Job offer Computational Modelling / Materials: Fully Funded PHd Studentship in More physically based modelling of single crystal materials operating under thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF)

Job offer

JOB

Location: United Kingdom

Organisation: Swansea University

Posted on: 17 March 2025

Computational Modelling / Materials: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in More Physically Based Modelling of Single Crystal Materials Operating Under Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue (TMF)

Application Deadline: 21 Apr 2025 - 12:59 (Europe/London)

Type of Contract: Temporary

Job Status: Full-time

Hours Per Week: 35

Offer Starting Date: 1 Oct 2025

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Job Information

• Organisation/Company: Swansea University


• Department: Central


• Research Field: Engineering » Materials engineering


• Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)


• Positions: PhD Positions


• Country: United Kingdom

Offer Description

The student will undertake a placement within Rolls-Royce for a minimum period of 3 months. Students may be required to attend a professional course in Rolls-Royce as part of their study.

Project description: With the need for enhanced cooling to improve the robustness of Gas Turbine hot components, the complexity of the components increases resulting in higher stresses and corresponding increased risk of fatigue. Rolls-Royce believes that the proposed TMF modelling project offers an opportunity to mitigate this risk through higher fidelity behavioural models and better understanding of the limit of applicability of existing models. Any modelling will have direct applicability to all Rolls-Royce Turbomachinery products.

Outline and Focus: There is a need to improve fatigue modelling capability of single crystal materials to support the complex nature of future designs. To support this, we are already testing material at Swansea as part of the ATI funded 'HOTLINE' project. RR will be doing some analysis of the test data but this will be limited to an engineering level assessment. To better leverage the testing and to develop more physically based models (increased accuracy / understanding of the limit of applicability of the engineering models) there is a need to do more detailed modelling work. Swansea University already has a world-class testing and analysis facility, being the go-to for advanced high temperature testing. Swansea University also has a strong modelling community and this proposal allows a unique link to be developed between the testing, fractographic assessment and modelling communities at Swansea.

Methodology: An existing computational multiscale modelling framework developed at Swansea University, which incorporates state-of-the-art techniques especially devised to simulate various aspects of the behaviour of single crystals, will be the starting point for the development of this project. More specifically, physically-based crystal-scale models aimed at capturing TMF at crystal level will be developed and incorporated into the computational multiscale framework. Extensive numerical simulations within this framework, with benchmarking against experimental data, will then allow the assessment of existing engineering-scale models and the development of new models of TMF with enhanced accuracy and engineering applicability to be used by RR.

Requirements

• Research Field: Engineering


• Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent


• Skills/Qualifications: IELTS 6.5 Overall (5.5+ each comp.) or Swansea University recognised equivalent.

Additional Information

Benefits: This scholarship covers the full cost of tuition fees and an annual stipend at UKRI rate (currently £20,780 for 2025/26). Additional research expenses of up to £2,000 per year will also be available.

Eligibility criteria: Scholarship open to UK and international fee eligible applicants. Applicants for PhD must hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University) in Engineering or similar relevant science discipline.

Selection process: Please see our website for more information.

Work Location(s)

• Number of offers available: 1


• Company/Institute: Swansea University


• Country: United Kingdom


• City: Swansea


• Postal Code: SA2 8PP

Contact

• State/Province: West Glamorgan


• City: Swansea


• Street: Singleton Park


• Postal Code: SA28PP


• E-Mail: e.desouzaneto@swansea.ac.uk


• Phone:

STATUS: EXPIRED

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Bachelor Degree or equivalent, IELTS 6.5 Overall (5.5+ each comp.) or Swansea University recognised equivalent., Scholarship open to UK and international fee eligible applicants

Applicants for PhD must hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University) in Engineering or similar relevant science discipline. See - Country-specific Information for EU and International Candidates.
Selection process

This scholarship covers the full cost of tuition fees and an annual stipend at UKRI rate (currently £20,780 for 2025/26).

Additional research expenses of up to £2,000 per year will also be available.
Eligibility criteria