Clifford Butcher
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Fracture
- Formability
- Plasticity
- Micromechanics
- Computational Mechanics
- Automotive Metal Forming & Crash Simulations
- Advanced/Ultra High Strength Steels
- Aluminum alloys
- Magnesium alloys
- Warm Forming & Hot Stamping
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Material Characterization, Structural Crashworthiness; A to D profiles
Kyle Daun
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Combustion diagnostics and nanoparticle metrology
- Gas/surface scattering
- Inverse analysis and optimal design of heat transfer systems
- Molecular gas dynamics
- Thermal radiation heat transfer
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Casting, Forming, Materials and Processing; Powertrain and Emissions→Emissions Control; Structure and Safety→Structural Crashworthiness; A to D profiles
Kaan Inal
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- High performance computing – parallel computing
- Instabilities and localized deformation phenomena in materials
- Metal formability
- Micromechanics, crystal plasticity
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Structural Crashworthiness; I to M profiles
Hamidreza Jahed Motlagh
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Cyclic plasticity
- Fatigue failure analysis and fatigue life prediction
- Finite deformation
- Mechanical testing of micro- and submicron specimens, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
- Modelling, analysis and design of materials under inelastic and cyclic loadings
- Multi-axial fatigue of magnesium alloys
- Residual stresses
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Fatigue; I to M profiles
Michael Worswick
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- High strain rate material behaviour
- Numerical simulation of vehicle crashworthiness
- Sheet metal forming and tube hydroforming
- Structural crashworthiness
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Material Characterization, Structural Crashworthiness; T to Z profiles
