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PhD Studentship: Advanced Composites PhDs Supported by Rolls-Royce

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing (CoSEM CDT) has a vacancy for a PhD Studentship: Advanced Composites PhDs Supported by Rolls-Royce

  • Closing soon
  • Closing date: 31 Jul 2021
  • United Kingdom | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering and Manufacturing (CoSEM CDT)
  • Date posted: 01 Jul 2021
  • Job type: Academic: PhD/MSc
  • Disciplines: Materials science  | Engineering & instrumentation
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Our CDT develops highly talented science and engineering graduates by giving them the technical toolsets and the multidisciplinary research and professional skills required to become the next generation of technology leaders in the science, engineering and manufacture of advanced composite materials. 

Why study with us

Imagine shape-changing aircraft, cars or wind turbines that have thermal management, sensing, actuating and self-repair functionality embedded within their materials and structures. By joining the CoSEM CDT you will undertake cohort-driven training and cutting-edge research, which could make these technological visions a reality.

On completion of the programme you will leave with far more than just a PhD; you will have the skills, knowledge and acumen to become a future technical leader in advanced composites, be it in academia or industry.

Training and development

Our four-year PhD comprises a one-year innovative taught component and three-year research project. The taught component fast-tracks graduates with science backgrounds to acquire core engineering skills, while engineering graduates broaden their scientific knowledge before specializing in their chosen subject.

You will be working in a collaborative and stimulating environment where knowledge-sharing and joint problem solving is the norm. The interdisciplinary nature of the CDT will make you think about problems from a whole new perspective and explore really innovative ideas.

What we are looking for

We’re looking for exceptional students, with at least a high 2.1 honours degree (or equivalent), from across all engineering and science subjects.

The project

Collaborative PhD projects between the University of Bristol and Rolls-Royce are available as follows:

  • Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) Oxidation modelling
    CMCs are materials that are used in high temperature applications. Therefore, as well as thermo-mechanical loads and damage, they also encounter environmental degradation. This project will develop numerical models for this environmental degradation and its interaction with mechanical damage modes for CMCs.
  • Strain energy release rates of real fracture surfaces
    Delamination is a major composites failure mode, characterised by strain energy release rate, measured using small coupon tests. In real structures however the failure is more complex, being affected by factors such as ply angles, friction and environmental and rate effects, and length scale. This project aims to better understand structural scale delamination failure mechanisms and how to account for this in numerical models.

Funding is available for one of the two project descriptions above.

To apply, click on the Apply button below. Please select PhD Advanced Composites on the Programme Choice page and enter details of the studentship when prompted in the Funding and ResearchDetails sections of the form.

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