Join the 2023 Cohort at AMS CDT

WHO WE ARE

The Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems was established in 2009 to?fill the skills gap in UK metals manufacturing, and has, to date, received ￡15 million from the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), over ￡7 million investment from the UK metals sector, and graduated over 100 doctoral students into the UK metals sector, with another 100 Post Graduate students currently in the Centre.

Until 2019 the Centre was hosted jointly by the Universities of Sheffield and?Manchester, building on their international reputation in metals and alloys research, together receiving over 40% of the EPSRC research budget in this theme.

In 2019, a €4 million award from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) supported I-Form, the?SFI Research Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, joining the partnership, with involvement of Dublin City University?and?University College Dublin, expanding out training and research to meet the needs of Industry?4.0.?

GET PAID TO STUDY WITH US

UK Scholarships

14 UK Scholarships are available for 2023 entry (open to Home fee candidates?only), these payments include:

• ￡17,668 stipend (in 2022-23)
• Tuition fees covered for four years
• Additional ￡5,000 annual top-up

ROI Scholarships

5 ROI Scholarships (funded by SFI) are available for 2023 entry (open to international candidates), these payments include:

• €18,500 stipend (in 2022-23)
• Tuition fees covered for four years
• Coverage of materials and project-related costs

WORK WITH INDUSTRY LEADERS

We champion industrial collaboration through our unique programme structure, ensuring our students are best prepared for success. Each project is?co-created with an industry supervisor in a pioneering UK company, to solve a real world Research & Development problem, and as such our researchers get unique industrial experience, becoming the leading expert in their field of research, and an invaluable asset to their industry?sponsor.

Our current industry collaborators include:

• Rolls-Royce
• Boeing Research and Technology Europe
• Airbus
• DSTL
• British Steel
• Novelis
• Seco Tools
• SANDVIK Coromant
• Element Materials Technology
• Sustain (specifically Tata Steel UK)

You can download our brochure to find out more?here.?

2023 PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES

We have a host of projects in a variety of sectors. Here's a quick run down, but you can find fuller descriptions on our website.

• Development of In-Process Machining NDE Approach to Predict Tool Wear and Titanium Component Microstructural Damage with Seco Tools
• Development of In-Process NDE Machining Force Feedback Analysis for Titanium Alloy Component Texture Analysis with Rolls-Royce
• Development of a Powder-Based Manufacturing Route for Affordable Titanium Aluminide Sheet for Nacelle Engine Application with Boeing Research and Technology Europe
• Understanding the Materials Performance of Additive Manufactured Stainless Steel Components in High Temperature Water with Rolls-Royce
• Microstructure Level Testing using High Resolution Digital Image Correlation with Element Materials Technology
• Titanium Cold Dwell Fatigue Loading - Effect of Stress Concentrations with Airbus
• Improving Tolerance of Aluminium Alloys to Impurity Elements with Novelis
• Retained Austenite Decomposition, and its Effect on Microstructure and Properties in Low-Alloy Steels with Rolls-Royce
• Development of the Conform Process to Recycle Titanium Alloy Swarf into Wire for Sustainable Additive Manufacturing Feedstock with DSTL
• Understanding the Machinability of Titanium Alloy Components from a Range of Processing Routes to Inform Tooling Solutions for Next Generation Closed-Loop Recycling Technologies with SANDVIK Coromant
• Real Time Optical Monitoring to Understand Railway Rail Wear and its Dependence on Steel Metallurgy with British Steel
• Bainitic Metallurgies for Future Rail Steel to Optimise Resistance to Wear, Cracking, and Thermal Expansion in a Production Ready Steel with British Steel
• Increasing the Use of Scrap Steel - Challenges and Opportunities with Sustain (specifically Tata Steel UK)
• In-Situ Tensile/Compression Total Scattering Measurements with ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
• X-ray Computer Tomography and Microstructural Characterisation of Additive Structures for Advanced Repair of Aeroengine Components with Rolls-Royce
• Understanding the Stress Corrosion Cracking Performance of Ultra-High Strength Aerospace Steels with Airbus
• Environmentally Assisted Cracking of High Strength Al Alloys – Transition from Initiation to Sustainable Cracking with Airbus