Location: | Birmingham |
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Salary: | £34,980 to £44,263 full time starting salary range, with potential progression once in post to £46,974, Grade 7 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 25th March 2024 |
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Closes: | 22nd April 2024 |
Job Ref: | 103609 |
Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to June 2027
Role Summary
Join our award-winning research team at the High Temperature Research Centre (HTRC) that has recently been recognised through the Queen’s Anniversary Prize. The centre is a partnership between the University and Rolls-Royce plc. Equipped with an advanced materials and formulation characterisation laboratory alongside a dedicated manufacturing process line, the centre replicates Rolls-Royce’s production investment casting capability for nickel-superalloy single-crystal turbine components. Approximately 100 academics, researchers, designers, engineers, and technicians collaborate in a dedicated facility on projects spanning fundamental science, capability acquisition, engine demonstrator and manufacturing technology. The project brings together a team of academics and industrial researchers covering turbine component design, advanced materials and process modelling to realise step-change advances in technologies to enable more cost effective, fuel efficient and sustainable turbines for aircraft propulsion systems.
The primary focus of the post is the formulation of ceramic systems for additive manufacturing of cores and shells capable of withstanding the demands of the single crystal casting process. There are significant challenges associated with achieving fine features and tight dimensional tolerances necessary for producing complex future component designs. You will develop and utilize novel laboratory procedures to explore the effect of the ceramic system on the mechanical properties of the sintered ceramic, reducing the inherent anisotropy and propensity for dimensional variation, thereby enabling complex and defect free geometries. You will contribute to the scientific community by delivering conference and journal publications using non-IP sensitive model systems.
Person Specification
You will join an active research group working on various aspects of materials modelling and a large collaborative project encompassing topics spanning experimental, theoretical/ modelling and machine-learning domains.
Informal enquires can be made to Associate Professor Alex Cendrowicz, email: a.cendrowicz@bham.ac.uk
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