February 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Introduction_to_Zirconium_Alloys_for_Nuclear_Applic... |
| Title | Is there a better alternative for Ti-6Al-4V in titanium 3D printing? |
| Description | Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) is the 'go-to' alloy for many applications, particularly in aerospace industries. But this alloy is designed for cast and wrought processes like forging and not for 3D printing (additive manufacturing). So, should we just assume Ti64 is still our best option for most applications? -Probably not. In this video I compare two titanium alloys deposited using high-deposition-rate 3D printing (additive manufacturing) - Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) & Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo-0.1Si (Ti6242) - to answer this question. Original research paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-022-06811-1 Research credits: A. E. Davis, A. E. Caballero, R. Biswal, S. W. Williams, P. B. Prangnell. All research conducted at the University of Manchester, and Cranfield University, UK. Video credits: Produced, written, recorded, and performed by Alec E. Davis. Except for WAAM process video: recorded by A. E. Caballero. This work was supported by grants: NEWAM (EPSRC EP/R027218/1), Lightform (EPSRC EP/R001715/1), and Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (EPSRC EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1, and EP/P025498/1). Alec E. Davis is also appreciated for equipment loan from the University of Manchester Materials AV Club. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | 10 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7400019 |
| Title | Nickel-Base Superalloy Precipitation - Superalloy Lecture 11 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Nickel-Base Superalloy Precipitation" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 11. This part of the course was taught by Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 gives an overview of the precipitation in nickel-base superalloy precipitation.Video 2 covers the impact of precipitation on mechanical properties in nickel-base superalloys.The live lecture includes poll questions on the nickel-base superalloy precipitation topic, and the deformation mechanisms were covered in more detail. It was recorded on 19th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Nickel-Base_Superalloy_Precipitation_-_Superalloy_L... |
| Title | Nickel-Base Superalloy Precipitation - Superalloy Lecture 11 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Nickel-Base Superalloy Precipitation" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 11. This part of the course was taught by Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 gives an overview of the precipitation in nickel-base superalloy precipitation.Video 2 covers the impact of precipitation on mechanical properties in nickel-base superalloys.The live lecture includes poll questions on the nickel-base superalloy precipitation topic, and the deformation mechanisms were covered in more detail. It was recorded on 19th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Nickel-Base_Superalloy_Precipitation_-_Superalloy_L... |
| Title | Phase Transformation in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys - Superalloys Lecture 2 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Phase Transformation in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 2. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 describes the effect of different alloying additions on the phase structure of titanium (and zirconium) alloys.Video 2 describes the phase transformation and microstructural changes that can occur in titanium and zirconium alloys, during heating and cooling at different rates.Video 3 introduces the Burgers Orientation Relationship (BOR), which describes the crystallographic relationship between the alpha and beta phases in both titanium and zirconium alloys, and can be used to predict 'variant' orientations.Video 4 shows how the different titanium alloys are classified based on their phase composition, and summarises their different properties and applications.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Phase Transformation in Ti and Zr Alloys" topic and was recorded on Tuesday 16th February 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Phase_Transformation_in_Titanium_and_Zirconium_Allo... |
| Title | Phase Transformation in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys - Superalloys Lecture 2 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Phase Transformation in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 2. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 describes the effect of different alloying additions on the phase structure of titanium (and zirconium) alloys.Video 2 describes the phase transformation and microstructural changes that can occur in titanium and zirconium alloys, during heating and cooling at different rates.Video 3 introduces the Burgers Orientation Relationship (BOR), which describes the crystallographic relationship between the alpha and beta phases in both titanium and zirconium alloys, and can be used to predict 'variant' orientations.Video 4 shows how the different titanium alloys are classified based on their phase composition, and summarises their different properties and applications.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Phase Transformation in Ti and Zr Alloys" topic and was recorded on Tuesday 16th February 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Phase_Transformation_in_Titanium_and_Zirconium_Allo... |
| Title | Real-time observation of alpha nucleation in Ti-6Al-4V |
| Description | This video was captured during an in-situ heating stage SEM experiment using a secondary electron camera at the University of Manchester, UK. The Ti-6Al-4V sample was heated to 1000°C to the full ß-phase field and then slowly cooled (0.3°C/s) through the ß transus, and the a-phase nucleation was recorded by the contrast change in the secondary electron camera from topography development on the sample surface due to surface relief. Microscope operated by Dr Alec E Davis and Dr Jack Donoghue, sample preparation by Nick Byres. These results were published in an Acta Materialia paper in 2021: Acta Materialia paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117315 Researchgate (free peer reviewed preprint): https://bit.ly/3EHs7Na |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | 6 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7014490 |
| Title | Setting up an ENORMOUS sample EBSD! |
| Description | Setting up an EBSD of an 8 x 6 cm Ti-6Al-4V deformed metallic sample on a Thermo Fisher Apreo SEM equipped with an Oxford Instruments' Symmetry 2 detector at the University of Manchester, UK. EBSD scan setup by Dr Alec E Davis, sample preparation by Nicholas Byres, EBSD mapping calculator created by Dr Jack Donoghue. This research was supported by grants: NEWAM (EPSRC EP/R027218/1), LightForm (EPSRC EP/R001715/1), Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (EPSRC EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1, and EP/P025498/1). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | 7 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4947965 |
| Title | Single Crystal Superalloys for Turbine Blade Applications - Superalloys Lecture 12 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Single Crystal Superalloys for Turbine Blade Applications" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 12. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will first focus on the processing and heat-treatment of polycrystalline superalloys and explain how the process can be optimised to produce idealised properties for the turbine disk in a jet engine.Video 2 will explain the processing stages for single-crystal superalloys that can be used to improve the high temperature properties and creep performance of the turbine blades in a jet engine.Video 3 will summarise the reasons behind trends for different chemical additions and how they have helped steadily improve the single crystal turbine blade properties, as well as describing the importance of minimising freckling, orientation and grain boundary defects during production.Video 4 will cover the in-service performance of single crystal turbine blades, explaining the creep performance and the creep process of rafting, summarising the fatigue properties, and explaining the reasons behind coatings and joinings.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Single Crystal Superalloys for Turbine Blade Applications" topic and was recorded on Tuesday 20th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Single_Crystal_Superalloys_for_Turbine_Blade_Applic... |
| Title | Single Crystal Superalloys for Turbine Blade Applications - Superalloys Lecture 12 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Single Crystal Superalloys for Turbine Blade Applications" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 12. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will first focus on the processing and heat-treatment of polycrystalline superalloys and explain how the process can be optimised to produce idealised properties for the turbine disk in a jet engine.Video 2 will explain the processing stages for single-crystal superalloys that can be used to improve the high temperature properties and creep performance of the turbine blades in a jet engine.Video 3 will summarise the reasons behind trends for different chemical additions and how they have helped steadily improve the single crystal turbine blade properties, as well as describing the importance of minimising freckling, orientation and grain boundary defects during production.Video 4 will cover the in-service performance of single crystal turbine blades, explaining the creep performance and the creep process of rafting, summarising the fatigue properties, and explaining the reasons behind coatings and joinings.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Single Crystal Superalloys for Turbine Blade Applications" topic and was recorded on Tuesday 20th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Single_Crystal_Superalloys_for_Turbine_Blade_Applic... |
| Title | Texture Development in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys - Superalloys Lecture 6 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Texture Development in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 6. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will show how to interpret different crystallographic textures using the pole figure and orientation distribution function (ODF) representations.Video 2 will use texture data, in the form of pole figures and orientation distribution functions (ODFs), to describe the differences in texture development between single and dual-phase titanium and zirconium alloys.Video 3 will briefly summarise how computer simulation modelling can be used to predict crystallographic texture development.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Texture Development in Ti and Zr Alloys" topic and was recorded on Thursday 11th March 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Texture_Development_in_Titanium_and_Zirconium_Alloy... |
| Title | Texture Development in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys - Superalloys Lecture 6 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Texture Development in Titanium and Zirconium Alloys" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 6. This part of the course was taught by Dr Christopher Daniel at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 will show how to interpret different crystallographic textures using the pole figure and orientation distribution function (ODF) representations.Video 2 will use texture data, in the form of pole figures and orientation distribution functions (ODFs), to describe the differences in texture development between single and dual-phase titanium and zirconium alloys.Video 3 will briefly summarise how computer simulation modelling can be used to predict crystallographic texture development.The live lecture includes poll questions and discussion for the "Texture Development in Ti and Zr Alloys" topic and was recorded on Thursday 11th March 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Texture_Development_in_Titanium_and_Zirconium_Alloy... |
| Title | The Metallurgy of Titanium Additive Manufacturing - Superalloy Lecture 13 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "The Metallurgy of Titanium Additive Manufacturing" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 13. This part of the course was taught by Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 discusses the formation of large beta grain structures in high deposition rate additively manufactured titanium and the methods of breaking up this structure.Video 2 discusses the effect of repeated rapid heating cycles on the alpha transformation microstructure in titanium additive manufacturing.The live lecture includes a group discussion on the impact of repeated rapid heating cycles that are intrinsic to additive manufacturing on various titanium alloys, and was recorded on 26th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/The_Metallurgy_of_Titanium_Additive_Manufacturing_-... |
| Title | The Metallurgy of Titanium Additive Manufacturing - Superalloy Lecture 13 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "The Metallurgy of Titanium Additive Manufacturing" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 13. This part of the course was taught by Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 discusses the formation of large beta grain structures in high deposition rate additively manufactured titanium and the methods of breaking up this structure.Video 2 discusses the effect of repeated rapid heating cycles on the alpha transformation microstructure in titanium additive manufacturing.The live lecture includes a group discussion on the impact of repeated rapid heating cycles that are intrinsic to additive manufacturing on various titanium alloys, and was recorded on 26th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/The_Metallurgy_of_Titanium_Additive_Manufacturing_-... |
| Title | Titanium Aluminide Intermetallics - Superalloy Lecture 8 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Titanium Aluminide Intermetallics" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 8. This part of the course was taught by Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 covers the applications and common phases found in titanium aluminide intermetallic alloys.Video 2 covers the deformation mechanisms, thermomechanical processing, and grain refinement techniques of titanium aluminide intermetallic alloys.Video 3 covers the effect of high temperature environments on titanium and titanium aluminide intermetallic alloys, and the specific metallurgy of how these alloys maintain high strengths and oxidation resistance at elevated temperatures are discussed.The live lecture includes poll questions on the titanium aluminide intermetallics topic and a group discussion on grain refinement. It was recorded on 12th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Titanium_Aluminide_Intermetallics_-_Superalloy_Lect... |
| Title | Titanium Aluminide Intermetallics - Superalloy Lecture 8 |
| Description | This set of lectures is on "Titanium Aluminide Intermetallics" for the Superalloys & High Performance Materials course part 8. This part of the course was taught by Dr Alec Davis at The University of Manchester in 2021.Video 1 covers the applications and common phases found in titanium aluminide intermetallic alloys.Video 2 covers the deformation mechanisms, thermomechanical processing, and grain refinement techniques of titanium aluminide intermetallic alloys.Video 3 covers the effect of high temperature environments on titanium and titanium aluminide intermetallic alloys, and the specific metallurgy of how these alloys maintain high strengths and oxidation resistance at elevated temperatures are discussed.The live lecture includes poll questions on the titanium aluminide intermetallics topic and a group discussion on grain refinement. It was recorded on 12th April 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/media/Titanium_Aluminide_Intermetallics_-_Superalloy_Lect... |
| Description | We have continued to develop our work on understanding and modelling dynamic precipitation in aluminium alloys. We have now validated our model using in-situ synchrotron diffraction and have successfully implemented the KWN model as a material model in the open source modelling framework DAMASK. The single point model has also been repackaged and released to the community. This work has been reported in two peer-reviewed, high-profile journal articles. Although the pandemic severely limited our ability to carry out synchrotron diffraction measurements,2022 has given us the opportunity to carry out key experiments. We are finally starting to benefit from the unique insights these unique experiments provide. Synchrotron measurements made at DESY show a clear difference in the texture evolution behaviour during deformation above ~915C, which agrees with previous work carried out using hot compression testing in the lab. Crucially, this work reveals that most of the changes happen during or just after deformation, which is essential information for the modelling of the microstructure evolution in these important materials. We have also refined our methodology for measuring texture using synchrotron X-ray diffraction and carried out a series of in-situ straining experiments to help calibrate single crystal parameters for our crystal plasticity modelling. The methods and data obtained in this experiment have been made available on Zenodo, on the LightForm community. |
| Exploitation Route | The new fundamental understanding developed in LightForm can be used to optimes current forming processes and guide the development of new processes and alloy compositions. We have taken extra care to make all our data, computational models and analysis code available through public repositories, so they can be used by other scientists and by our industrial partners. A number of new EPSRC and industrial funded projects are already under way that exploit the research in LightForm and apply it to new problems of industrial and scientific interest. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Transport |
| URL | https://lightform.org.uk/ |
| Description | In the third year of the project, research in LightForm is already being applied in industrial contexts. Two main examples: are improvements on the press quench method for forming aluminium components and the control of abnormal grains during processing of Ti alloy components. HFQ (Heat Treatment Forming and in-die Quench) is a new process for forming high strength aluminium alloys, enabling their use in transport applications, including in the automotive sector. Research in LightForm has led to significant improvements, which are now being exploited by our partners Impression Technology. We have developed rapid ageing treatment was developed to reduce the ageing time from 9 h to 20 min for AA6082. We have demonstrated that HFQ combined with rapid ageing can be successfully used to form parts from medium strength aluminium alloys, with greatly reduced cycle times compared to conventional sheet forming and without affecting its corrosion behaviour. Large Ti structural forgings, used in aero structures, are usually beta heat treated to produce an optimized microstructure with high toughness. On occasion, unwanted abnormal grain structures can develop during heat treatment, which can affect the properties of the material. Large parts containing abnormal structures cannot be used and must be scrapped, at significant financial and environmental cost. As part of our ongoing collaboration with Airbus, we used electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis, and discovered that these defects originate in regions of very strong texture that develop during hot working. The factors controlling the development of the abnormal grain structures were studied using in-situ methods developed in LightForm. This new understanding is now being used by the suppliers to Airbus to modify the processing route during forging, and avoid the development of abnormal grains. |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Transport |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | AMS CDT Studenship - V.Kan |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - A.Ha |
| Amount | £92,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - B.Wilson |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - C.Grant |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - E.Cooksey-Nash |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - F.Guarracino |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - G.Bowker |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - J.Sharples |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - L.Gonzales |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - M.Nawaz |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 76600 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - M.White |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - N.Hughes |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - P.Curran |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - R.Euesden |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - S.Engel |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - S.Odell |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - S.Rehman |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - W.Heatman |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - Y.Yao |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | AMS CDT Studentship - Z.Ma |
| Amount | £76,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Additive Manufacture of Advanced Aluminium Alloys - J. Robson |
| Amount | £152,369 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | DSTL/RAEng Chair in Alloys for Extreme Environments |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RCSRF2021\1247 |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 03/2027 |
| Description | DTA Studentship - B.Karnasiewic |
| Amount | £70,488 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | DTA Studentship - I.Howe |
| Amount | £70,488 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | DTA Studentship - J.Srivastava |
| Amount | £35,244 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | DTA Studentship - N.Byres |
| Amount | £70,488 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | DTA Studentship - R.Barker |
| Amount | £70,488 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | Doing More With Less: A Digital Twin of state-of-the-art and emerging high value manufacturing routes for high integrity titanium alloy components |
| Amount | £2,608,542 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T024992/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Industrial CASE - X.Zhou |
| Amount | £140,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2023 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | Next Wing |
| Amount | £11,189,824 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10002372 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Rotational Vibration Assisted Increment Sheet Forming by Novel Tooling (RV-ISF) |
| Amount | £1,016,187 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W010089/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2025 |
| Description | Royce Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme 2022 |
| Amount | £2,850 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Title | 2D EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for a Hot-Rolled Model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb Alloy |
| Description | A set of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data files for a model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb addition alloy following hot-rolling. The 2D data set contains EBSD maps recording the microstructure and texture evolution, from a beta-processed (and annealed) starting condition, following rolling at a temperature of 725C to 50% and 75% reduction. Data for annealing of the rolled materials (750C for 2 hours) is also included. Note, phases in the ctf files marked as 'Titanium Cubic' refer to measurement of the 'Zirconium Cubic' phase. Please see our accompanying paper for analysis of the 2D measurements - as well as analysis of a 3D reconstruction from 10.5281/zenodo.3785084 - and for interpretation of the coupled crystallographic texture evolution; C.S. Daniel, Garner A., P.D. Honniball, L. Bradley, M. Preuss, P.B. Prangnell, J. Quinta da Fonseca, Co-deformation and dynamic annealing effects on the texture development during alpha-beta processing of a model Zr-Nb alloy, Acta Materialia (2020) [Article in Press] |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3784460 |
| Title | 2D EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for a Hot-Rolled Model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb Alloy |
| Description | A set of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data files for a model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb addition alloy following hot-rolling. The 2D data set contains EBSD maps recording the microstructure and texture evolution, from a beta-processed (and annealed) starting condition, following rolling at a temperature of 725C to 50% and 75% reduction. Data for annealing of the rolled materials (750C for 2 hours) is also included. Note, phases in the ctf files marked as 'Titanium Cubic' refer to measurement of the 'Zirconium Cubic' phase. Please see our accompanying paper for analysis of the 2D measurements - as well as analysis of a 3D reconstruction from 10.5281/zenodo.3785084 - and for interpretation of the coupled crystallographic texture evolution; C.S. Daniel, Garner A., P.D. Honniball, L. Bradley, M. Preuss, P.B. Prangnell, J. Quinta da Fonseca, Co-deformation and dynamic annealing effects on the texture development during alpha-beta processing of a model Zr-Nb alloy, Acta Materialia (2020) [Article in Press] |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3784461 |
| Title | 3D EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for a Hot-Rolled Model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb Alloy |
| Description | A set of serial-section electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data files and a 3D reconstruction of a model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb addition alloy following hot-rolling. The 3D data set contains measurements of the material rolled at 725C to 75% reduction. The measurements include indexing of both the alpha and the beta phases in 441 sequential slices, each of 0.1 µm, through a small section of the material, taken using the dual beam Thermo Scientific Helios Xe + plasma focused ion-beam scanning electron microscope (PFIB-SEM). The 3D EBSD data set includes EBSD measurements in the form of ctf files, binary data files, an Aztec project file, and accompanying images for each slice. A 3D volume was reconstructed from the 3D EBSD data set using a customised pipeline within the DREAM.3D software. The results of this analysis are included in the 'dream3d' folder, which includes a description of the pipeline, the final fully reconstructed dream3d data file, an xdmf file used for visualising the data in ParaView, a h5ebsd file containing results for the reconstruction, and grain averaged data for each of the identified features. Please see our accompanying paper for analysis of the 3D reconstruction - as well as analysis of the 2D measurements from 10.5281/zenodo.3784460 - and for interpretation of the coupled crystallographic texture evolution; C.S. Daniel, Garner A., P.D. Honniball, L. Bradley, M. Preuss, P.B. Prangnell, J. Quinta da Fonseca, Co-deformation and dynamic annealing effects on the texture development during alpha-beta processing of a model Zr-Nb alloy, Acta Materialia (2020) [Article in Press] |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3785085 |
| Title | 3D EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for a Hot-Rolled Model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb Alloy |
| Description | A set of serial-section electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) data files and a 3D reconstruction of a model Zircaloy-4 with 7 wt.% Nb addition alloy following hot-rolling. The 3D data set contains measurements of the material rolled at 725C to 75% reduction. The measurements include indexing of both the alpha and the beta phases in 441 sequential slices, each of 0.1 µm, through a small section of the material, taken using the dual beam Thermo Scientific Helios Xe + plasma focused ion-beam scanning electron microscope (PFIB-SEM). The 3D EBSD data set includes EBSD measurements in the form of ctf files, binary data files, an Aztec project file, and accompanying images for each slice. A 3D volume was reconstructed from the 3D EBSD data set using a customised pipeline within the DREAM.3D software. The results of this analysis are included in the 'dream3d' folder, which includes a description of the pipeline, the final fully reconstructed dream3d data file, an xdmf file used for visualising the data in ParaView, a h5ebsd file containing results for the reconstruction, and grain averaged data for each of the identified features. Please see our accompanying paper for analysis of the 3D reconstruction - as well as analysis of the 2D measurements from 10.5281/zenodo.3784460 - and for interpretation of the coupled crystallographic texture evolution; C.S. Daniel, Garner A., P.D. Honniball, L. Bradley, M. Preuss, P.B. Prangnell, J. Quinta da Fonseca, Co-deformation and dynamic annealing effects on the texture development during alpha-beta processing of a model Zr-Nb alloy, Acta Materialia (2020) [Article in Press] |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3785084 |
| Title | AZtec projects reach the data size limit |
| Description | Ten Ti-6Al-4V samples were mounted on a multi-sample stage for EBSD on a Thermo Fisher Apreo SEM equipped with an Oxford Instruments' Symmetry 2 detector at the University of Manchester. In project multi-sample_1, AZtec reported a saving error when scanning the fifth sample and stopped with 5646 frames saved (.oip~4GB). It is able to montage and export the maps, but any edit on the .oip file cannot be saved. In project multi-sample_2, we restarted the scan on the rest of the samples and completed with 5601 frames. The .oip is 3.97GB, which almost reaches the size limit. No error was reported during the scanning, and the .oip file is still editable. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 10 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5660090 |
| Title | Data Management for Materials Researchers (14/01/2022) - workshop notes |
| Description | These notes summarise discussions at the Data Management for Materials Researchers workshop, hosted by the Henry Royce Institute on 14th January 2022 (online, UK). Sponsored by the MIDAS and Lightform programme grants, the workshop was aimed at materials science researchers (from any discipline) who collect, store, analyse and share experimental data associated with their samples. It also welcomed inputs from research data management/data infrastructure researchers and specialists. The workshop shared examples of best practice and current initiatives in the area, with the aim of generating discussion and producing a list of actions to enable better data management practices for materials science. Improving data management and sharing culture requires the involvement of everyone in the community and so the meeting was open to all, at all career stages, from all institutions and backgrounds. Discussions were moderated to ensure that everyone had the opportunity to contribute. The workshop was based around discussions of questions, stimulated by short talks from speakers. The following are notes summarising the discussions. They are not a perfect record of everything that was discussed, but nevertheless, it is hoped they prove a useful resource for further activity in this area. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 105 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6855740#.ZAtJ3i2l1QI |
| Title | Deformation Enhanced Diffusion in Aluminium Alloys - Supporting data |
| Description | Supporting data and manuscript for the paper "Deformation Enhanced Diffusion in Aluminium Alloys" published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3983636 |
| Title | Deformation Enhanced Diffusion in Aluminium Alloys - Supporting data |
| Description | Supporting data and manuscript for the paper "Deformation Enhanced Diffusion in Aluminium Alloys" published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3983635 |
| Title | Deformation Enhanced Diffusion in Aluminium Alloys: Supporting Data |
| Description | Supporting data for paper Deformation Enhanced Diffusion in Aluminium Alloys https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-05960-5 J. D. Robson, METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A, VOLUME 51A, OCTOBER 2020-5401-5413 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 5 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4751272#.ZAtTCy2l1QI |
| Title | Density Functional Theory Calculations of Segregation Tendency of Alloying Elements in Al3Zr and Al3Sc Dispersoid Particles |
| Description | Results and analysis of density functional theory calculations for publication: Stability and stoichiometry of L12 Al3(Sc,Zr) dispersoids in Al-(Si)-Sc-Zr alloys |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 10 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4552091 |
| Title | EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for Hot-rolled Ti-6Al-4V |
| Description | This is an EBSD dataset for hot-rolled Ti-6Al-4V alloy. It includes the EBSD maps of the starting material, and materials have been rolled at nine different temperatures (825°C, 865°C, 895°C, 915°C, 935°C, 950°C, 960°C, 975°C, 1020°C) to three reductions (50%, 75%, and 87.5%). Each rolled material was sampled from transverse direction (TD) and rolling direction (RD) and EBSD maps were taken from both directions. Materials rolled at 825°C and 915°C were further rolled to 94% reduction and EBSD maps were taken from TD. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 16 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6554355#.ZAs67i2l2Cg |
| Title | EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for a Hot-Rolled Zr-2.5Nb Alloy |
| Description | A set of ex-situ electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) datafiles following rolling of a Zr-2.5Nb alloy at different temperatures (700C, 750C, 775C, 800C, 825C, 850C, 900C) and rolling reductions (50%, 75%, 87.5%). Data for annealing of the material (750C for 2 hours) and following rolling at 800C from a different 'as-forged' starting texture is also included. Note, phases in the ctf files marked as Titanium Cubic refer to measurement of the Zirconium Cubic phase. The data in the 'Beta ctf' folder includes a reconstruction of the high temperature beta-phase orientations where possible, reconstructed from the alpha phase orientations using a software based on the Burgers relationship. Please see the accompanying paper for the interpretation of crystallographic texture changes; C.S. Daniel, P.D. Honniball, L. Bradley, M. Preuss, J. Quinta da Fonseca, A detailed study of texture changes during alpha-beta processing of a zirconium alloy, J. Alloys Compd. 804 (2019) 65-83, 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.06.338 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/2784787 |
| Title | EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for a Hot-Rolled Zr-2.5Nb Alloy |
| Description | A set of ex-situ electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) datafiles following rolling of a Zr-2.5Nb alloy at different temperatures (700C, 750C, 775C, 800C, 825C, 850C, 900C) and rolling reductions (50%, 75%, 87.5%). Data for annealing of the material (750C for 2 hours) and following rolling at 800C from a different 'as-forged' starting texture is also included. Note, phases in the ctf files marked as Titanium Cubic refer to measurement of the Zirconium Cubic phase. The data in the 'Beta ctf' folder includes a reconstruction of the high temperature beta-phase orientations where possible, reconstructed from the alpha phase orientations using a software based on the Burgers relationship. Please see the accompanying paper for the interpretation of crystallographic texture changes; C.S. Daniel, P.D. Honniball, L. Bradley, M. Preuss, J. Quinta da Fonseca, A detailed study of texture changes during alpha-beta processing of a zirconium alloy, J. Alloys Compd. 804 (2019) 65-83, 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.06.338 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/2784786 |
| Title | EBSD Dataset of the Alpha and Beta Phase Orientations for a Hot-Rolled Zr-2.5Nb Alloy |
| Description | A set of ex-situ electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) datafiles following rolling of a Zr-2.5Nb alloy at different temperatures (700C, 750C, 775C, 800C, 825C, 850C, 900C) and rolling reductions (50%, 75%, 87.5%). Data for annealing of the material (750C for 2 hours) and following rolling at 800C from a different 'as-forged' starting texture is also included. The data in the 'Beta ctf' folder includes a reconstruction of the high temperature beta-phase orientations where possible, reconstructed from the alpha phase orientations using a software based on the Burgers relationship. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The accompanying paper was published, which interprets the crystallographic texture changes occurring during rolling; C.S. Daniel, P.D. Honniball, L. Bradley, M. Preuss, J. Quinta da Fonseca, A detailed study of texture changes during alpha-beta processing of a zirconium alloy, J. Alloys Compd. 804 (2019) 65-83, 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.06.338 |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2784787 |
| Title | EBSD datasets to test beta phase reconstruction |
| Description | A set of EBSD maps collected at room temperature of titanium and zirconium alloys to test high temperature beta phase reconstruction. Maps from both materials following high temperature annealing and deformation are included in various map sizes. All datasets datasets are provided in the Channel 5 project format with some also provided in the Channel 5 text format. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 12 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4588500 |
| Title | EBSD measurements of Surfalex HF (AA6016A) |
| Description | This dataset contains electron back scatter diffraction (EBSD) measurements of Surfalex HF (AA6016A), an aluminium alloy commonly used in automotive applications. The measurements were carried out using an FEI Sirion field emission gun scanning electron microscope equipped with a Nordlys detector from Oxford instruments. An acceleration voltage of 20 kV was used to scan large areas with a working distance of 16 mm and a step size of 2 µm. The size of the areas ensured that a sufficient number of grains were captured in order to have a reliable estimate of texture. EBSD scans were performed on three different planes with respect to the rolling (RD), transverse (TD) and normal (RD) directions: RD-TD, RD-ND and TD-ND. The sample preparation for EBSD involved grinding steps from 600 to 4000 grit, followed by 3 µm and 1 µm diamond polishing. The final stage of polishing was performed using a colloidal silica with a particle size of 0.02 µm. In order to increase the surface quality, the samples were then subjected to electropolishing using a solution of 70% methanol and 30% nitric acid. The electrolyte was maintained at -15 Celsius during the entire process. The polishing voltage was 10 V and the polishing time was 10 s. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 3 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4926260 |
| Title | Exploring Effects of Property Variation on Fragmentation of Metal Rings using a Simple Model |
| Description | Data and code associated with the paper "Exploring Effects of Property Variation on Fragmentation of Metal Rings using a Simple Model", Defence Technology, 2022 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 17 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6967452#.ZAtJjy2l1QI |
| Title | GND Calculation code for Titanium Alloys |
| Description | The GND density of Titanium Alloys can be calculated based on simplified form of Nye's relations (six curvature tensors) using lattice rotation gradients on specimen surface (measured by conventional 2-D EBSD). The code was developed using MATLAB™ toolbox MTEX with self-developed routines, in which a total of 33 potential dislocations types in a phase is considered. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The local deformation mechanism at microstructural level can be studied by investigating the distribution of GND density in individual grains. The quantified GND values can be helpful in developing unified viscoplastic constitutive equations to model microstructure evolution in hot/warm metal forming processes. |
| Title | HRDIC dataset of strain localization in shot peened Ni superalloy |
| Description | We used high-resolution digital image correlation (HRDIC) to measure strain distribution at each deformation step near the shot peened surface of a Ni superalloy, deformed in tension at 450 C. To make the DIC analysis possible, we first developed a fine, homogeneous distributed gold speckle pattern by remodelling a thin gold layer previously deposited on the polished sample surface. The gold layer was deposited using an Edwards S150B sputter coater for 4 minutes providing a ~40-45 nm thickness gold layer. Then, the sample was placed in the heating plate of the remodelling device for 6 hours at 300 °C. During the remodelling process, water vapour flows onto the surface of the coated material and remodels the gold layer into fine speckles. In order to avoid any possible speckle coarsening during the high temperature tensile testing, the remodelled sample was heated in a furnace at 475 °C for 5 hours and air cooled to stabilise the gold pattern. Due to the required stabilization heat treatment, the average speckle size was 120 nm, which is coarser than in previous studies at room temperature, where no pattern thermal stabilization is needed. We used a FEI Magellan HR 400L FE-SEM with a theoretical resolution of = 0.9 nm at <1kV to take backscattered electron images of the pattern. The images were obtained at a working distance of 3.5 mm, 5 kV and 0.8 nA beam current. Mosaics of 30x15 images were used to cover 950x420 squared microns, an area shown area in Fig. 1). Each image contains 2048 x 1768 pixels and has a horizontal field of view of 43 microns. The images were overlapped by 20% to enable easy stitching prior to the digital image correlation. We obtained 7 mosaics, one before tensile testing and 6 after each deformation step. The mosaics for the un-deformed and deformed state were correlated using LaVision's digital image correlation (DIC) software (version DaVis 8.3). The correlation was performed using a sub-window size of 1616 pixels and no overlap, which provides a spatial resolution of about 335 nm. This resolution allowed us to handle the large data sets generated when covering such large areas (each mosaic was 45.5k x 20k pixels in size). The correlation produces full-field in-plane displacement maps u(x1, x2, 0) on the plane x1x2 with normal x3. Code for reading and visualizing this data is available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4727939. The shear strain data is also provided as a python dictionary saved as a NumPy array. Visualization previews are given as .png and .gif files. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 22 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4728016 |
| Title | High Temperature Compression Studies of a 6082.50 Aluminium Alloy using Deformation Dilatometer |
| Description | Data recorded in uniaxial compression for a 6082.50 aluminium alloy deformed at temperatures of 490C, 520C and 560C, at strain rates of 10, 1, and 0.1 s-1, to 50% height reduction, using TA Instruments DIL 805 A/D/T Quenching and Deformation Dilatometer. The cylindrical samples measured 5 mm diameter and 10 mm height. The 6082.50 aluminium specimens were machined from an as-cast billet. Two homogenisation have been performed on this material, one at 590C for 8h and one at 520C for 2h. These are identified as homogenisation 1 and homogenisation 2 in the data. Al2O3 platens were used for all tests, with Mo discs superglued at both ends of the sample to maximise thermal contact. Tests were conducted in an inert He gas atmosphere under a vacuum of 1e-5 mbar. The temperature was controlled using an K-Type thermocouple spot-welded to the centre of the samples with another K-Type thermocouple welded halfway between the centre and end to measure the thermal gradient. Not all of these second thermocouples provided data due to breakages. Data recorded at high acquisition frequency during deformation is stored in the 'data_deformation' folder and saved with the format: ' test number (002 to 038)_Compression_Daniel_Al_(homogenisation treatment - see above)_SHT_540C_Deform_(Deformation temperature)_(deformation strain rate)_QuenchHeGas__1. Here SHT_540C refers to the solutionising treatment and QuenchHeGas__1 refers to the method of cooling after deformation. This dataset does not include readings from the off-centre thermocouple. Data in the 'data_basic' folder is recorded at a lower acquisition frequency but includes a recording of the entire thermomechanical cycle, including both heating and cooling stages, as well as deformation. The 'method' folder includes contains the temperature and deformation profiles used. 'pictures' includes images taken of the samples and set up during the experiment. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 3 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6362949 |
| Title | High Temperature Compression Studies of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy using Deformation Dilatometer |
| Description | Data recorded in uniaxial compression for a Zr-2.5Nb alloy deformed at temperatures of 650C, 675C, 700C, 725C, 750C, 775C, 800C, 825C and 850C, at strain rates of 10-2.5, 10-2, 10-1.5, 10-1, 10-0.5 and 1 s-1, to 50% height reduction, using TA Instruments DIL 805 A/D/T Quenching and Deformation Dilatometer. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data was used for a critical assessment of the application of 'processing maps', discussed in the accompanying paper; C.S. Daniel, P. Jedrasiak, C.J. Peyton, J. Quinta da Fonseca, H.R. Shercliff, l. Bradley, P.D. Honniball, Quantifying Processing Map Uncertainties by Modelling the Hot-Compression Behaviour of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy, Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry: 19th International Symposium (2020) |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3374512 |
| Title | High Temperature Compression Studies of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy using Deformation Dilatometer |
| Description | Data recorded in uniaxial compression for a Zr-2.5Nb alloy deformed at temperatures of 650C, 675C, 700C, 725C, 750C, 775C, 800C, 825C and 850C, at strain rates of 10-2.5, 10-2, 10-1.5, 10-1, 10-0.5 and 1 s-1, to 50% height reduction, using TA Instruments DIL 805 A/D/T Quenching and Deformation Dilatometer. The cylindrical samples measured 5 mm diameter and 10 mm height. The Zr-2.5Nb specimens were machined from the centre of an as-received forged plate manufactured at Wah Chang, with a beta-transformed starting microstructure. Si3N43 platens were used for all tests, with graphite lubricant applied at the ends of the sample to minimise friction. Tests were conducted in an inert He gas atmosphere. Temperature was controlled using an S-Type thermocouple spot-welded to the centre of the samples. Data recorded at high acquisition frequency during deformation is stored in the 'deformation_files' folder and saved with the format: ' test number (001 to 191)_temperature_log(strain rate)_repeat number (01 or 02)'. Data in the 'basic_files' folder is recorded at a lower acquisition frequency, but includes recording of the entire themomechanical cycle, including both heating and cooling stages, as well as deformation. The 'software_files' folder includes metadata stored in the form of a parameter file (.par and .pad), along with a Windows data file (.D5D) that can be loaded and analysed within the dilatometer user interface. An accompanying python script will allow the user to plot the stress-strain data using the Jupyter Notebook application, along with generating 'processing maps' of the material. A critical assessment of the application of 'processing maps' is included in the accompanying paper; C.S. Daniel, P. Jedrasiak, C.J. Peyton, J. Quinta da Fonseca, H.R. Shercliff, l. Bradley, P.D. Honniball, Quantifying Processing Map Uncertainties by Modelling the Hot-Compression Behaviour of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy, Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry: 19th International Symposium (2020) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3374511 |
| Title | High Temperature Compression Studies of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy using Deformation Dilatometer |
| Description | Data recorded in uniaxial compression for a Zr-2.5Nb alloy deformed at temperatures of 650C, 675C, 700C, 725C, 750C, 775C, 800C, 825C and 850C, at strain rates of 10-2.5, 10-2, 10-1.5, 10-1, 10-0.5 and 1 s-1, to 50% height reduction, using TA Instruments DIL 805 A/D/T Quenching and Deformation Dilatometer. The cylindrical samples measured 5 mm diameter and 10 mm height. The Zr-2.5Nb specimens were machined from the centre of an as-received forged plate manufactured at Wah Chang, with a beta-transformed starting microstructure. Si3N43 platens were used for all tests, with graphite lubricant applied at the ends of the sample to minimise friction. Tests were conducted in an inert He gas atmosphere. Temperature was controlled using an S-Type thermocouple spot-welded to the centre of the samples. Data recorded at high acquisition frequency during deformation is stored in the 'deformation_files' folder and saved with the format: ' test number (001 to 191)_temperature_log(strain rate)_repeat number (01 or 02)'. Data in the 'basic_files' folder is recorded at a lower acquisition frequency, but includes recording of the entire themomechanical cycle, including both heating and cooling stages, as well as deformation. The 'software_files' folder includes metadata stored in the form of a parameter file (.par and .pad), along with a Windows data file (.D5D) that can be loaded and analysed within the dilatometer user interface. An accompanying python script will allow the user to plot the stress-strain data using the Jupyter Notebook application, along with generating 'processing maps' of the material. A critical assessment of the application of 'processing maps' is included in the accompanying paper; C.S. Daniel, P. Jedrasiak, C.J. Peyton, J. Quinta da Fonseca, H.R. Shercliff, l. Bradley, P.D. Honniball, Quantifying Processing Map Uncertainties by Modelling the Hot-Compression Behaviour of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy, Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry: 19th International Symposium (2020) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3374512 |
| Title | Image Correlation based Contactless Strain Measurement |
| Description | A MATLAB based script was developed for measuring the strain of uniaxial specimen without applying physical gauges on GLEEBLE material simulator. The lateral strain can be measured by automatic edge detection and target points movement tracking. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Non-contact measurement eliminated the effect of clamping strain gauge (e.g. the cold C-gauge would cause double necking of Ti64 tensile specimen under hot deformation conditions). In addition, this script is especially useful for hot deformation tests when specimens have surface oxidation, because the conventional Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique based on surface painted patterns cannot work well. |
| Title | Kampmann-Wagner numerical (KWN) code to track evolution of precipitates during thermomechanical processing |
| Description | The KWN code is helpful to predict the average size and volume fraction of precipitates for a given thermal history. The output from KWN model feeds directly into the strength and work hardening models to predict the mechanical response of the material. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The prototype KWN model was integrated with excess vacancy and dislocation density based model to simulate the evolution of precipitates during warm tensile test of AA 7021. A manuscript has been prepared where the effect of strain rate on precipitate growth and coarsening is discussed. Considering the capabilities of the model, further systematic experiments are designed where the effect of strain rate on precipitate nucleation can also be discussed. |
| Title | Lamellar and Bi-Modal Ti-64 Microstructure Images |
| Description | A collection of 40 optical micrographs of Titanium-64, taken from different regions of a forged billet. The images comprise two morphologies, bi-modal and lamellar. The first 20 images (Ti64_0.jpg - Ti64_19.jpg) correspond to the bi-modal morphology. The remaning 20 images (Ti64_20.jpg - Ti64_39.jpg) corrrespond to lamellar. This dataset was comprised to test machine learning algorithms for classification of microstructures. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 7 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5714384 |
| Title | Large EBSD Dataset of Forged Ti64 |
| Description | An extremely large EBSD dataset - obtained from an alpha + beta deformed forging measuring approximately 7 x 5 cm with 45'268'880 data points and 68% coverage. Sample prep conducted by Nicholas Byres, EBSD microscopy conducted by Alec Davis. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 52 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5734897 |
| Title | LightForm-group/surfalex_data_explorer: v1.0.1 |
| Description | This repository contains interactive analysis to supplement our manuscript : 'A novel integrated framework for reproducible formability predictions using virtual materials testing', A. J. Plowman, P. Jedrasiak, T. Jailin, P. Crowther, S. Mishra, P. Shanthraj, J. Quinta da Fonseca, submitted to Materials Open Research. The manuscript describes the development of a new computational framework for formability studies, MatFlow. We apply this framework to study the formability of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) alloy. In this repository, we include Jupyter notebooks that can be used to interactively explore the experimental data. Data and analysis from the DIC, EBSD, and forming limit experiments can be examined. We also include a Jupyter notebook to explore the five MatFlow workflows that we developed in support of this work. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 3 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7307974#.ZAtGFC2l1QI |
| Title | Measuring Bulk Crystallographic Texture from Ti-6Al-4V Hot-Rolled Sample Matrices using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction (Results Dataset) |
| Description | A dataset of crystallographic texture results for both a (hexagonal close packed, hcp) and ß (body-centred cubic, bcc) phases, measured from 31 different hot-rolled Ti-6Al-4V (Ti-64) materials and 3 differently orientated samples using synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 1 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7477473#.ZAs_dy2l1QI |
| Title | Modelling dynamic precipitation in pre-aged aluminium alloys |
| Description | Calculation of precipitation kinetics under deformation This repository contains the data plotted in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118036 as well as the code used to generate them. The code can be run reading the instructions contained in README.txt |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 31 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6090249 |
| Title | Modelling the Effect of Deformation on Discontinuous Precipitation in Magnesium-Aluminium Alloy |
| Description | Data (Matlab .fig format) and visualization output from DAMASK (Paraview) for paper "Modelling the Effect of Deformation on Discontinuous Precipitation in Magnesium-Aluminium Alloy" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 2 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6470765 |
| Title | Nakazima measurements of Surfalex HF (AA6016A) |
| Description | This dataset contains Nakazima tests of Surfalex HF (AA6016A), an aluminium alloy commonly used in automotive applications. Six sample shapes with neck widths of 10, 20, 40, 60 and 120 mm as well as a full disk, were tested to study different stress state conditions. The samples were first cleaned and spray-painted with a white undercoating and a black speckle pattern to facilitate 3D surface displacement measurements. To ensure that the samples did not slip during testing, a clamp force of 200 kN was applied. The speed of the hemispherical punch, which had a diameter of 100 mm, was maintained at 1 mm per minute for all tests. A graphite lubricant was used to reduce friction between the sample and the punch. Images were recorded during the tests using the GOM-ARAMIS software. The acquisition frequency was set to 2 Hz for the first fifty stages, and was then increased to 20 Hz until the samples fractured. This was done to obtain more information during the localisation phase, where the strain rate starts to increase. Three repeat experiments were carried out for each sample geometry. The raw images are not contained in this dataset. The stereo-correlation analysis, for which we used a subset size of 19 pixels and a step size of 16 pixels, was performed using GOM Correlate Professional 2019. In accordance with the ISO 12004 standard, the major and minor true strains were then extracted from three equidistant, parallel lines, perpendicular to the crack direction and separated from each other by 2 mm. These 3 lines are labelled "Section zero", "Section one" and "Section two" in the dataset. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 6 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4926356 |
| Title | Small Angle X-ray scattering data analysis |
| Description | This MATLAB based code is helpful for analysing small angle X-ray scattering data in terms of Guinier and Kratky plots and provide information about precipitate size and relative volume fraction |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This model has helped in analysing in-situ SAXS data obtained from Diamond beamline to study the effect of strain rate on dynamic precipitation kinetics |
| Title | Surfalex HF formability study - Workflow 1 - Generate volume element |
| Description | This MatFlow workflow is the first in a set of eight workflows developed during our formability study of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) material. In this first workflow, we generated a representative volume element (RVE) for the Surfalex HF material. To do this, we sampled 2000 orientations from a CTF file generated from EBSD measurements on the sheet RD-TD plane. The MTEX toolbox was used to sample the texture. The grain morphology was approximated using a Voronoi tessellation that was subsequently stretched by a factor of 1.5 in the RD direction, to mimic the slight grain elongation that was observed. The pre-processing tools in the DAMASK package were used to generated the RVE. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 6 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7307576#.ZAtI4y2l1QI |
| Title | Surfalex HF formability study - Workflow 2 - Fit single crystal parameters |
| Description | This MatFlow workflow is the second in a set of eight workflows developed during our formability study of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) material. In this workflow, we calibrated crystal plasticity (CP) parameters using experimental data. The hardening coefficient, the initial and maximum CRSS values, and the hardening exponent, as defined in the CP phenomenological power law adopted by DAMASK were optimised. Starting from trial guesses for these parameters, we optimised the parameters with respect to the experimental stress-strain curve of the Surfalex HF material, using a Levenberg-Marquardt procedure. At each iteration of the process, N+1 CP simulations were performed (for N fitting parameters). Five iterations were used in total. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 5 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7307580#.ZAtIry2l1QI |
| Title | Surfalex HF formability study - Workflow 3 - Fit yield functions |
| Description | This MatFlow workflow is the third in a set of eight workflows developed during our formability study of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) material. In this workflow, we fitted three anisotropic yield functions to yield stress data obtained from a large set of multiaxial crystal plasticity simulations. The fitted yield functions were: the Hill1948 yield criterion, the Barlat Yld91 (6-parameter) yield function, and the Barlat Yld2004-18p (18-parameter) yield function. DAMASK was used to perform these simulations. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 7 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7307582#.ZAtIeS2l1QI |
| Title | Surfalex HF formability study - Workflow 4 - Estimate hardening curves |
| Description | This MatFlow workflow is the fourth in a set of eight workflows developed during our formability study of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) material. In this workflow, we estimated the plastic stress-strain curves of the material during different loading conditions, using crystal plasticity simulations (via DAMASK). In turn, this table was used a "plastic table" Abaqus input for the fifth and final workflow. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 4 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7307588#.ZAtILC2l1QI |
| Title | Surfalex HF formability study - Workflow 5 - Simulate Marciniak-Kuczynski |
| Description | This group of MatFlow workflows is the fifth in a set of eight workflow groups developed during our formability study of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) material. In these workflows, we used Abaqus to perform deformation of a grooved sheet using the finite element method, for different displacement boundary conditions and different groove angles (relative to the major loading direction). Thus, we performed a numerical Marciniak-Kuczynski analysis on the Surfalex material, which allowed us to predict the forming limit curve. We also include various sensitivity studies. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 7 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7307590#.ZAtGvi2l1QI |
| Title | Surfalex HF formability study - Workflow 6 - Generate random volume element |
| Description | This MatFlow workflow is the sixth in a set of eight workflows developed during our formability study of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) material. In this workflow, we generate a comparison volume element from a random texture and equiaxed microstructure. This RVE is used in a comparison of the simulated Lankford coefficients between the Surfalex model RVE and this "random" RVE. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 4 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7307637#.ZAtHgi2l1QI |
| Title | Surfalex HF formability study - Workflow 7 - Lankford coefficient |
| Description | This group of MatFlow workflows is the seventh in a set of eight workflow groups developed during our formability study of the Surfalex HF (AA6016A) material. In these workflows, we perform uniaxial tensile tests on two RVEs: the Surfalex RVE and an RVE with a random texture. We use this data to predict the Lankford coefficient in both cases. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 5 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7307639#.ZAtHNS2l1QI |
| Title | Synchrotron Diffraction Data Recorded during High Temperature Deformation of Ti-64 |
| Description | A caked synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD) dataset, recording diffraction pattern rings during the high temperature deformation of a Ti-64 sample. The sample was deformed in uniaxial tension at 950°C and a strain rate of about 0.02 s-1, using an electro-thermal mechanical tester (ETMT) mounted on the I12:JEEP beamline at Diamond Light Source. Results were recorded using a high energy 89 keV synchrotron X-ray beam and a fast acquisition rate (10 Hz) detector. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The results of this experiment were published in a conference paper for The 14th World Conference on Titanium, presented on June 10th - 14th, 2019 in Nantes France, to be published in MATEC Web of Conferences. A preprint can be found in; Daniel, Christopher Stuart, Nguyen, Chi-Toan, Atkinson, Michael D., & Quinta da Fonseca, João. (2019, August 20). Direct Evidence for a Dynamic Phase Transformation during High Temperature Deformation in Ti-64 [Preprint]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3381183 |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3630511 |
| Title | Synchrotron Diffraction Data Recorded during High Temperature Deformation of Ti-64 |
| Description | A caked synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD) dataset, recording diffraction pattern rings during the high temperature deformation of a Ti-64 sample. The sample was deformed in uniaxial tension at 950°C and a strain rate of about 0.02 s-1, using an electro-thermal mechanical tester (ETMT) mounted on the I12:JEEP beamline at Diamond Light Source. Results were recorded using a high energy 89 keV synchrotron X-ray beam and a fast acquisition rate (10 Hz) detector. The results of this experiment are presented in the paper; Daniel, Christopher Stuart, Nguyen, Chi-Toan, Atkinson, Michael D., & Quinta da Fonseca, João. (2019, August 20). Direct Evidence for a Dynamic Phase Transformation during High Temperature Deformation in Ti-64 [Preprint]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3381183 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3630510 |
| Title | Synchrotron Diffraction Data Recorded during High Temperature Deformation of Ti-64 |
| Description | A caked synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD) dataset, recording diffraction pattern rings during the high temperature deformation of a Ti-64 sample. The sample was deformed in uniaxial tension at 950°C and a strain rate of about 0.02 s-1, using an electro-thermal mechanical tester (ETMT) mounted on the I12:JEEP beamline at Diamond Light Source. Results were recorded using a high energy 89 keV synchrotron X-ray beam and a fast acquisition rate (10 Hz) detector. The results of this experiment are presented in the paper; Daniel, Christopher Stuart, Nguyen, Chi-Toan, Atkinson, Michael D., & Quinta da Fonseca, João. (2019, August 20). Direct Evidence for a Dynamic Phase Transformation during High Temperature Deformation in Ti-64 [Preprint]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3381183 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3630511 |
| Title | Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Dataset - Measuring Bulk Crystallographic Texture from Differently-Orientated Ti-6Al-4V Samples |
| Description | A dataset of raw synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD) images, recording crystallographic texture from two different pre-processed Ti-6Al-4V (Ti-64) materials, analysing six differently orientated samples from each material. The aim of the work was to provide a large dataset for testing and improving crystallographic texture refinement from SXRD patterns, with the use of different computational fitting methods. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 38 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7311306#.ZAtErS2l1QI |
| Title | Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Results - Measuring Bulk Crystallographic Texture from Differently-Orientated Ti-6Al-4V Samples |
| Description | A dataset of crystallographic texture results for both a (hexagonal close packed, hcp) and ß (body-centred cubic, bcc) phases, measured from six differently orientated Ti-6Al-4V (Ti-64) samples, using two different analysis techniques of synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD) data. The texture results are produced from two refinement methods for fitting intensities from SXRD pattern images; an established Rietveld refinement method using the software package MAUD (Materials Analysis Using Diffraction) and a new Fourier-based peak fitting method from the Continuous-Peak-Fit Python package. The texture results were also compared with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) measurements from a single sample orientation. The SXRD and EBSD textures were analysed using MTEX to enable a direct comparison of the pole figures, orientation distribution functions (ODFs) and numerical values for the texture indices. The SXRD texture is calculated from each of the six different sample orientations, a combination of the six sample orientations, and in a batch processing method for calculating spatially-resolved texture variation from 387 individual X-Y stage-scan SXRD measurements across one of the samples. The texture variation measured using stage-scan SXRD is directly compared with EBSD, by splitting up the EBSD map into an equivalent grid matrix using an automated script in MTEX. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 2 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7319352#.ZAs_9i2l1QI |
| Title | Tensile tests of Surfalex HF (AA6016A) |
| Description | This dataset contains tensile test measurements of Surfalex HF (AA6016A), an aluminium alloy commonly used in automotive applications. Tensile testing was performed at room temperature using a 5 kN Instron universal testing machine. The tensile tests were performed at a constant strain rate of 5e-4 per second and controlled with a Strain Master DIC system by LaVision. The gauge length of the samples was 25 mm long and 5 mm wide. To study the anisotropy of the material, the samples were cut along different orientations with respect to the sheet rolling direction. Five angles were tested: 0, 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees. The tensile specimens were polished and then thoroughly cleaned to obtain contamination-free surfaces. In order to perform DIC measurements, the specimens were painted with a white undercoating and a black speckle pattern. Images were recorded at a frequency of 1 Hz during the tests and the DIC analysis was performed using the LaVision commercial software. The data was captured using a subset size of 31 pixels, a step size of 10 pixels, and the displacement field was calculated with reference to the initial, undeformed image. The data extracted from the experiments were the force values from the load cell and the corresponding displacement field measured by DIC. Two experiments were carried out for each angle. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 14 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4926423 |
| Title | The evolution of abnormally coarse grain structures in beta-annealed Ti-6Al%-4V% rolled plates, observed by in-situ investigation. |
| Description | The complete data set of EBSD maps used for the publication: The evolution of abnormally coarse grain structures in beta-annealed Ti-6Al%-4V% rolled plates, observed by in-situ investigation. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 14 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5564377#.ZAtSKi2l1QI |
| Title | Visualizations for paper entitled, "Discontinuous Precipitation in Mg-Al Alloy Studied in 3-Dimensions |
| Description | - Author manuscript version of paper entitled, "Discontinuous Precipitation in Mg-Al Alloy Studied in 3-Dimensions". - Visualization for paper entitled, "Discontinuous Precipitation in Mg-Al Alloy Studied in 3-Dimensions". This enables the 3D dataset to be visualized using the free software package Paraview (https://www.paraview.org). Instructions are provided. - Animation created of 3D visualization (using Aviso) NOTE: The full set of raw data used to create the results in the paper is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7108545 |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 26 unique downloads by others outside of the research group as of March 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7112791#.ZAtJGy2l1QI |
| Title | compression-dilatometer-analysis-ZrNb: a python script for analysing Zr-2.5Nb compression dilatometer data |
| Description | A python script for plotting flow stress data from a compression dilatometer, for analysing the high temperature deformation behaviour of a Zr-2.5Nb alloy at different temperatures and strain rates. A tool for plotting and critically evaluating 'processing maps' is also included. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The python script allowed for a critical assessment of the application of 'processing maps', discussed in the accompanying paper; C.S. Daniel, P. Jedrasiak, C.J. Peyton, J. Quinta da Fonseca, H.R. Shercliff, l. Bradley, P.D. Honniball, Quantifying Processing Map Uncertainties by Modelling the Hot-Compression Behaviour of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy, Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry: 19th International Symposium (2020) |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3673105 |
| Title | xrdfit: a python package for fitting SXRD diffraction spectra |
| Description | A python package for fitting peaks from synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD) experimental data for single and dual-phase Zr and Ti alloys. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The package was used to analyse SXRD data and published in a conference paper for The 14th World Conference on Titanium, presented on June 10th - 14th, 2019 in Nantes France, to be published in MATEC Web of Conferences. A preprint can be found in; Daniel, Christopher Stuart, Nguyen, Chi-Toan, Atkinson, Michael D., & Quinta da Fonseca, João. (2019, August 20). Direct Evidence for a Dynamic Phase Transformation during High Temperature Deformation in Ti-64 [Preprint]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3381183 Other journal papers are expected to be published using these analysis scripts soon. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3621299 |
| Description | Atomistic Simulation of Hydrogen Embrittlement Mechanisms in 7xxx Series Aluminium Alloys |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Operations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Atomistic Simulation of Hydrogen Embrittlement Mechanisms in 7xxx Series Aluminium Alloys by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Atomistic Simulation of Hydrogen Embrittlement Mechanisms in 7xxx Series Aluminium Alloys |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into into the Atomistic Simulation of Hydrogen Embrittlement Mechanisms in 7xxx Series Aluminium Alloys, by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Chemo-mechanical Modelling of Hydrogen Diffusion and Fracture in wrought 7xxx Series Al Alloys |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Operations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Chemo-mechanical Modelling of Hydrogen Diffusion and Fracture in wrought 7xxx Series Al Alloys by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Chemo-mechanical Modelling of Hydrogen Diffusion and Fracture in wrought 7xxx Series Al Alloys |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into into the Chemo-mechanical Modelling of Hydrogen Diffusion and Fracture in wrought 7xxx Series Al Alloys, by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with Sheffield University for Servotest |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Ti64 and Ti407 samples tested in hot-compression on dilatometer and Gleeble 3500 thermomechanical testers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Conducting hot-compression tests on Servotest thermomechanical tester, to help eliminate uneven sample heating and prevent barrelling of Ti alloy samples during deformation. The results will help to quantify the effects of inhomogeneous deformation by comparing the stress-strain response of the material on different equipment. |
| Impact | A paper is hoped to result from the work. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Control of Abnormal Grain Structures in Titanium Forgings |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Operations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Control of Abnormal Grain Structures in Titanium Forgings by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Control of Abnormal Grain Structures in Ti Forgings Large Ti structural forgings, used in aero structures, are usually beta heat treated to produce an optimized microstructure with high toughness. On occasion, unwanted abnormal grain structures can develop during heat treatment, which can affect the properties of the material. This project aimed to understand the origins of these abnormal microstructures. Using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis, it was found that these defects originate in regions of very strong texture that develop during hot working. This new understanding can be used to modify the processing route during forging, and avoid the development of abnormal grains. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Corrosion control of 3xxx Heat Exchanger Material |
| Organisation | Norsk Hydro |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Corrosion control of 3xxx Heat Exchanger Material by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Still recruiting to post |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Crystal Plasticity and Microstructure Evolution for Rolled Aluminium Sheet - L.Gonzalez |
| Organisation | Novelis |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | When bending is applied to Al sheets, early failure may appear between grain boundaries on the surface deformed in tension. The cause is still unknown, but it has been observed that different textures lead to different propensities to failure. In this project, Crystal Plasticity Modelling (CPM) is being used to study the relationship between bending failure and texture, focusing especially on the effect of texture on stress and strain localisation. The crystal plasticity model uses DAMASK, formable and MTEX. Their inputs are textures measured with Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) and experimental tensile test curves. Then, comparisons between the results from the simulations under different tension modes and different textures can be made to draw conclusions in the context of failure in bending. Simulations of uniaxial and plain strain tension for three different textured samples will be carried out. The stress and strain tensors at every point of a representative volume element generated by the model can be extracted and visualised with Paraview. This information is very valuable to study the initialisation of cracks, which it is suspected to be caused by strain localisation and the shear bands formation in the alloys studied so far. Other factors such as heat treatments, voids and hard particles could also have a strong influence in the initialisation of cracks and they could also be included in the model throughout this PhD project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | none yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Crystal plasticity of Alpha-beta processing |
| Organisation | Otto Fuchs |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into Crystal plasticity of Alpha-beta processing, by research of full time PDRA conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PDRA support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Designing SCC Resitant Forging Alloys |
| Organisation | Otto Fuchs |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Designing SCC Resitant Forging Alloys by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Designing SCC Resitant Forging Alloys |
| Organisation | Otto Fuchs |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into Designing SCC Resitant Forging Alloys, by research of PDRA conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PDRA support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Developing a microstructural fingerprint of Ti alloys - metallurgy in the information age |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Developing a microstructural fingerprint of Ti alloys - metallurgy in the information age - by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Development of Novel Corrosion Testing Methods for Anticorrosion Performance Evaluation of Treated Light Alloys |
| Organisation | PTDF Petroleum Technology Development Fund Nigeria |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Development of Novel Corrosion Testing Methods for Anticorrosion Performance Evaluation of Treated Light Alloys by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Digital Twin of abnormally coarse grain structures in critical titanium forgings for military aircraft applications - A.Ha |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | In this projects, we are using novel experimental methods and computational models developed in LightForm to explain and predict the development of abnormal grain structures in Ti components used in defence aerospace applications. The main industrial partner is DSTL but the project is part of a multinational defence collaboration, which includes partners in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | No impact yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EAC Initiation In Wrought Aerospace Plate |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Operations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Initiation In Wrought Aerospace Plate by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | EAC Initiation in Wrought Aerospace Plate |
| Organisation | BIAM Foundation |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into EAC Initiation In Wrought Aerospace Plate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide support and development, industrial expertise |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | EAC of New Generation 7xxx Al-Aerospace Alloys: 4D Imaging of Initiation Processes |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Operations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of of New Generation 7xxx Al-Aerospace Alloys: 4D Imaging of Initiation Processes by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | EAC of New Generation 7xxx Al-Aerospace Alloys; 4D Imaging of Initiation Processes |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into EAC of New Generation 7xxx Al-Aerospace Alloys; 4D Imaging of Initiation Processes by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Formability and Performance of Circular 75R Al Alloys |
| Organisation | Norsk Hydro |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Formability and Performance of Circular 75R Al Alloys by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Generating Forming Limit Curves at Hot Sheet Forming conditions - Formability assessment for metallic sheet materials under hot stamping conditions |
| Organisation | Impression Technologies Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We provide testing methodology which includes biaxel testing, guidance and support to colleagues |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide materials and facilities to carrying out testing, provide technical support via 2 monthly meetings |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Improving the Hot Form Quench (HFQ) process in aluminium alloys |
| Organisation | Impression Technologies Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This project is aimed at studying the effect of different post-forming ageing treatments on the microstructure and thus mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of HFQ parts. For this purpose, commercially produced HFQ automotive parts have been supplied by the company Impression Technologies Ltd. The microstructure and performance of different regions of these parts are being examined to understand the interaction between the forming process variables (temperature and local strain history), microstructure and performance. For the microstructural characterisation, a combination of complementary techniques, including scanning and transmission electron microscopy is being used. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Impression Technologies Ltd have produced and supplied HFQ automotive parts, contributing to performance of mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of HFQ parts. In additional provided industrial expertise, and direct PhD student support will occur with our partners at Imperial College London. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Investigating abnormal grain structures in titanium - 6% aluminium - 4% vanadium hot worked aerospace components |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into investigating abnormal grain structures, by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Low Cost Rolling of Mg-alloy sheets - A novel and cost effective method to manufacture magnesium alloy sheets |
| Organisation | Magnesium Elektron |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Production of technical data - new research findings and knowledge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technical advice and expertise, materials and samples |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Micromechanics of dwell fatigue in Ti alloys - J.Sharples |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Cold dwell causes creep deformation to occur at room temperature, lowering the overall fatigue life of the compressor disk. In the Aerospace industry control is of paramount importance, hence unexpected failure of this kind is unacceptable. My work involves analysing the microscopic strain localisation and slip activity during cold creep using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) based high resolution digital image correlation (HRDIC). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | No impact yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Microstructural effects on environmentally assisted cracking in model 7xxx alloys - J.Srivastava |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The objective of this project is to investigate the effect of alloy composition and metallurgical state on the environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) behaviour of 7xxx Al alloys. Material with systematically varying alloy chemistry and microstructures will first be lab cast. The thermomechanical processing of cast alloys will be modified. Large area EBSD scans and TEM will be used to characterize the microstructure. EAC performance will be investigated by 4-pt bend testing in humid air conditions to quantify EAC initiation time and crack growth rates of the alloys produced, and post-mortem 3D imaging of cracked samples. Furthermore, analysis of the fracture surfaces to characterize EAC initiation sites and microstructurally short-crack propagation will be performed. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | No impact yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Norsk Hydro collaboration: Sustainability of Aluminium Production and Products |
| Organisation | Norsk Hydro |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | PhD CASE studentship: experimental work and through-process modelling on heat-treatable aluminium alloys subjected to thermomechanical processing, to predict and test the procesability and performance of recycling-friendly compositions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Materials for testing, access to in-house process modelling software, technica; discussions and meetings |
| Impact | No outputs yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Novel Aluminium Alloys for Defence Applications |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Department | Human Systems Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Novel Aluminium Alloys for Defence Applications by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Novel Aluminium Alloys for Defence Applications |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Novel Aluminium Alloys for Defence Applications by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Novel Aluminium Alloys for Defence Applications |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into Novel Aluminium Alloys for Defence Applications by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Novel Hot Stamping of Ti Alloy Panel Components - Development of novel hot stamping process of titanium alloy |
| Organisation | Doncasters Group Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Meet every 2 months providing technical support, use of facilities and dedicated PhD student for project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide materials, technical support, expertise, use of facilities, technical data, trial and provide samples. Attendance at PhD review meetings. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Novel Hot Stamping of Ti Alloy Panel Components - Development of novel hot stamping process of titanium alloy |
| Organisation | Doncasters Group Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Novel Hot Stamping of Ti Alloy Panel Components - Development of novel hot stamping process of titanium alloy by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Novel Zirconium Refined Magnesium Alloys - S.Odell |
| Organisation | Luxfer MEL Technologies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The microstructures of novel rare earth containing magnesium alloys are being controlled through heat treatments and characterised using SEM and TEM. These microstructures are then being correlated to mechanical properties including impact toughness and hardness, and corrosion rate in order to optimise the performance of these long period stacking ordered phase (LPSO) forming alloys. Zirconium refinement and its' effects on the phases formed is also being investigated and again correlated to mechanical and corrosion properties. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | none yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | OAAM |
| Organisation | Innoval Technology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into OAAM, by research of PDRA conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PDRA support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Performance testing for materials produced by novel production routes for automotive light-weighting |
| Organisation | Otto Fuchs |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Materials testing invoked in this project aims to highlight best practice of these novel techniques, improving understanding of the material properties and microstructural evolution through processing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Direct funding for PhD and PDRA time, support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SCC in AA7050 alouminium alloy |
| Organisation | Novelis |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of in AA7050 alouminium alloy by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Impact | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Slip Localisation in Forming High Strength Al / Warm forming of 7xxx alloys |
| Organisation | Constellium |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research via full time PhD, ongoing dialogue including monthly meetings, onsite visits, to explore the options for Slip Localisation in Forming High Strength Al / Warm forming of 7xxx alloys |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supplying materials and in-kind support, relating directly to access to facilities and project management. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Surface Corrosion of Wrought Alloys |
| Organisation | Otto Fuchs |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Surface Corrosion of Wrought Alloys by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Tailored Properties in Al Automotive Body Sheet with Taper-Rolled Geometry |
| Organisation | Primetals technologies ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into Tailored Properties in Al Automotive Body Sheet with Taper-Rolled Geometry, by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to facilities and project management, materials and samples, regular progress updates and meeting |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Tailored Properties in Al Automotive Body Sheet with Taper-Rolled Geometry |
| Organisation | Primetals technologies ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Tailored Properties in Al Automotive Body Sheet with Taper-Rolled Geometry by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | The Effect of Accelerated Ageing of Hybrid-Hot Formed Aluminium Automotive Panels on Corrosion Resistance |
| Organisation | Impression Technologies Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | PDRA and PhD research time, via ongoing dialogue including monthly meetings, onsite visits, to explore the options for accelerating ageing kinetics experimental simulations and corrosion resistance. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Industry expertise, research and development - ongoing dialogue including progress meetings, onsite visits. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | The Effect of Accelerated Ageing of Hybrid-Hot Formed Aluminum Automotive Panels on Corrosion Resistance |
| Organisation | Impression Technologies Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of The Effect of Accelerated Ageing of Hybrid-Hot Formed Aluminum Automotive Panels on Corrosion Resistance by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Blank Transfer Effects: The cooling during the blank transfer operation in HFQ® may reduce the post-treatment mechanical properties - this has been shown to be negligible in alloy 6082, but may be significant for highly quench sensitive alloy 7075. A substantial loss of post-ageing was found for the sensitive temperature range, from 250 °C to 400 °C for 7075 sheet. The strength loss increases with increasing delay in the holding time. Dislocation Density Quantification for HFQ® This work visualised and quantified the dislocation distributions after hot deformation, and clarifies the key mechanisms, providing valuable data for calibrating physically-based material models. The overall dislocation density increased with applied plastic strain. High temperatures and low strain-rates reduced the accumulation of geometrically-necessary dislocations. Quench induced Precipitation Some precipitation occurs on grain boundaries during the quench in HFQ, particularly in regions of the part that experience the slowest cooling rate in the critical temperature range for quench sensitivity. The size of quench induced precipitates remains small and their volume fraction is low. Grain boundary precipitates have no effect on the subsequent age hardening response. Rapid Ageing for HFQ® A rapid ageing treatment was developed to reduce the ageing time from 9 h to 20 min for AA6082. The strength achieved was 90% of the nominal T6 value. Rapid ageing produces a somewhat different precipitate size distribution compared to standard ageing, but the differences only have a small effect on properties. Corrosion and Fracture Behaviour The corrosion behaviour of 6082 HFQ sheet in both standard and rapid aged conditions is comparable to unformed T6 temper material using standard corrosion tests. Regardless of position in the part or the amount of grain boundary precipitation, the fracture mode for 6082 after HFQ and ageing remains transgranular and ductile. HFQ combined with rapid ageing can be successfully used to form parts from medium strength aluminium alloys, with greatly reduced cycle times compared to conventional sheet forming. The HFQ process leads to some differences in microstructure in formed parts, compared to standard T6 aged sheet, but these differences have only a small effect on the properties, at least for AA6082. Work is ongoing to understand the effect of the HFQ process on more complex properties of importance in the more quench-sensitive 7xxx alloys (7075), including the resistance to stress corrosion cracking. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | The Influence of Combined Oxidation and Fatigue Conditions on the Endurance of Ti Alloys |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into into the Influence of Combined Oxidation and Fatigue Conditions on the Endurance of Ti Alloys, by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | The effect of microstructure on the ductility of Ti alloys |
| Organisation | Timet UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of the effect of microstructure on the ductility of Ti alloys by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise |
| Impact | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | The effect of microstructure on the ductility of Ti alloys |
| Organisation | Timet UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into into the effect of microstructure on the ductility of Ti alloys, by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Direct funding for PhD time, support and development, industrial expertise. Provision of both stock and novel processed materials. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Through Process Modelling for Sustainable Aluminium |
| Organisation | Innoval Technology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Through Process Modelling for Sustainable Aluminium by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | UKAEA collaboration on superplastic forming parts |
| Organisation | UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are working with UKAEA to explore the feasibility of superplastic forming and diffusion bonding lightweight alloys for future fusion reactor parts. This work just started 3 months ago. Progress is on the right track. Will report more in the next report. |
| Collaborator Contribution | 1. Explain and describe the industrial needs for future fusion nuclear reactor manufacturing problems. 2. provide guidance for PhD and MSc student. 3. Ordered materials for the project 4. discussion future proposal development |
| Impact | This is just started a few months ago. Limited outputs have been generated but will be reported in the next report |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Understanding EAC In Wrought Aerospace Plate |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Operations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research of Understanding EAC In Wrought Aerospace Plate by research of full time PhD student conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding EAC In Wrought Aerospace Plate |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual output and conducted research into Understanding EAC In Wrought Aerospace Plate, by research of full time PDRA conducting dedicated research over life of project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PDRA student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | Early stages of research and projects, therefore no outputs or outcomes to be reported at this project point. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Understanding micro-texture heterogeneity effects on the micromechanical behaviour of Ti aerospace forgings - P.Curran |
| Organisation | Airbus Group |
| Department | Airbus Operations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | When forging large billets of titanium, microtextured regions can form. After doing a heat treatment above the beta tranus, some grains can grow abnormally coarse. These abnormally coarse grains are expected to affect the mechanical properties such as strength and fatigue strength. Through computational modelling, using LightForm's in-house code MatFlow and experimental based work like in situ digital image correlation while applying tension. The mechanical properties are to be understood, specifically how and where cracks are likely to form. Some initial modelling results show that strain is highly localised in the grain boundary alpha between the abnormally coarse grains, and it is expected that this localised strain will be the region for crack formation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide samples, materials, direct PhD student support and development, industrial expertise. |
| Impact | none yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Title | A METHOD FOR FORMING CURVED LENGTHS OF EXTRUDED PROFILES/SECTIONS IN METAL ALLOYS |
| Description | A method of extruding a material, comprising providing the material into an extrusion chamber of an extrusion apparatus, wherein the extrusion chamber comprises an extrusion orifice and the extrusion apparatus comprises a first compression element and a second compression element in communication with the interior of the extrusion chamber, the first and second compression elements being independently movable relative to the extrusion chamber, moving at least one of the first and second compression elements to compress the material within the extrusion chamber and cause a velocity gradient in the extrusion material across the extrusion orifice and extruding the material through the extrusion orifice such that the velocity gradient forms an extrudate with a curved profile. |
| IP Reference | WO2018206960 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2018 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Notable impacts which have arisen from this development is the enabling of Lightweight curved extrusion profiles, to now be manufactured for the first time, which previously could not be produced using any other existing technologies. |
| Title | A METHOD FOR FORMING SHEET MATERIAL COMPONENTS |
| Description | A method for forming a component from a Ti-alloy or Ni-alloy sheet material. The method comprising heat treating the sheet material, wherein a final temperature of the sheet material is above 100°C below a ß-transus temperature of the sheet material. The sheet material is formed into a predefined configuration between two dies. Forming is completed before the temperature of the sheet material reaches a start temperature for ß to martensite transformation within the sheet material and wherein the temperature of the dies is less than a finish temperature for ß to martensite transformation within the sheet material. |
| IP Reference | WO2019038534 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2019 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | To enable complex shift lightwieigfth componantds to be formed for the first time, which previously could not be formed using any other exisiting technologies |
| Title | CIPHER - Calphad Integrated PHase-field solvER |
| Description | CIPHER is a phase-field simulation code for microstructure evolution in multi-component alloy systems. Features include: - Automatic parallel adaptive mesh refinement. - Local truncation error estimates and adaptive time stepping. - Designed for large number of phases (10-10000), with constant computational complexity, i.e. computational cost is independent of the number of phases. - Efficient grand-canonical-based phase-field implementation with direct use of Compound-Energy-Formalism and other CALPHAD thermodynamic models for multi-component systems. - Designed for MPI parallelization and scalability. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | CIPHER has been used to model: - Columnar to equiaxed transition during solidification of advanced titanium alloys - Quench induced grain-boundary precipitation in 7xxx series aluminium alloys - Interaction of defects and chemistry in complex alloys. |
| URL | https://github.com/micmog/CIPHER |
| Title | Datalight |
| Description | A python package for uploading records to the Zenodo data repository. It has both a graphical interface and a scriptable one. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This will be used by project members to upload research outputs to the Zenodo repository. |
| URL | https://github.com/LightForm-group/datalight |
| Title | DefDAP |
| Description | Deformation Data Analysis in Python (DefDAP) is an open source software package for the joint analysis of high resolution digital image correlation (HRDIC) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) datasets. These techniques allow the measurement of surface deformation and microstructure of a deformed crystalline material and the software facilitates linking observed local deformation to the microstructure features. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The software has been used to analyse deformation data in many studies on materials including alloys of Ni, Al, Ti, Zr and Mg. |
| URL | https://github.com/MechMicroMan/DefDAP |
| Title | compression-dilatometer-analysis-ZrNb: a python script for analysing Zr-2.5Nb compression dilatometer data |
| Description | A python script for analysing compression dilatometer data, allowing the user to plot the stress-strain data and for generating 'processing maps' of a material. The script was used to analyse data recorded in uniaxial compression for a Zr-2.5Nb alloy deformed at temperatures of 650C, 675C, 700C, 725C, 750C, 775C, 800C, 825C and 850C, at strain rates of 10-2.5, 10-2, 10-1.5, 10-1, 10-0.5 and 1 s-1, to 50% height reduction, using TA Instruments DIL 805 A/D/T Quenching and Deformation Dilatometer. The data for this experiment can be downloaded from; Daniel, Christopher Stuart, Peyton, Christian J., & Quinta da Fonseca, João. (2019). High Temperature Compression Studies of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy using Deformation Dilatometer [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3374512 A critical assessment of the application of 'processing maps' is included in the accompanying paper; C.S. Daniel, P. Jedrasiak, C.J. Peyton, J. Quinta da Fonseca, H.R. Shercliff, l. Bradley, P.D. Honniball, Quantifying Processing Map Uncertainties by Modelling the Hot-Compression Behaviour of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy, Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry: 19th International Symposium (2020) |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3673104 |
| Title | compression-dilatometer-analysis-ZrNb: a python script for analysing Zr-2.5Nb compression dilatometer data |
| Description | A python script for analysing compression dilatometer data, allowing the user to plot the stress-strain data and for generating 'processing maps' of a material. The script was used to analyse data recorded in uniaxial compression for a Zr-2.5Nb alloy deformed at temperatures of 650C, 675C, 700C, 725C, 750C, 775C, 800C, 825C and 850C, at strain rates of 10-2.5, 10-2, 10-1.5, 10-1, 10-0.5 and 1 s-1, to 50% height reduction, using TA Instruments DIL 805 A/D/T Quenching and Deformation Dilatometer. The data for this experiment can be downloaded from; Daniel, Christopher Stuart, Peyton, Christian J., & Quinta da Fonseca, João. (2019). High Temperature Compression Studies of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy using Deformation Dilatometer [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3374512 A critical assessment of the application of 'processing maps' is included in the accompanying paper; C.S. Daniel, P. Jedrasiak, C.J. Peyton, J. Quinta da Fonseca, H.R. Shercliff, l. Bradley, P.D. Honniball, Quantifying Processing Map Uncertainties by Modelling the Hot-Compression Behaviour of a Zr-2.5Nb Alloy, Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry: 19th International Symposium (2020) |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3673105 |
| Title | matflow |
| Description | matflow is a Python application designed to assist researchers with generating transparent, reproducible materials science. It segments a computational science workflow into scientific units called "tasks". Users can provide implementations of tasks using a variety of "methods" and "implementations". For example, if we would like to simulate a tensile test, we would build a task called "simulate tensile test", with which we might associate a method "crystal plasticity". In turn, we could associate this method with an implementation, such as the DAMASK crystal plasticity software. Structuring scientific workflows in this way encourages reproducibility and allows researchers to easily compare the results of different models (i.e. methods). matflow is a work in progress and is currently being developed. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| URL | https://github.com/LightForm-group/matflow |
| Title | xrdfit: A Python package for fitting synchrotron X-ray diffraction spectra |
| Description | xrdfit is a Python package we have developed for faster fitting of diffraction peaks in SXRD (and XRD) spectra, which can be used for datasets containing many thousands of patterns. It is intended as an easy to use tool which enables automated, repeatable identification of peak positions and profiles in spectra with multiple individual or overlapping lattice plane peaks. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The package has been used by our group in published works. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3621298 |
| Company Name | CURVEX TECHNOLOGY LTD |
| Description | CURVEX Technology spin-out is established in late 2019 based on a novel sideway extrusion technique for forming curved light alloys, which play an important lightweighting role in various industries such as aerospace and automotive. The sideway extrusion technology is proposed and developed by Prof Jianguo Lin at Imperial College. Without the significant support from EPSRC funded Lightform grant, it is extremely hard to realise this technology to a spin-out company. CURVEX mainly produces curved extruded light metal parts with single or multiple light metals. These parts will be sold to Tier 1 or 2 companies. |
| Year Established | 2019 |
| Impact | The lightweighting market in the transportation industry witnessed considerable growth in the recent years, due to the increasingly strict requirement of CO2 emissions of vehicles. Extrusion components are extensively employed in automotive, aerospace, high-speed train and construction industries. The lightweight extrusion component is an attractive solution to reducing the vehicle weight as well as improving fuel efficiency. At the moment, there are 1 part-time and 4 full time equivalent scientific posts within the company. |
| Website | https://curvextech.com |
| Description | 2021 Annual Report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Annual report detailing in-depth updates on key challenge themes, research highlights, staffing updates, and grant news. Primarily used to report progress to key stakeholders, including the advisory board. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://lightform.org.uk/uploads/files/LightForm_AR_2021_.pdf |
| Description | A presentation delivered on various research projects undertaken in LightForm with special emphasis on 'Dynamic precipitation in Al alloys during warm forming' at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Indian Institute of Metals Kanpur Chapter organised a talk which was attended by the faculties and the post-graduate and under-graduate students of IIT Kanpur. The various activities related to different themes of LightForm was discussed followed by a 30 minute presentation on 'dynamic precipitation in Al alloys during warm forming'. The talk was followed by a Q & A session where fruitful discussions about various experimental (ETMT), characterisation (SAXS) and modelling techniques (KWN model) were made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BlueDot Science Festival in collaboration with LightForm and the Sir Henry Royce Institute. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | LightForm in conjunction with The Sir Henry Royce Institute delivered an outreach activity at the BlueDot science festival in July 2018, with delivery support from the LightForm PDRA team. In attendance were the general public predominantly, including family groups, along with a range of different ages, with varying degrees of scientific knowledge. Showcased were 6 different activities related to various areas of material research, featuring an activity to fire a neutron (cue ball) into an ordered metallic atomic structure (a set of snooker balls), showing a disordered state developing from the collision. The HRI aims to better characterise the effects of neutron irradiation damage in the metal alloys used in nuclear reactors, which have significant effects on the properties of the materials during the lifetime of the reactor (such as the irradiation growth phenomena). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Bluedot Festival outreach activity for Henry Royce Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim was to advertise the new Henry Royce Institute (HRI), with a stand including 6 different activities to showcase the various areas of material research our 9 research partners collaboratively investigate. I was demonstrating on the nuclear irradiation damage stand. The activity was to fire a neutron (cue ball) into an ordered metallic atomic structure (a set of snooker balls), showing a disordered state devloping from the collision. The HRI aims to better characterise the effects of neutron irradiation damage in the metal alloys used in nuclear reactors, which have significant effects on the properties of the materials during the lifetime of the reactor (such as the irradiation growth phenomena). There was good feedback received from the general public, predominantly including family groups, along with a range of different ages, with varying degrees of scientific knowledge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/bluedot-2018-harder-better-faster-stronger/ |
| Description | British Science Week 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | We designed a stand for a local annual science festival which is organised by the University of Manchester Museum to celebrate British Science Week. The event took place over a Tuesday and Wednesday in March and was held at the Manchester Museum. The event was attended by children aged 11-18 years old and their parents and teachers. Our hands-on stand focussed on basic metallurgy (selection of materials) and demonstrations of Nitinol wire, and aerospace applications. This sparked discussions with attendees with increased understanding of metallurgy and materials science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | DATA MANAGEMENT FOR MATERIALS RESEARCHERS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event was aimed at materials science researchers (from any discipline) who collect, store, analyse and share experimental data associated with their samples: e.g., optical images, SEM images, property measurements, etc. The workshop shared examples of best practice and current initiatives in the area, and began to formulate a list of actions to enable better data management practices. 140 individuals from varying backgrounds attended online, with plenty of engagement, interaction and discussion throughout the workshop. A document with resources, shared ideas for best practice, and ideas on how the field should progress was produced and is currently being circulated for attendee input. This will be shared with policy makers such as the EPSRC once completed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Determination of a Universal Transportation Light Weight Index |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary Lecture at 2nd Int. Conference on Lightweight Materials and Manufacture, Changsha, China, 9-12 Oct. 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dissemination at the Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from Dr Nan Li's Team presented posters at the Imperial Festival which was part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019. Dissemination of the research work linked to LightForm was made to hundreds of industrial partners, students, and wider audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | EPSRC Programme Managers Community of Practise |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EPSRC Programme Managers Community where best practise in large programme management is discussed, questions relating to reporting methods, management of funds etc. Meetings are held every 8-12 weeks. The groups consists of12-15 programme managers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Early Career Researcher Fellowship Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop wass aimed at PDRAs and final year PhD students, who were interested in applying for a fellowship and wanted to know more about the process and the different fellowship schemes available. This event was been designed to help them understand what is required for an application and how to navigate the fellowship application process. The sessions covered: introduction to fellowships, mechanics of applications, finding an industrial partner (and do you need to?), writing taster session - tips + an exercise, including impact in a proposal, lunch with networking time. The impact was that attendees felt more confident in their choice to pursue a fellowship application, and many attendees used the information to apply for academic positions at other institutions as well as fellowships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IoM3 Non Ferrous Light Metals Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joe Robson sits on the group which discusses the future direction of Non Ferrous Light Metals work in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | Latest Advances in Modelling and Characterisation of Alloys Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | LightForm hosted a one-day symposium on the Latest Advances in Modelling and Characterisation of Alloys at the University of Manchester's Core Technology Facility. The symposium provided LightForm's stakeholders and the wider community with an opportunity to hear about the latest developments in computational modelling and advanced characterisation, and stimulated discussion about future directions and challenges. Around 70 delegates and speakers came to Manchester from our partner institutions as well as visitors from the international light alloy community. Topics included the development of sustainable alloys, efficient crystal plasticity modelling, digital twinning of materials and open science and reproducibility. The speakers at the Symposium were: ?Professor Claire Davis (University of Warwick). Virtual and physical rapid alloy processing for steel alloy development. ?Dr Adam Plowman (University of Manchester). An open framework for computational materials science: formability predictions and microstructural evolution with MatFlow. ?Professor Chad Sinclair (The University of British Columbia). Prediction of precipitate-free zones in AA6XXX extrusions. ?Dr Conghui Liu (University of Manchester). Multi-dimensional study of fatigue crack initiation in a near-alpha titanium alloy. ?Professor Bjørn Holmedal (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Open, efficient and robust implementations of crystal and continuum plasticity models in FEM. ?Dr Mike Atkinson (University of Manchester). Linking crystal plasticity texture predictions to process models using Gaussian process regression. ?Dr Alec Davis (University of Manchester). Recent developments in wire-based titanium additive manufacturing for aerospace applications. ?Dr Thomas Flint (University of Manchester). Recent developments in mathematical modelling frameworks for advanced manufacturing processes. There was a poster presentation competition over lunch. The presentation allowed LightForm's associated PhD students to showcase their work to academic and industrial colleagues and to discuss their research with experts in their field. The posters were judged by volunteers from LightForm's Independent Advisory Board, who said the quality of all the work as outstanding. The symposium demonstrated an impressive volume of work for with project presentations of high technical quality, demonstrating detailed scientific understanding. Attendees appreciated and enjoyed the event. The impact of this is that LightForm's work was disseminated, industry partners felt engaged, the Advisory Board we given a thorough overview of the grant's work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | LightForm International Launch Event - October 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The LightForm International launch event was held in Manchester on October 19 2017. Totalling 62 attendees (32 industry, 30 university or research organisation), representing 22 companies and 10 universities/research organisations. The morning session comprised an introduction to LightForm from the research team and three industrial scene-setting talks from Constellium, Impression Technologies, and Rolls Royce spanning both the supply chain and alloy type aluminium, titanium and magnesium. The need for a paradigm shift to integrate materials technology into the manufacturing with light alloys was a recurring theme across industries and sectors and is central to the vision of LightForm. The afternoon session comprised a workshop where ideas and input from industry and research organisation delegates were sought on industry specific research topics, on effective routes to collaboration, and on areas for cross-industry collaboration. 64 inputs were received, comprising potential PhD projects, general comments on the research programme, and suggestions for collaborative workshops. Of the 11 workshop topics identified, 6 had a modelling focus and this led to us initiating a workshop on simulation of metal forming, to be held in 2019 in conjunction with the IoM3 (Formed in the UK). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | LightForm LinkedIn Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | LightForm presence on LinkedIn platform which promotes research highlights, posts job advertisements, highlights upcoming events. In 16 months the site has gained 174 new followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightform-uk/ |
| Description | LightForm Research Showcase 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The LightForm Research Showcase 2018 took place on Tuesday 25 September 2018 at Cambridge University. The first of our planned LightForm Research Showcases, presented to academics, students and the LightForm Steering Committee, presenting the culmination of LightForm research to date. Steering Committee Chair, Dr Michael Clinch, observed that the Showcase demonstrated an impressive volume of work for the first year of the programme, with project presentations of high technical quality, demonstrating detailed scientific understanding. We were fortunate enough to have in attendance, academics and students from Cambridge University who also benefited from the Showcase's varied range of presentations which comprised of: Michael Atkinson The University of Manchester Simulating strain path reversal using full-field crystal plasticity modelling Kai Zhang Imperial College London Microstructure evolution in the thermal-mechanical behaviours of alloys Dr Jinghua Zheng Imperial College London Investigation of fast ageing method for AA6082 Dr Alex Cassell The University of Manchester Recent developments in the characterisation of aluminium alloy microstructures by electron microscopy - microchemistry in 7xxx aluminium alloys the non-uniform distribution of elements Nick Byres The University of Manchester Investigating grain size distribution abnormalities in Ti-6Al-4V Dr Christopher Daniel The University of Manchester High temperature deformation micromechanics in dual-phase titanium alloys Dr Hugh Shercliff & Dr Patryk Jedrasiak Cambridge University Modelling of hot deformation testing Dr Nicolas Gruel (assisted by Nick Byers) The University of Manchester LightForm data management and data sharing application |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | LightForm Research Showcase 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The LightForm Research Showcase 2021 took place on Thursday 18 November and Friday 19 November 2021 online via zoom. This LightForm Research Showcase was presented to academics, students, industry and the LightForm Steering Committee, presenting the culmination of LightForm research to date. The Showcase demonstrated an impressive volume of work for with project presentations of high technical quality, demonstrating detailed scientific understanding. In-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction studies of hot titanium deformation - Christopher Daniel The texture evolution during hot rolling of Ti-6Al-4V - Xiaohan Zeng Heat Stamping of Ti-6Al-4V sheet (video) - Famin Tian The effect of texture on the ductility of alpha-beta Ti alloys - Wayne Heatman Modelling dynamic precipitation in aluminium alloys - Madeleine Bignon Dynamic precipitation in pre-aged AA7075 during warm stretching - Ziyu Ma Development of biaxial testing for formability evaluation - Victoria Yardley Investigating and modelling the effect of prior deformation on creep age forming - Kevin Tanswell A novel integrated framework for reproducible formability predictions using virtual materials testing - Thomas Jailin Crystal plasticity modelling of formability in recycled 6xxx alloys - Inigo Howe Multilevel statistical modelling of texture evolution in BCC alloys - Michael Atkinson CALPHAD-informed phase field modelling of quench sensitivity in 7xxx alloys - Yichao Yao |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://lightform.org.uk/news-views-events/LightForm-Research-Showcase-2021 |
| Description | LightForm Seminar - Adventures in lowering the cost of titanium alloy components in the Steel City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Martin Jackson from the University of Sheffield presented the LightForm seminar "Adventures in lowering the cost of titanium alloy components in the Steel City", at The University of Manchester, School of Materials in February 2019. The seminar focused on the findings of the The Sheffield Titanium Alloy Research (STAR) groups work with aerospace and automotive supply chain, in relation to reducing the cost of titanium processing and improve the performance of critical titanium parts. The first part of the seminar described emerging powder to product hybrid near net shape processes, such as FAST-forge and powder to wire processes such as Conform. The second part of the seminar described work with key industrial partners enabling the better understanding of the effects of upstream forging and machining on component fatigue performance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | LightForm Seminar - Multi-scale simulation towards the understanding of the deformation mechanisms and microstructure evolution in titanium based alloys |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Dongsheng Xu from the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a LightForm seminar at The University of Manchester, School of Materials on Tuesday 17 April 2018. The seminar which included undergraduates and postgraduates, academics and technicians, focused on research of multi-scale simulations carried out on titanium alloys and titanium intermetallic compounds in order to understand the microstructure evolution, deformation and fracture behaviour under different conditions, demonstrating the effects of temperature, external stress on the nucleation and growth and how these findings inform the practical design of some new alloys and thermal mechanical processing routes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MATERIAL SELECTION IN DESIGN for schools and colleges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This resource encourages students to explore and consider the selection of materials in the design process: Dr Hugh Shercliff has developed and trialled secondary school teaching resources, with a number of 4th year MEng undergraduats. The objective is to set science and maths content at GCSE and A level within an engineering context. A number of resources relate to materials in design, exploring the trade-offs between mechanical properties, cost and density in light weight design, using the core concept of "material property charts". Worksheets have been trialled with pupils in a local Cambridge school, guest lectures delivered in various schools to groups of around 30 6th form students. A practical outreach activity has been designed using bending of beams to explore stiffness and weight on a low-cost portable test rig, and trialled successfully by a group of 20 visiting 6th form students. Work continues to build a number of bending test rigs for LightForm students to take on outreach visits, and to publish a set of resources for GCSE and A level. Future MEng projects will investigate the potential in primary teaching and Key Stage 3 of linking science to DT, and embedding engineering context in science and computing teaching. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Manufacturing the Future Seminar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Seminar series (10 seminars in total) from large EPSRC Manufacturing the Future theme grant holders. This was done in collaboration with the Henry Royce Institute. Seminars were held in-person and also streamed online. Across all events we has approximately 350 attendees (both in-person and online) with many people from industry attending, and academics as far as China attending. The improved collaboration links between grants, and promoted sharing best practice in running large grants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Medlock Primary School Outreach Activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Three outreach activities (chocolate impact tester, plastic heat gun/badge maker, and plasticine shaping) were used to demonstrate materials science and engineering to two groups of about 30 primary school children (year 2 and 3). The activities sparked questions and enthusiastic discussion about materials and science. Excellent feedback received from the school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://lightform.org.uk/outreach |
| Description | New materials processing technologies for forming lightweight structural components |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary Lecture at the World University Forum on Materials Science & Engineering Leadership, Wuhan, China, 10-12 Oct. 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Newsletters 2022 (4 separate newsletters) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Quarterly newsletters containing research highlights, upcoming events associated with the grant, staffing updates, were sent to a list of subscribers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Polish School Outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In January 2023, Dr Patryk Jedrasiak, invited by teachers from local primary schools in Myslibórz, Poland, delivered a series of seven short talks on science and technology to pupils from 7th and 8th grades. Each talk discussed academic careers, touching on the subject of women in science, and presenting the profile of one the most outstanding scientist in history, Marie Curie-Sklodowska. The pupils were then encouraged to speculate about the technologies and areas of scientific endeavour that they believe are particularly promising and inspiring. Discussed examples included gene therapies, artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion and exploration of Mars. Finally, Dr Jedrasiak talked his own past education and applications of his current research on lightweight alloys, giving the pupils an opportunity to ask questions and offering advice. The schools host pupils from both urban and rural areas, with latter accounting for over 40% of the population of the region, traditionally being among the poorest areas of Poland. Regional GDP per capita of €10.900 ranks it among lowest in the EU (with the EU average of €29.900). The region is also particularly susceptible to human capital flight ("brain-drain"). Although the proportion of population with high education in the region is close to the EU average (29.8% compared to 33.4%), R&D personnel accounts for only 0.9% of the total employment in the region, and R&D expenditure accounts for only 0.61% of the regional GDP (compared to EU averages of correspondingly 2.3% and 2.23%). Despite low overall unemployment rate in the region (3.5%), only 78.3% of recent graduates are employed (source: Eurostat, European Commission). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Running LightForm Stand at LightMAT Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Running LightForm stand at the LightMAT conference 2019, to communicate to an academic and industry audience about the current research being undertaken by the LightForm group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://lightform.org.uk/news-views-events/lightmat-featuring-lightform |
| Description | School visit (Medlock primary school) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Provided age-appropriate demonstrations of materials science and specifically concepts relating to forming materials. The activities were "hands on", allowing the children to easily engage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | ScienceX Science Festival Stand - How to design a sustainable bike |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We designed a stand for a local annual science festival which is organised by the faculty of science and engineering at the University of Manchester. The event took place over a Saturday and Sunday in November and was held at the Manchester Central Library. The event was attended by children aged 3-12 years old and their parents. Our hands-on stand focussed on basic metallurgy (selection of materials) and manufacturing principles(stamping, extruding, welding), and testing using a Charpy impacter. This sparked discussions with children and their parents with increased understanding of metallurgy and materials science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Vision development talks (annually) to the Global Innovation Design Programme at Royal College of Art |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Contributed to students' engineering vision development from the lightweight manufacturing perspective. 30-50 MA/MSc students participated the talk each time, followed by Q&As and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020 |