Materials Design, Processing and Characterisation

Materials Design, Processing and Characterisation Research Theme

Digital Design and Manufacture

Digital Manufacturing refers to a convergence of complementary computing technologies that, in combination, have the potential to create an industrial revolution whose impact is comparable with introduction of steam power or the adoption of mass production. The fundamental technologies underpinning digital manufacturing are sensing, automation, control, additive manufacturing, simulation and modelling whose combined use is facilitated by AI, data-mining, image recognition, network communications and geometric modelling.

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Dr Amer Syed

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Full Job Title: 

Lecturer and Discipline Programme Manager

Engineering Discipline: 

  • Mechanical Engineering

Research Institute: 

  • Materials and Processes

Email: 

MechDPM.Eng@ed.ac.uk, asyed2@ed.ac.uk

Telephone: 

+44(0)131 650 8562

Amer is a mechanical engineer with interests primarily in the area of fracture mechanics. He is particularly interested in deformation and damage mechanics of complex materials.

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Unconventional route to advanced materials production

George Serghiou in the School of Engineering together with colleagues from the School of Geosciences and three other leading research institutions in Germany and France have identified a surprising new experimental route to bulk solid solution formation.

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Figure A: Researchers have found a surprising route to the creation of new solid solutions, using elements within the so-called 'Ge-Sn system'. Figure B: Known cubic diamond-structured Si (c-Si) and new bulk cubic diamond-structured GeSn (c-GeSn).

Powderblade (EU Project)

Powderblade was a collaboration of The University of Edinburgh, Eirecomposites Teo, Suzlon Energy and WestBIC. It was a research and development project that used novel engineering methods to modernise the way large wind turbine blades are manufactured and installed.

Research Themes: 

  • Materials Design, Processing and Characterisation

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