PhD in Radiation Effects

The project aims to assess the thermo-mechanical stability of austenitic structures to transform into martensite at sub-room temperatures in conventional and additive-manufactured 316L stainless steels irradiated to close-to-magnet particle doses./nYou will carry out in-situ cooling/deformation experiments of as-manufactured and irradiated steel specimens using High-Energy Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction (HE-SXRD) in transmission mode. This work will be supported by analytical electron microscopy in-house, together with a fractography analysis of the post-mortem specimens. Steel irradiations will be performed using the high-energy proton beam generated by the Birmingham MC40 cyclotron facility./nThe project is a 3.5-year PhD studentship in the fusion materials group of Prof. Enrique Jimenez-Melero within the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham, with a stipend of at least £20,780 per year. This project is in collaboration with Frazer-Nash Consultancy.