Heterogeneous Mechanics in Hexagonal Alloys across Length and Time Scales

Completed

Nuclear Fission and Fusion(Nuclear Fission, Other nuclear fission)
Energy Efficiency(Transport)
Not Energy Related

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor FPE Dunne
Materials
Imperial College London

Standard

EPSRC

27 May 2013

26 November 2018

66 months

£4,979,741

Mechanical engineering

London

NC : Engineering

Professor FPE Dunne, Materials, Imperial College London

Dr T B Britton, Materials, Imperial College London
Professor M A Burke, Materials, University of Manchester
Dr D Dye, Materials, Imperial College London
Dr D Eakins, Department of Physics (the Blackett Laboratory), Imperial College London
Dr PG Frankel, Materials, University of Manchester
Dr P Huthwaite, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London
Professor M J S Lowe, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London
Dr M Preuss, Materials, University of Manchester
Dr WG Proud, Department of Physics (the Blackett Laboratory), Imperial College London
Dr AJ Wilkinson, Materials, University of Oxford

Project Contact, Rolls-Royce PLC
Project Contact, EDF Energy
Project Contact, Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB
Project Contact, AWE plc
Project Contact, Serco Group plc

We intend to make the UK the world leaders in the understanding, performance and application of hexagonal material systems used by the aero, energy and defence sectors. We wish to develop step-change technology by bringing to bear the extraordinary range of experimental, characterization and modelling techniques in which the UK holds many leaders but which have yet to be brought together to take full advantage of the synergy and multiplication possible. This simply remains un-achievable without clear UK unification of research effort. Hexagonal structural materials that are of industrial significance are all of close packed crystal structure (largely titanium, zirconium and magnesium alloys) and are strategic and profoundly important to the UK economy and find wide application. The implications of research success are profound in developing significant improvement in materials, material structure and processing conditions in optimizing manufacture, in optimizing component design with superior property-behaviour relationships, in improving operational efficiencies and in reducing production and running costs, thereby contributing to fuel efficiencies and very importantly, the UK's competitive advantage. Our ambition is to bring together the UK's experts in academia, supply chain and end-users, coupled with techniques to be brought to bear in four key themes in hexagonal metals which are fundamental mechanisms, micromechanics, performance in aero applications and performance in nuclear applications

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