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PhD on Fatigue and Fracture Characterisation of 3D-woven Textile Composites sponsored by Rolls-Royce
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🎓 Engineering
🎓 Manufacturing Engineering
🎓 Materials Science
UK
CDT
Aerospace
Composites
Fatigue
Fracture
Rolls-Royce
PhD on Fatigue and Fracture Characterisation of 3D-woven Textile Composites sponsored by Rolls-Royce. Research focuses on understanding failure behaviour and developing techniques to improve sustainable lightweight structures.
Project Description
PhD on Fatigue and Fracture Characterisation of 3D-woven Textile Composites sponsored by Rolls-Royce
A key technology for delivering Net Zero Transport is the ability to create lightweight structures to enable reduced carbon emission. 3D-woven textile composites with complex geometry offer notable benefits over traditional 2D laminated composites, including improved impact energy absorption, greater resistance to delamination, manufacturing efficiency improvements and reduced waste by utilising near net-shape preforms. However, fundamental research is required to investigate significant differences in modes of failure and devising suitable means of observing failure to provide improved understanding of material behaviour to enable design of more efficient and safer structures.
The project research will be carried out at the University of Bristol with funded secondments to Imperial College London. The PhD project will:
Provide an understanding of how 3D woven materials fail
Develop high fidelity tools and techniques to identify material failure
Support in-service failure investigations by devising a rapid means of observing failure speed
Demonstrate the techniques on manufactured materials and components.
Excite your interest in characterising material behaviour and developing tools to improve manufacture and design of component that support sustainable aviation.
Entry Requirements
Eligibility: Home/international students subject to security clearance
How to Apply
To apply please submit a personal statement, outlining your experience and why you are interested in the PhD project, your CV and transcript of results to:
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/
Please include the project title in the project description field and select PhD in Advanced Composites. Please enter Professor Janice Barton the Director of the CDT as the 2nd supervisor (janice.barton@bristol.ac.uk) and indicate that the funding is provided by the CDT in Innovation for Sustainable Composites Engineering.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/
Please include the project title in the project description field and select PhD in Advanced Composites. Please enter Professor Janice Barton the Director of the CDT as the 2nd supervisor (janice.barton@bristol.ac.uk) and indicate that the funding is provided by the CDT in Innovation for Sustainable Composites Engineering.
Eligibility
UK/Home
EU
International
Supervisor Profile
PJ
Prof Janice Barton
University of Bristol, Centre in Doctoral Training (CDT) in Innovation for Sustainable Composites Engineering
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