Director of Study: Nicholas Pickett
Supervisors: Sajhda Parveen and Stephen O'Grady
Additional Details: Open to all students; Self-funded position

It is widely accepted that additive manufacturing and 3D printing can offer more practical advantages over traditional manufacturing processes, such as the reduction of cost, speed and flexibility for a product's fabrication.  However, additively manufactured and 3D printed parts often suffer from structural integrity issues as a consequence of their fabrication process.  Using numerical, computational and experimental methods this project seeks to develop new and innovative models using finite element methods to analyse and predict the structural performance of parts, which are specifically designed for an additive manufacturing process and which incorporate regular and irregular lattice structures; features common to additive manufacturing, in order to reduce a product's weight.

For further information, please contact Nicholas Pickett