EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems - Challenges in Future Metals Manufacturing

金属材料的应用范围非常广泛，从日常用品，如铝饮料罐和铜线，到高度专业化的先进应用，如喷气发动机中的镍高温合金涡轮叶片和不锈钢核反应堆压力容器。尽管对金属材料及其制造的理解有所进步，但仍存在重大挑战。对先进金属系统的研究有助于我们了解材料的结构及其加工方式如何影响其特性和性能。这些知识对于我们开发应对当前能源、交通和可持续性挑战所需的材料至关重要。我们必须学会如何以可持续的方式使用地球资源，寻找稀有但具有重要战略意义的元素的替代品，并增加我们回收和再利用的材料的数量。这将在一定程度上通过开发使用更少能源和更少浪费的制造和生产过程，以及通过改进产品设计或开发和改进我们使用的材料来实现。为了提供这些新材料和工艺，行业需要更多的专家，他们对金属材料科学和工程有透彻的了解，再加上专业和技术领导技能，以应用这些专业知识。EPSRC先进金属系统博士培训中心将通过培训基础材料科学和工程方面的高水平物理科学和工程毕业生，为具有挑战性的金属材料和制造问题的博士水平研究做准备，从而增加目前短缺的冶金专家数量。通过与工业界合作，同时进行全面的专业技能培训计划，我们的毕业生将成为未来的研究领导者，知识工作者和行业领袖。

Metallic materials are used in an enormous range of applications, from everyday objects, such as aluminium drinks cans and copper wiring to highly-specialised, advanced applications such as nickel superalloy turbine blades in jet engines and stainless steel nuclear reactor pressure vessels. Despite advances in the understanding of metallic materials and their manufacture, significant challenges remain.Research in advanced metallic systems helps us to understand how the structure of a material and the way it is processed affects its properties and performance. This knowledge is essential for us to develop the materials needed to tackle current challenges in energy, transport and sustainability. We must learn how to use the earth's resources in a sustainable way, finding alternatives for rare but strategically important elements and increasing how much material we recycle and reuse. This will partly be achieved through developing manufacturing and production processes which use less energy and are less wasteful and through improving product designs or developing and improving the materials we use.In order to deliver these new materials and processes, industry requires a lot more specialists who have a thorough understanding of metallic materials science and engineering coupled with the professional and technical leadership skills to apply this expertise. The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems will increase the number of metallurgical specialists, currently in short supply, by training high level physical science and engineering graduates in fundamental materials science and engineering in preparation for doctoral level research on challenging metallic material and manufacturing problems. By working collaboratively with industry, while undertaking a comprehensive programme of professional skills training, our graduates will be equipped to be tomorrow's research leaders, knowledge workers and captains of industry.