"Research Associate in Additive Manufacturing"

An exciting opportunity for a research associate exists within the Multiscale Materials Informatics and Innovation (M2i2) research group, led by Prof Hector Basoalto, at the University of Sheffield. You will be part of a programme of research that is fully funded by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) in a large collaborative programme with several Industry partners.

For the aerospace industry and the stringent safety regulations imposed, certification can become a significant barrier to the introduction of new technologies with significant costs and time necessary. Digital transformations to process control and design, including melt pool physics models, can enable meaningful acceleration of the qualification processes.

Your research will be integral to an overarching framework for accelerated digital qualification of LPBF using multi-phase melt-pool physics and high-fidelity simulations. It will focus on the creation of a virtual qualification environment and the generation of microstructure-based crystal plasticity models. Surrogate models to accelerate virtual material testing and verification will be developed to allow the generation of property distributions from process-induced microstructure variations.

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