PhD Materials Engineering

COURSE OVERVIEW

With our main research strengths of aerospace materials, environmental materials and steel technology, Swansea University provides an excellent base for your research as a PhD or MPhil student in Materials Engineering.

To find out more about the world-leading research that we do visit the Materials Research Centre website.

Recent PhD theses supervised in the area of Materials Engineering at Swansea University include

• Bioinspired investigation via x-ray computed micromography
• Characterisation of Compressor Abradable Systems
• Validation of a high integrity/repair process for aerospace materials
• Constitutive behaviour in turbine disc alloys
• Investigating the dwell crack growth and creep resistance behaviour of next generation nickel disc alloys
• Addressing the scale up challenges of solid state mesoscopic solar cells
• Low cost dye sensitized solar cells on metal substrates
• Role of environment and its effects on high temperature corrosion-fatigue life in nickel based superalloys