Dr Mohammed Azeem

PhD students

Aakifa Farookh: Aaakifa is working on undestanding hot cracking and cracking of large FCC grains during deformaiton in semi-solid regime. The motivation for Aakifa's work is derived from brittle-like cracking (Liquation Cracking) that was observed in large AlCu crystals at very low loads during indentation in semi-solid regime. Understanding the mechanisms of crackign in these regimes is pivotal for understanding refinement of microstrcture and cracking of large dendritic grains during thermo-mechanical processing at very high temperatures. As part of her PhD project, Aakifa has designed a high temperature mechanical deformaiton systems and she uses following advanced characterization techniques for her project; X-ray Computed Tomography at national and international synchrotron facilites, Diffraction Contrast Tomography (DCT), Electron Back Scatter Diffraction (EBSD) and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). 

Mei Ding: Cast irons are unique materials that have the ability to dampen the loads. They are used in cyclic loading environments, such as the hubs of wind turbines. The distribuition of these graphite patterns and their morphology is key to their damping capabilities and 

Mei's projects l

Currently, I teach following modules

EG2121 - Materials Processing

EG3422 - Aerospace Materials and Structures

Advanced Characterization techniques

In the past I have delivered following modules

EG1101 - Mechanical Engineering