People
Dr Mohammed Azeem
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
![Azeem](/-/media/uol/images/people/profiles/a/azeem_profilepic_zoomed_2.png?cx=0.51&cy=0.49&cw=200&ch=200&hash=5F24B26D481BB12479A68C44D05470D1)
School/Department: Engineering, School of
Telephone: +44 (0)116 229 7422
Email: mohammed.azeem@leicester.ac.uk
Address: Michael Atiyah building Room 207 School of Engineering
Supervision
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 large loads. They are used in cyclic loading environments, such as the hubs of wind turbines and in high temperature regions of large diesel engines such as those used in maritime applications. The distribuition of graphite patterns and their morphology is key to damping capacity and fatigue life of cast iron. Mei is using high energy X-ray synchrotron sources to capture the formation, evolution and interaction of graphite nodules in cast iron alloys. Interaction of nodules and their co-growth with Fe dendrites is also coptured and is being quantified. The rich data on nucleation, buoyancy, growth and interactions of graphite patterns will provide a representative quantitative data which can be incorporated into solidificaiton models for large casting, which can sometimes weigh as much as 300 tonnes!!
Teaching
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