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SalaryThe Department of MACE is the largest Department within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Manchester. Manchester was the birthplace of the engineering discipline, and MACE has its roots in the Institute of Mechanics founded in 1824. Today the Department hosts over 1300 undergraduate and 450 postgraduate students, delivers undergraduate programmes across Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and MSc programmes across four Disciplines of Education: Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering and Engineering Project Management. With 130 academic staff, 100 technical and administrative staff, and 300 postgraduate researchers, the Department is at the forefront of engineering education in the UK. More information about the Department can be found at https://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/
SINDRI (Synergistic utilisation of INformatics and Data centRic Integrity engineering) is a five year, ~£6M, EPSRC Prosperity Partnership between EDF and the Universities of Bristol, Manchester, and Imperial College. It started in May 2021, and is expected to be completed in mid-2026
Its vision is to reduce the cost of nuclear power generation through changes in the processes related to design, fabrication, and life-time assessment. SINDRI is exploiting the opportunity of digitally enabled materials to accelerate the implementation of novel designs, fabrication methods, and structural performance assessments. It will take advantage of new materials modelling frameworks and high-fidelity validation experiments to replace existing manual design and assessment processes with a virtual environment that uses open-source, inter-connected, multi-physics, modular models. These offer the opportunity of integration into EDFs Federated Digital Twin.
At Manchester, we are applying a combination of mechanism and length-scale appropriate modelling techniques and advanced materials characterisation to develop validated virtual descriptions of the entry into service state of weldments. These are then being utilized by other partners both to develop sub-continuum descriptions of structural and materials degradation, and to develop reduced, engineering models of the same processes for integration into EDFs digital environment.
The successful applicant will extend and apply the weld modelling activities for which Manchester are responsible. In particular:
(1) they will pick up the modelling framework developed for electron beam welding of SA508 GR 3 EB welds in previous projects, and already extended in SINDRI to multi-pass welds with weld filler, and apply it to large scale real-world weld geometries. They will also develop methods for efficient computation of these large structures;
(2) they will work closely with the relevant project investigators in the application of multi-component CFD, phase field, and cellular automata approaches to weldment modelleing;
(3) They will work closely with other project staff at Manchester in the development and application of advanced materials characterisation techniques used to validate the modelling framework;
(4) They will work closely with project staff responsible for application of machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques weld structural performance prediction.
(5) They will take part in project technical and management meetings, and disseminate their results to project partners.
(6) They will liaise closely with industry collaborators from EDF Energy to facilitate take up of new modelling techniques in industry
(7) They will also perform any necessary software development in a controlled and fully documented fashion, so the software may be readily and reliably used by others.
What you will get in return:
- Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
- Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
- Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
- Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
The School welcomes applications from all sections of the community and are committed to having a representative workforce. Across the School we hold Bronze and Silver Athena SWAN Awards, which recognises our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and particularly the advancement of womens careers in STEM. Videos and information on this can be found at https://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/about/women/ and https://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/about/women/
Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here
Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.
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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Professor Mike Smith
Email: mike.c.smith@manchester.ac.uk
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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.
