Job title:
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Phone: 0114 225 3068
Email: K.Shapiro@shu.ac.uk
B.Eng.(hons) Mechanical Engineering, M.Phil, Ph.D
Research Interests
- Corrosion fatigue crack growth/behaviour in structural steel and residual stress effects.
- Fatigue performance of aerospace materials as a function of laser shock peening (LSP) residual stresses.
- Surface morphology & residual stress effects on stress corrosion cracking (SCC) behaviour.
Research Collaborations
- Manchester University - Prediction of environment-assisted cracking (EAC) lifetime of a structural steel.
- Manchester/Oxford/Swansea universities - Structural integrity of components with deep compressive residual stresses.