Academics: Moataz Attallah, Hector Basoalto, Paul Bowen, Jeff Brooks, Hanshan Dong, Ian Jones, Mike Loretto, Mark Ward, Nils Warnken, Leung Soo

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• Academics Moataz Attallah, Hector Basoalto, Paul
  Bowen, Jeff Brooks, Hanshan Dong, Ian Jones, Mike
  Loretto, Mark Ward, Nils Warnken, Leung Soo
• Key Research Interests in Titanium
• Friction joining (linear, rotary and stir)
• Laser additive manufacture (powder bed, wire
  deposition and blown powder).
• Powder netshape hot isostatic pressing processing
• Alloy development experimental and modelling.
• Solid-state joining (HIP-DB, interlayer
  technology).
• Electron microscopy of Ti-alloys stability and
  PTs.
• Micromechanics.
• Superplastic and bulk forming
• Machining of Ti and g-Ti alloys.
• Surface engineering of Ti-alloys.
• TiNi smart structures.

Support FP7, DSTL, EPSRC, Timet, Rolls-Royce
plc, BAe Systems, Messier-Bugatti-Dowty,
Johnson-Matthey
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Imperial College London
Academics Ben Britton, Fionn Dunne, David Dye,
Trevor Lindley Key Research Areas ?
Micromechanics of slip and failure mechanisms ?
Microcantilever, pillar and nano-indent test ?
Crystal and discrete dislocation modelling ?
X-ray diffraction, ESEM, High-res EBSD ? Phase
transformations ? Cold dwell and fatigue ?
Ultrasonics for 3D texture measurement ? High
rate deformation and shear band
formation Support EPSRC, Rolls-Royce, TIMET,
IMR China
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The University of Manchester

• Academics Michael Preuss, Joao Quinta da
  Fonseca, Philip Prangnell
• Key Research Interests in Titanium
• Sheet forming and formability
• Microstructure, texture and residual stress
  evolution during processing including additive
  manufacturing
• Micromechanics and crystal plasticity modelling
• Mechanisms that determine performance of Ti
  alloys
• In-situ characterisation during mechanical
  loading and corrosive environments
• Strain heterogeneity characterisation
• 3D characterisation
• Hyper joining (metal to composites)
• Linear and inertia friction welding
• Support TIMET, Otto Fuchs, Rolls-Royce, Bao
  Steel, Airbus, EADS, GKN

DIC strain maps quantifying shear strain in slip
traces
X-ray tomography showing short crack propagation
in lamellar microstructure
Damage evolution in composite of a hyper joint
recorded by x-ray tomography
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The University of Sheffield

• Academics Martin Jackson, Iain Todd, Brad Wynne
• Key Research Interests in Titanium
• Solid state processing of low cost powder to
  sheet and wire (rolling and extrusion)
• One step forging of pre-formed powder billets
• FEM of solid state processes (extrusion
  forging)
• Near net shape rapid manufacturing (ALM)
• High performance machining
• Friction-stir welding
• Texture prediction during forging
• Support Timet, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, DSTL, RTi
  International, TWI, Metalysis, Messier-Bugatti-Dow
  ty, Sandvik

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Swansea University (Institute of Structural
Materials)

• Academics Martin Bache, Mark Whittaker, Leo
  Prakash, Robert Lancaster, Soran Birosca, Karen
  Perkins
• Key Research Interests in Titanium
• Cold dwell sensitivity
• Fatigue crack growth
• Creep-fatigue interactions
• Component lifing
• Additive layer manufacturing / repair
  technologies
• Process microstructure properties
  (macrozones)
• Gamma TiAl characterisation
• Foreign object damage
• Diffusion bonding
• Support Rolls-Royce (UTC in Materials EPSRC
  Strategic Partnership in Gas Turbines)
• Timet, TWI Validation Centre (Wales)