Imperial College London
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Applications are invited for a research studentship in the field of Advanced Tomographic Microscopy for Damage Modelling in Steels, leading to the award of a PhD degree.  The post is supported by a bursary and fees (at the UK/EU student rate) provided by EPSRC.  The studentship is for 3.5 years from October 2011 (or to start soon after) and is available for UK and EU candidates meeting the Research Council criterion of having been resident in the UK for the previous three years. The student will benefit from collaboration with Tata Steel, a leading global metal processing company. Tata Steel will also provide a bursary top-up; the total bursary will be approximately £19,000 per year tax-free. The student will also benefit from use of the Diamond Light Source, and interactions with scientists at both the Diamond facility and University of Manchester.

Please read attached advert for further details.  

There are 3 fully-funded PhD studentships available for a 1st October 2009 start, for EPSRC-eligible students in Mechanics of Materials at Imperial College London. EPSRC eligibility usually entails UK citizenship.

Professorship in the Mechanics of Materials Division
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Imperial College London

Imperial College is one of Europe's leading teaching and research institutions and the Department of Mechanical Engineering had the highest possible rating in the last Research Assessment Exercise.

Attached to this post are the notes John posted in his blog, with all pages rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees, for those who would like to read them on their computers.

An EPSRC-funded PhD Studentship is available in the Mechanics of Materials Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London in the general area of theoretical/computational solid mechanics. Funding comes in the form of an EPSRC award (DTA scheme), and as such there is much flexibility in the project scope. A few tentative possibilities are: discrete dislocation modeling of high-temperature creep in dispersion-strengthened superalloys, crack nucleation criteria for functionally graded materials, fracture and post-operative remodeling of trabecular bone (jointly with the biomechanics group).