Materials Engineering, PhD

Swansea University

With our main research strengths of aerospace materials, environmental materials and steel technology, Swansea University provides an excellent base for your research as a PhD or MPhil student in Materials Engineering. Recent PhD theses supervised in the area of Materials Engineering at Swansea University include Bioinspired investigation via x-ray computed micromography, Characterisation of Compressor Abradable Systems, Validation of a high integrity/repair process for aerospace materials, Constitutive behaviour in turbine disc alloys, Constitutive behaviour in turbine disc alloys, Addressing the scale up challenges of solid state mesoscopic solar cells, Low cost dye sensitized solar cells on metal substrates and Role of environment and its effects on high temperature corrosion-fatigue life in nickel based superalloys.

Materials Engineering