Enhanced Manufacturability of High-Integrity Components through Advanced Rotary Friction Welding

Manufacturing Technology Engineering Doctoral Centre (MTEDC)

University of Birmingham

MTC proposes a unique and exciting EngD opportunity to develop a world leading insight of the novel RFW capability and exploitation of this technology for the benefit of MTC, its Industrial Members and Research Partners.

The ‘Enhanced Manufacturability of High Integrity Components through Advanced Rotary Friction Welding’ EngD will be primarily associated with the development and understanding of the novel RFW technologies
available at MTC, in the following areas:

• Hybrid RFW
• Weld Pressure Modulation
• Torque Modulation
• Dynamic Profile Control, and
• Weld Orientation control.

The work will combine the use of advanced metallurgical characterisation
techniques (e.g. electron microscopy, mechanical testing, and
neutron/Synchrotron X-ray diffraction) for structural integrity assessment,
with mathematical modelling to understand the influence of the process parameters
on the resulting welds.

The EngD student will work as part of a wider project team with a number of technology themes at MTC. The High Integrity Fabrication (HIF) theme at MTC will sponsor the project which will be co-supervised by the University of Birmingham.