Sustainable and Intelligent Advanced Manufacturing Research

Sustainable Machining

Professor Alborz Shokrani

Chair of Advanced Manufacturing

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tel: +44 (0)1225 386588
E-mail: A.Shokrani[at]bath.ac.uk
Publications:
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Research projects:
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Research and commerical collaboration
Please contact us if you are interested in collaboration or research in any of the following topics related to Advanced Manufacturing Processes and Systems: Postdoctoral Research Assistant opennings will be advertised in www.jobs.ac.uk

Meet the team

Postdoctoral Research Associate/Research Assistant:
Dr Joseph Betts: METALS: die-less Mesoscale Electroforging Technology for Additive Layer manufacturing of high performing alloys
Dr Rafael Roberto: Made Smarter Innovation: People-led Digitalisation
Dr Shamin Sadrafshari: SENSYCUT: Sensor Enabled Systems for Precision Cutting
Mr Ishrat Fairoz: I-Break: Landing Gear Industrial Breakthroughs
Mr Dylan Drew: SENSYCUT: Sensor Enabled Systems for Precision Cutting
PhD Researchers:
Mr Erkan Tur: Sustainable manufacturing of shearing blades
Mr Ishrat Fairoz: Digital twin for costing and environmental impact analysis of wire arc additive manufacturing
Mr Dylan Drew: Intelligent repair of large mechanical components
Past team members:
Dr Hakan Dogan, Izmir Institute of Technology
Dr Busra Karas, Hacettepe University

Research Graduates:
Dr Sam Costello: Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Large Components
Dr Samuel Omole: Machining of Refractory Metals for Plasma-facing Applications
Dr Joseph Betts: Machining of Additively Manufactured Nickel-based Superalloys
Dr Stephanie Hall: Machine learning for machining advanced materials
Dr Dan Bowen (PhD): Extending the range of die-less sheet forming processes
Dr Andrea De Bartolomeis (PhD): Cooling and lubrication technologies for machining advanced alloys
Dr Ihsan Al Samarrai (PhD): Hybrid Cooling/Lubricating Strategies for Machining Ti-6Al-4V in CNC End Milling
Mr Saeed Asghari (MPhil): Innovative Cutting Tool Design for Machining Advanced Engineering Materials
Mr David Whitton (MPhil): Design of a Cryogenic Coolant Inducer

Example MEng/MSc projects:
Wire arc additive manufacturing of bi-metals
Tribological assessment of nanolubricants
Deep learning for direct in-situ tool condition monitoring
Deep learning for in-situ surface roughness monitoring
Environmental impact assessment of closed die forging
Sustainable Machining: LCA of cuttin tool coatings
Sustainability assessment of cutting fluids in machining
Application of deep learning for predicting tool wear condition
Application of deep learning for machining signal processing
Design of drill bits for geothermal borehole drilling
Design and testing of a next generation hand held shearing machine
Direct recycling of aluminium chips through extrusion
Investigation of a new micro-scale 3D printing machine
In-situ tool wear monitoring system
An open source machine vision for tool condition monitoring
Design of a microscopy system for cutting
Sustainable machining: Life Cycle Assessment of Cutting Fluids in Machining
Sustainable machining: Energy Efficient Machining
Signal processing and deep learning for tool wear detection in machining
Computer vision for automated tool wear monitoring
Computational modelling of cutting Ti-6Al-4V
Machine design for cutting tomato
Activity based costing of additive manufacturing using discrete event simulation
Cutting fluid accelerator
Complex machining of plasma facing tungsten
Dynamic cost modelling for advanced machining
Thermoelectric materials for manufacturing processes
Machining of additively manufacturing titanium alloy
Energy consumption in machining operations
Design and manufacture of boot pillar for Team GB short track ice skating

Equipment:
Various 3 Axis machining centres
DMG Ultrasonic 5 Axis machining centre
Robotic wire arc additive manufacturing with cold metal transfer and plasma arc capabilities
Cryogenic/MQL/EMQL machining
Complete suit of machining performance analysis: Kistler force dynamometer and vibration sensor, acoustic emission, contact/non-contact profilometer, laser scanner, confocal distance sensor
Hammer test/vibration analysis
Turnmill machining centre
Material prep facilities
Various optical and scanning electron microscopes
Nano and micro indentation
Micro scratch test
Atomic force microscope
SPIKE smart tool holder
Alicona g6 3D optical profiler
Anton Paar pin on disk tribometer
High speed camera (10k fps)
Thermal imaging facilities


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